Upper-Deck Wandavision The 2023 Upper-Deck Wandavision trading cards were released this week and it’s the first in what will be many new Marvel sets that I’ve worked on coming out in 2023. Unlike other sets I’ve work on, like Star Wars for example, the MCU trading card sets from Upper-Deck do not feature artwork based […]
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For the fifth time I’ve had the pleasure of seeing one of my illustrations included in an artbook from Printed in Blood. These are high quality books, with a hardcover and glossy pages filled with a ton of art that ranges in styles and mediums. My illustration was inspired by the Hannibal Netflix tv show,
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The original paintings for the Topps MLB Gallery cards are packaged in silver foil packs and randomly inserted into the boxes. Recently, two collectors have contacted me to let me know they found one of my paintings in those silver packs! These paintings (Kershaw and Olson) are now framed and hanging on their walls! I
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Drawing a sketch card can be as simple or as complicated as you would like it to be. Sketch cards from the 90s and into the 2000’s were pretty simple, with most being quick pencil sketches and to this day a lot of artists still make their cards like this. There’s no wrong way to
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Stranger Things Trading Cards from Topps has come in four sets -Season 1, 2, Welcome to the Upside Down, and an online exclusive Autograph Collection. Recently Topps and Zero Cool have created a new set for Season 4 but this and the previous online exclusive sets did not include sketch cards. I’m a huge fan
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Topps 2021 Star Wars Galaxy Chrome trading cards released this week and is highlighted by the reissuing of artwork previously used in the Galaxy line of trading card sets from Topps but this time given a “chrome” treatment. As for my contribution to this set, I created 35 full colour sketch cards that were randomly
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Personally I’m not a big car guy. I’ve always liked the look of classic cars and high end sports cars but I’ve never been all that knowledgeable about them. I don’t know the details or really even the names of this or that type of car, but I have always liked the look of the
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Topps 2021 MLB Museum Collection trading cards is a higher end baseball card product. It has been around for quite a few years and for the past four years I have been contributing artwork to the product. This artwork comes in the form of sketch cards but the cards I work on are thicker than
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Trading card artwork of the top players in MLB for the 2020 Topps Update card set.
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Old Man Like Ron sketch cards are easily the strangest but also one of the funnest trading card projects I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a part of. The trading card set is based off the popular Youtube series, Old Man Like Ron. The show is very NSFW as it follows the crazy adventures
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Late last year I had the fantastic opportunity to create sketch cards for the 2018 Baseball Series 1 from Topps. I still need to post examples of my artwork from that set here but I’ve been so darn busy! Case in point, Series 2 from the 2018 Topps Baseball set was released about a month
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My seventeenth Star Wars trading card set I’ve had the privilege to create sketch cards for has just been released! This set was a lot of fun because I started working on it after the movie had come out in theatres, meaning I had access to a lot more imagery. I had also already seen
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Topps 2018 Solo trading cards is the sixteenth Star Wars project I’ve had the pleasure of being on! By the end of this year I might be at 20 total Star Wars projects, and definitely well over 20 projects for Topps in all! For this project, the only reference material I had to work from
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Topps 2018 The Walking Dead: Road to Alexandria is the fourth Walking Dead trading card set I’ve had the pleasure of working on! I am a huge fan of the TV show and greatly enjoy drawing some of my favourite and most hated characters from the show. This time around, the Road to Alexandria set
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Recently I wanted to create a graphic that would contain information on a single product or event. My initial idea was that the graphic would be simple and based off a paper filing system card. These cards have a small part at the top that juts upwards. This part is visible when all the cards
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Topps 2018 Star Wars: A New Hope Black and White Sketch Cards is a new trading card set that features imagery strictly from the first Star Wars movie (read more about the set here). For my part, I created 35 unique sketch cards but chose to do them all in colour. I somewhat wish I
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Topps 2018 UFC Museum Collection was the first sports set I’ve had the opportunity to work on for Topps. For this project, I created 40 unique sketch cards that featured some of the top fighters in the UFC. In addition to the 40 sketch cards I created, I also created five additional cards I kept
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These past few weeks I’ve been playing catch-up on pretty much everything, including posting on my website. One thing I’ve been meaning to post about is that I was interviewed twice recently about my sketch card artwork. I was both surprised and flattered that I was asked for such interviews. I was also happy that
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Since the new year I’ve been playing with SketchUp. This software allows one to create 3D models that can be used in videos, 3D printings, and print or digital designs. The program has been used in a number of fields, most notably architecture for designing homes and their surroundings. One of the nice things about
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I recently created an infographic for a client. The concept was that he needed to display time passing in three phases with some explanatory text next to each phase. As per my design process, I sketched out a few initial ideas on scrap paper and then began turning those doodles into digital designs through Illustrator
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