Terminator 2 Trading Cards from Unstoppable This is the second project I have had the pleasure of working on for Unstoppable Trading Cards. This trading card set is limited to 999 boxes, and might be sold out by now. To my knowledge, there has only been two other Terminator 2 trading card products which were […]
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This is a reposting of my trip to San Diego Comic Con in 2010 that I originally posted on my Pickled Peanuts blog. Every so often I will be reposting some of my older stuff, beginning with my trip to San Diego Comic Con. Doing this is also making me really yearn for going back.
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In January of 2017 the talented actor, Miguell Ferrer passed away. Recently, I believe a lot of people were familiar with him from his work on the TV show NCIS. For me it was his roles in the original Robocop movie, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Traffic, and his incredibly long list of TV roles including
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Waaaay back in 2008, while I was working on my Masters, I started a blog on Blogger called Pickled Peanuts. At the time, blogs were becoming the thing to have, and until the past few years I was not exactly savvy with website development. While working on a Masters it was also common to find something
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I’ve had a store on Etsy since 2011. I used it a little bit at first and sold a few custom sketch cards on it immediately but then switched my focus solely to Ebay. Lately, I’ve found Ebay prices to be going through the roof and my sales declining. Because of that I am starting
Topps 2017 Star Wars: Journey to The Last Jedi was released today, on Force Friday II! I created 70 regular sketch cards for this product and for the first time in a Star Wars trading card product, 25 shaped sketch cards. For more information on this product, please visit Cardboard Connection. Despite the product’s namesake,
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Recently I was contacted by a Star Wars card collector about a sketch card they pulled from a box of Topps Star Wars 40th Anniversary. They had a feeling it may have been drawn by me but there was no signature on the back. If you recall from an earlier blog post I wrote, the
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More Horror’ific Sketch Cards for Monsterwax! Second Round Monsterwax Shock Stories Sketch Cards! Recently I was invited back to do another round of 20 sketch cards for Monsterwax trading cards. A month or so ago I posted about my first round of sketch cards for this series, along with a little story of how this
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I was recently commissioned to create a large illustration of Chewbacca! The parameters were pretty wide open for what I could do, besides to have a good amount of detail on Chewy, include his bowcaster, and have an open place for the actor who played Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew, to sign it. Really fun piece
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In 2016 and now again in 2017, I have been gratefully asked to contribute artwork to a local writer’s group annual anthology. This book, called In Places Between, is produced by the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association (IFWA) and is a fantastic group of local published and aspiring authors. In 2016, I was invited to create
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Beginnings Back in 2014 I decided, while still being a full-time project archaeologist mind you, that it would be fun to make sketch cards for a trading card company. I have been an avid collector of trading cards since I was young, and the introduction of sketch cards into these products piqued my interest to
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I was recently commissioned to recreate a sketch card I had done for the first series of Rogue One by Topps. There was a mistake in the sketch cards delivered to me, so to correct that I was sent a few blank sketch cards after I had completed the project. With this project, I couldn’t
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Topps 2017 Star Wars Galactic Files Reborn released this week! I did a small batch of sketch cards for this product and have eight returns to sell (pictured below). One of the fun aspects of this set is that I am allowed to draw from all of the Star Wars universe, including all of the
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Earlier this year I started working for the first time with Unstoppable Cards. I had heard about this company through a fellow artist but had never seen their products before as they are located in the UK and only sell their trading cards online. I shot them off an application and the company dug my
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First time I’ve really tried colouring something in Photoshop. Normally when I use Photoshop it is for editing photos or my artwork. For my work at Long View Systems, I often use Photoshop for manipulating colours, removing portions of a photograph so it works better in a graphic, or to add visually appealing text to
I was one of the sketch card artists that worked on the Topps 2017 Star Wars: 40th Anniversary Set. What I didn’t know while working on the set was that the product would include buyback cards. These are previously released Star Wars cards, principally being cards from the original 1978 set. The cards were stamped
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Topps 2017 AMC The Walking Dead Season 6 Sketch Cards For the first time I had the opportunity to work on AMC’s The Walking Dead property by creating original sketch cards for Topps’ The Walking Dead Season 6 trading cards. I did a relatively small number of sketch cards for this project, with the
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My website is primarily for featuring the artwork I create. However, I also love collecting. Much of my art is within the realm of collecting as I create sketch cards and I love drawing fan art of athletes, superheroes or movie personalities. In this post, which will not be the sole entry in the category
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I was recently commissioned to create a traditionally illustrated portrait. The portrait is actually of a friend of mine. The stipulation was just that she wanted me to base the portrait on a particular photo she supplied me. Everything else was up to me. The Process The illustration was created on a fairly smooth 11×14″
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I was asked recently by a collector what sketch cards I had drawn for the Rogue One cards by Topps. It got me thinking and I ended up making a quick spread of all the sketch cards I did for Rogue One srs 1 & 2. I had also worked on Rogue One Mission Briefing
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