How Much Are Sketch Cards Worth? I’ve worked on sketch cards for a long time and a common thing I see asked is “how much should I sell my artist proof sketch cards for”? I also see collectors ask why artists charge what they charge and how much are sketch cards worth? I thought I’d …
Do You Know About Sketch Cards? I’ve been creating sketch cards for licensed trading card companies for quite a few years now; checkout my trading card artwork page to see all the projects I’ve worked on. Sketch cards predate my work on them by a few decades, and even though I’ve been drawing and collecting …
Recently, one of the biggest collectors of sketch cards I know and easily the most knowledgable person of the artform I know, Chris Mixer, asked me a few questions about being a sketch card artist. He posted that interview on his website and today I’m excited to share my interview with him here! A Conversation with a …
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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 …
On a Facebook Star Wars fan page, I was recently asked to contribute to their ongoing “getting to know Star Wars sketch card artists” posts. These go up roughly once a week, and it is spearheaded by Ashley Marsh who is a fabulous artist herself. As the questions she posed me and the responses I gave …
Last month I posted a conversation I had with trading card collector Chris Mixer and today I am posting one with fellow trading card artist, Jim Dickson. Both Jim and myself hail from Canada and met on social media channels through our mutual line of work. We’ve both actively shared one another’s work on Twitter and …
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I wanted to share a few commissions I completed for people over the past few months. It’s a mix of sports and pop culture, and all of it was bigger than the artwork I do for trading card projects! Colby Cave Commission This was a 9×12″ mixed media commission of the late hockey player Colby …
A few months ago I posted about how an illustration I created would be included in a Ghostbusters Artbook from Printed in Blood. Now I can share with you the illustration I created for it as the book has just been released! THE DESIGN The illustration was hand drawn and painted with some digital adjustments. I used …
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Yeah, not sure how much I buy into my own title here. That’s not to say I don’t like what I created. Just that I’m not sold on how ‘solid’ of a layout design it is. In all I believe I spent about 1-2 hours making this design, with the majority of the time spent …
This is the third segment of my recounting my trip to San Diego Comic Con in 2010. For the second segment, go here, and for the first segment, go here. San Diego Comic Con 2010: Episode III With the bags unpacked we ventured out from our hotel. We took a stroll down to the Gaslamp …
This is my second post that recounts my trip to San Diego Comic Con back in 2010. Go here to read the first post. San Diego Comic Con 2010: Episode II The week before we left for San Diego I was on another work trip. This one lasted about a week and a half and …
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. …
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 …
Star Wars Day: May the Fourth Be With You! I love it when companies utilize fun ‘holidays’ in ways that engage the customers. Not for the sole purpose of selling stuff (though I have done that with my art!) but to just provide a positive and fun atmosphere for their customers. Doing so fosters a …
I absolutely LOVE the Aliens movies. All of them. Full stop. As a kid growing up in the 80’s, my parents allowed me to watch a lot of movies. My dad in particular let me see movies that perhaps most kids my age shouldn’t have been allowed to see, such as Hell Raiser, Pumpkin Head, …
