Mystery Sketch Card Packs Each pack will include ONE hand-drawn sketch card. Some will have personal sketch cards and some will have official Artist Proof Sketch Cards. You also have an option to purchase TWO packages at a discounted price! Just select the drop down option for if you’d like 1 or 2 packs and …
Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending some time working on painting personal sketch cards. All of these are on fan art cards with printed designs on the front and back. Most of these have a 1980’s theme besides one of Doctor Who that was done on a a Science Fiction from the Cosmos …
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 …
Upper Deck Sketch Cards I’ve created Upper-Deck Sketch Cards on a few different types of projects. I’ve worked on various Marvel Comics sets, sets based off movies like Aliens or TV shows like Firefly, and sets that aren’t based on any properties. This 2023 Upper-Deck Cosmic set is one of those projects not associated with …
Baseball Autographs on Original Artwork Topps 2023 Museum Collection baseball is a trading card set produced every year and like last year it included more than just the regular, run-of-the-mill baseball cards; it also includes baseball autographs on sketch cards! I had the opportunity to do some last year and this year I again did …
Doctor Who Art I love Doctor Who. Always have. I’ve always also loved Aliens, Star Wars, Star Trek, Predator, Blade Runner… OK you probably guessed a theme of much of what I’ve always loved – Science Fiction. With Doctor Who, and I’m going to date myself here, my first doctor was Tom Baker. Perhaps I’m …
Who are the Artists that Created the Topps 2023 Museum Collection Canvas Reprint Card Imagery? I’m one of the artists that has artwork included in this year’s Topps 2023 Museum Collection Canvas Collection! There are twelve cards that feature my artwork, all shown in the carrossel. The players are Marcus Semien, Riley Greene, Brett Baty, …
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 …
Topps 2023 MLB series 1 hit store shelves recently and I had the opportunity to contribute some artwork for the set. Each illustration I made was an original drawing that was inserted into a random pack. As this is one of the more widely available baseball sets Topps makes, being sold at hobby and retail …
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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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 …
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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The final Star Wars trading card set for the year released this week and it wouldn’t be 2020 if there wasn’t at least one little mishap! In this case there are two. The first is that the set was delayed a number of times and it’s now a little crazy for me to look at …
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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 …
Last year I had the opportunity to contribute illustrations to the Topps 2019 Gallery Baseball set. This artwork was used for the insert set called Impressionists and there were 30 cards in all. As per most insert sets, the cards were not found in every pack but instead 1 in every 88 or so packs …
Non-Sports Magazine is published once every two months and every couple of issues they post a list of ‘hot’ artists. It’s unclear as to how they create this list but some artists figure it’s based off online sales of sketch cards. Either way they do it, it’s pretty neat when you find out that you’re …
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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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