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 …
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 …
Upper-Deck Marvel Premier Sketch Cards are now out! This is a set that has been in waiting for a long time. I finished my artwork back in August of 2022 but I know some artists that worked on their sketch cards more than two years ago; crazy how backed up card companies still are from …
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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 …
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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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 …
Star Wars Masterwork from Topps is a premium set of trading cards that comes out every year, for the past four years. I’ve had the pleasure of creating sketch cards for the last three of these products, and I feel that this year’s is my best work yet (See previous year’s work here)! One of …
For the third year in a row I’ve been invited to create artwork for the Imaginative Fiction Writer’s Association’s annual anthology book, In Places Between: The Very Best Short Fiction of When Words Collide. This year I created the front cover illustration and the back cover graphics. I absolute love these projects and from what …
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 past summer I received a great opportunity from Topps to work on their Wacky Packages: 50th Anniversary trading cards. This is one of the first times I’ve had the opportunity to work on something very cartoony, and it was quickly followed up by a chance to work on Garbage Pail Kids, which I posted …
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Inktober is a challenge to artists of all levels to create one inked drawing a day for the entire month of October. There are other iterations of this challenge, such as Drawlloween, where the theme is based on Halloween imagery but the challenge is basically the same. The point of it all is to encourage …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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″ …
