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Bowthorpe — Cap Scarlet 50th anniv sketch cards

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Published: 2018-02-19 13:12:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 694; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 0
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Description These are the 15 sketch cards I contributed to the "Captain Scarlet 50th Anniversary" set for Unstoppable cards.

Completed using pencil, ink and copic marker pen.
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Bowthorpe [2018-02-20 09:07:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the comments... 

This is the second set I've done for Unstoppable Cards, the previous one is also in my gallery.  In that set I did cards featuring Blue and SPVs so wanted to make sure I included some different things this time round like the hovercraft and Capt Magenta (with an SPV behind him).

Because I'm one of many artists contributing images (and the same reference material on the internet is available to all artists), the difficulty is trying to do images that are original and we don't end with 30 artists sending in 30 of the same picture of Captain Scarlet or Destiny Angel.  The three rules I follow are -

Make it bright
Make it colourful
Make it interesting

BTW, I like the SPVs too, especially the tank tracks at the back, so maybe I'll feature some on my artist proof cards...

SPECTRUM IS GREEN!!

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JasonMasters [2018-02-20 04:28:57 +0000 UTC]

I'm just sorry you didn't include Captain Blue, Captain Scarlet's "bestie" and often partner in the original story.

And... no SPV?  (Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle)  They were also iconic to the series.  (I still remember a phrase from one of the Captain Scarlet novels, after a power plant blew up, where Scarlet enquires about the condition of the SPV which he and Blue arrived in, and Blue replies "scorched like a piece of forgotten toast" and continues that he had to wait for it to cool down before he could use it to search for Scarlet, who was injured in the explosion but survived because of his "retro-metabolism" ability)

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