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Description These are sketch cards done for Topps trading card company for the Star Wars 30th Anniversary card set. They commission artists do do hand illustrated cards that are then randomly packed in with the trading cards so customers have the chance to pull an original peice of artwork when they buy packs of cards. I was only able to do 50 cards due to other work commitments so the odds of pulling one of my cards is 1:9800+ packs but you could still pull an original piece of artwork from any of the other 2 dozen artists that contributed sketch cards including Adam Hughes, Phil Noto, Cat Staggs, and Allison Sohn. All in all, your odds of pulling a sketch card from any random artist comes to about 1:150 packs.

All my cards were drawn at about 2.5X3.5 inches(roughly the size of a baseball card) using traditional media including pencil, ink, copic markers, prismacolor, and acrylic paint. Each card took between 15 and 45 minutes respectively.

Hope you dig!
-Mark
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Comments: 131

monstermo44 [2009-11-14 19:04:42 +0000 UTC]

BROOKS! BROOKS!

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Verdandi36 [2008-08-29 06:09:09 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Very retro style... it works perfectly. You have quite a range of talent.

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RCarter [2008-05-11 23:22:01 +0000 UTC]

excellent color work and drawing, do u contact the company to do the cards or do they contact u?

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Colononai [2008-04-24 16:13:34 +0000 UTC]

hiya! I featured your ATCs in my news article: [link] If there is a problem with this, please let me know! ^_^

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TheodenN [2008-04-20 22:35:17 +0000 UTC]

My goodness....

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Kalamari [2008-03-12 19:27:58 +0000 UTC]

amazing work...the details just blow me away dude.

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zoomzoom [2007-09-17 06:43:20 +0000 UTC]

haha... well done.. salute!

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Lacedelli [2007-09-03 20:59:55 +0000 UTC]

your star wars work is very good!

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NaVaRski [2007-08-24 21:39:06 +0000 UTC]

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infodigiusa [2007-08-20 16:02:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow and you even did the catina band too!! Amazingly beautiful!! Each one of them!! Awesome job!!

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twincastX [2007-08-19 22:31:30 +0000 UTC]

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Ivory-Shadows [2007-08-18 18:56:09 +0000 UTC]

Woah looks cool.

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Spritekins [2007-08-16 20:53:06 +0000 UTC]

Fricken Sweet!

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muriloVM [2007-08-16 01:44:19 +0000 UTC]

verrrrryyy cool!!!

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20003679 [2007-08-14 00:23:56 +0000 UTC]

WOW

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deadlydaverave [2007-08-10 08:33:37 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work as always!

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Dallmajeris [2007-08-09 22:06:11 +0000 UTC]

wheres admiral ackbar? "its a trap!" xD

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Vegeta197 [2007-08-07 05:44:12 +0000 UTC]

who dosn't like starwars....great work

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ReiHime544 [2007-08-07 02:00:53 +0000 UTC]

Those are so cool! I may have to start getting Star Wars TCG boosters just to see if I get one. (Fat chance. I know, right?) Very awesome though. I am a big Star Wars fan, and I think you really did the characters and stuff justice in these cards. Definitely a fave, like mose of the rest of your gallery XD

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DavisJes [2007-08-07 00:55:59 +0000 UTC]

aweasome work

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ChiBi-LoTuS [2007-08-06 10:03:49 +0000 UTC]

Woooooooow, im painting now so long with copics and still dont have such skill to use them Oo
Very cool, very cool!
Did you actually do the battle ships with copics too?
*cantStopStarring*

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Mab87 [2007-08-05 19:36:18 +0000 UTC]

great work, the colloring on the black and white ones looks awasome

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AxD [2007-08-05 07:54:54 +0000 UTC]

So, the odds of pulling out all four of those bitching stormtroopers-on-tatooine cards is approximately thirty nine thousand nine hundred twenty to one?

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diablo2003 In reply to AxD [2007-08-05 23:53:24 +0000 UTC]

actually, even higher because you have to take into account the number of other cards i did so it's not just trying to pull those 4 cards but also trying to avoid the other 46. Too tired to do the math but it's A LOT!!!

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AxD In reply to diablo2003 [2007-08-06 00:03:33 +0000 UTC]

Possibly even worse odds than successfully navigating an asteroid field...

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Talec [2007-08-04 20:25:08 +0000 UTC]

Awesome~ I love card art.

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mike313 [2007-08-04 20:06:46 +0000 UTC]

WHOA....very very cool for sure, powerful work as always and simply flawless..

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Dairan-chan [2007-08-04 18:58:49 +0000 UTC]

You have all sorts of awesome skills.

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ngoziu [2007-08-04 16:12:28 +0000 UTC]

Oh, that is so awesome!

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zochiketzali [2007-08-04 03:30:19 +0000 UTC]

I remember seeing artists drawing these, I wandered if they where a set. Very cool

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davethephotoguy [2007-08-03 19:16:48 +0000 UTC]

holy cow very nice job.great detail.

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Serenya [2007-08-03 16:35:52 +0000 UTC]

Xcellent !! I love it !!!

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sinbad269 [2007-08-03 15:19:56 +0000 UTC]

nice one mate, good work

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Childe-Of-Fyre [2007-08-03 04:59:23 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful illustrations... seriously. Very nice work here.

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RaptorArts [2007-08-03 04:53:14 +0000 UTC]

Awesome illustrations! I hope to get them all someday cause I love star wars but obviously thats a bit unrealistic but still one can hope

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sAUcEbOy [2007-08-03 02:52:31 +0000 UTC]

those are so hot man! hey were you at heroes this year?

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Epe [2007-08-03 02:49:34 +0000 UTC]

Awesome.

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contebosch [2007-08-03 02:47:08 +0000 UTC]

F'N Hot

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dfridolfs [2007-08-03 02:19:42 +0000 UTC]

Your art has come a looooong way since the old Wizard board days. You actually capture likenesses very well. Can't believe these were done in under an hour. Keep it up man.

- D

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Masteronin [2007-08-03 02:06:32 +0000 UTC]

Holy crap man, NICE!!!

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SamWolk [2007-08-03 00:41:51 +0000 UTC]

Sweeeet! I've seen a bunch of Cat's sketch cards. They're all amazing, as are yours.

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NightLight3 [2007-08-03 00:10:51 +0000 UTC]

Haha, really good angles and scenes from the movies. These cards are really well done, I espeically like the space cruiser ones. I can apprieciate style and these cards sure have it! Well done man once again, its been a while since I've seen some good Star Wars Illustrations, wtg.

-James.

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hawkeye [2007-08-02 22:58:01 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous pieces, thank you so much for posting them! I really love the obi-wan and han. The ships are outstanding!

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ryvir [2007-08-02 20:45:21 +0000 UTC]

These rock. Awesome work. I love your art!

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Raven207b [2007-08-02 20:21:30 +0000 UTC]

Great work!

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centaurfreak [2007-08-02 20:03:54 +0000 UTC]

there is nothing that can be said about these that will do them justice

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De3pBl4ck [2007-08-02 19:57:01 +0000 UTC]

It's Star Wars, it has Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Han Solo, and last but not least, Luke Skywalker.
Instant

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cheddarpaladin [2007-08-02 19:53:15 +0000 UTC]

50 pieces of awesomeness.

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WildJenmonster [2007-08-02 19:41:50 +0000 UTC]

Awesome beyond words.

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ryfvs [2007-08-02 19:34:11 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant job!
I love the skin tones and the metallic shines.
Absolutely beautiful traditional work here

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