3 box break Leaf Masterworks..

[Pinbreaker]

So I decided to grab a few boxes of this.. Here are the cards..
(not in any order)

Fun rip once again..

 

[jrosales]

You pulled the Jose Canseco that I drew

 

[Pinbreaker]

Looks like you used stippling to do it..

Great job..

 

[Hawk8]

As I mentioned in the MT a little earlier this morning, I think the Jose Canseco is the best looking card of the bunch, looks very good in my opinion. If I was a Canseco collector I would be proud to own that card. On the other hand I don't understand why the Rickey Henderson artist did not put a logo on that card with the free reign that the artist had over the design of these cards.

 

[jrosales]

Thanks for the compliments guys! I did indeed use stippling to render Canseco's likeness. In fact, I used stippling for all 100 cards I did for this release (stippling is my preferred method of artwork).

 

[Buynhisellnlow]

That Canseco is a great looking card - congrats.

 

[ChasHawk]

The Canseco is a great card. Some look really generic though for an all 1/1 release.

The Rick Flair looks like someone else to me...lol

Bobby Heenan maybe?

 

[SteelBrad]

Beautiful cards!

 

[Hawk8]

The Canseco is a great card. Some look really generic though for an all 1/1 release.

The Rick Flair looks like someone else to me...lol

Bobby Heenan maybe?

I agree, if I was doing a Ric Flair for a 1/1 release product it wold have been in a robe in the middle of the ring, but that's just me and I am no artist.

 

[DaleMurphyCollector]

Ric Flair kind of looks like Dusty Rhodes.
I hope someone drew a Flair with bleach blonde hair with blood running through it.

 

[BowmanChromeAddict]

I agree, if I was doing a Ric Flair for a 1/1 release product it wold have been in a robe in the middle of the ring, but that's just me and I am no artist.

Keep in mind that it's a 1/1 because of the artwork, not because it's the only Ric Flair in the set. There could very well be a drawing of Flair as you described in this set.

 

[ChasHawk]

Keep in mind that it's a 1/1 because of the artwork, not because it's the only Ric Flair in the set. There could very well be a drawing of Flair as you described in this set.

And there are. I have seen them.

My point was, I don't think that was even drawn from a pic of Rick Flair.

 

[ballerskrip]

The Canseco is a great card. Some look really generic though for an all 1/1 release.

The Rick Flair looks like someone else to me...lol

Bobby Heenan maybe?

EXACTLY what I thought!!!!

 

[trauty]

Yeah, I thought it was Bobby the Brain Heenan until I looked at the comments. I don't recall Flair ever looking like that (and as good as the Henderson likeness is, I'm wondering if the photo wasn't misidentified).

 

[nappyd]

Did they have to make Rickey look so old?

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[Lars]

Rickey looks almost like Willie Mays and I'm not quite sure Canseco looks like Canseco on his card [no offense to the sketch artist].

 

[MansGame]

Canseco is a great pull with some hard core collectors of his stuff but not totally on board with the look of the actual card

I think the Henderson looks odd but think that was a good pull for an auto

Congrats!

 

[jrosales]

I'm not quite sure Canseco looks like Canseco on his card [no offense to the sketch artist].

None taken

Canseco is a great pull with some hard core collectors of his stuff but not totally on board with the look of the actual card

I admit I took a little bit of a gamble with the layout.

 

[bigunitcards]

Thanks for the compliments guys! I did indeed use stippling to render Canseco's likeness. In fact, I used stippling for all 100 cards I did for this release (stippling is my preferred method of artwork).

I am bidding on your commission sketch auction on eBay, good luck to me! Can I ask how you selected the images you used to draw those 100 cards? Also how long does it take you to create a sketch on average? Just curiosity questions.

 

[jrosales]

I am bidding on your commission sketch auction on eBay, good luck to me! Can I ask how you selected the images you used to draw those 100 cards? Also how long does it take you to create a sketch on average? Just curiosity questions.

Good luck, I hope you win it! Am I to guess that you'd request a Randy Johnson if you win it?

As for how I selected my images...Leaf gave us checklists with the athletes they wanted us to draw. It was up to us to select the images that we wanted to recreate. The ones I selected were those that just 'spoke to me', so to speak. For instance, I'm a big Rangers fan, and I thought it would be cool to draw Canseco as a Ranger. I mostly tried to stick to portraying the athletes with the teams on which they gained their fame.

As for time, it varied. Most of them took between 2 and 4 hours to complete each. These were some of my more intricate ones. I originally agreed to do 50 cards for Leaf, but I took on 50 more when one of the other artists dropped off the set. For some of these additional 50, I had to work faster because of the time crunch. Most of my cards for these last 50 took 2-3 hours, but some took under an hour. The important thing I tried to adhere to was to not let the quality of my work suffer.