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Originally posted by Noah Albrecht:
Incarnadine,

I agree this wasn't one of my best. Due to tight deadlines, and the fact that Topps needed as many cards as we could do in a short amount of time, this unfortunately meant less time spent on each card. This is my very first set. I'm not apologizing, as I agree with you, this one suffered the deadline crunch. I'm going to be on for Season 2, and I promise that those cards will be of much higher quality. Thanks for being honest!

Cheers, N

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Originally posted by Incarnadine:
I saw this sketch and it has me shaking my head. At first I thought maybe it was a joke, I mean after seeing some of the sketches that were rejected how could this pass approval? Anyone recognize the signature?

It's nice to see an artist who can admit that for whatever reason the cards aren't up their own personal standards. I'm sure no artist likes to see their cards among the lowest selling from a set, professional pride and healthy competition should be powerful motivators. I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do with series 2. Good luck with that set.

Thanks Incarnadine, much appreciated! ^_^

Noah,

I have one of your Noah Bennets, and am happy with it. (I bought it; I didn't pull it).

I'd love to see what you can do for the next set.

I'm sure you aren't the first artist who got more cards than they should have had (meaning you were hurried to meet the deadline).
(heck, I know of at least 2 others that I'd bet $ on for this set, that they were hurried w/ too many to do)

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(heck, I know of at least 2 others that I'd bet $ on for this set, that they were hurried w/ too many to do)

hmmm...I bet their initials are GG??? Although I did get a niki from him that was spectacular

Having looked at the above sketch, lmao it would have taken longer to sign it than draw it,
at least the signature is recognisable

Hey guys! I never got around to sharing any scans here, but (BIG) thanks to Incarnadine ( ) y'all got see a sampling of a few of the pack-inserted sketches earlier in the thread. Really appreciated the great feedback, so thank you!! I posted the following on 'another' forum, but figured I'd post here as well. (This is by no means an advertisement, as I shy away from selling any of my returned cards privately).

A little background info for anyone interested (if not, skip down to the scans! ). Ultimately I ended up with nine returned cards instead of the usual "six", due to an extended (and unexpected) engagement with these little monsters! I know the collectors feel somewhat "cheated" when an artist puts their best work into their returned cards, leaving the pack-inserted sketches a little less desirable (not saying this is the case for every artist, but I'm going by what I've read on various forums regarding this subject). Having said that, hopefully you guys will forgive me for only achieving "full color" on these nine cards. My intention was to have a colored box in the middle, with a greyscale outside border for each image. Not anticipating an additional three cards, I wanted to make certain that all nine cards followed the same format (in hopes that there would be no distinction between those 3 and the original 6). The references weren't exactly what I wanted to use, but I was falling way behind and completed the last of the initial six an hour before the cards were shipped back to Topps. The last three (from wave two) I had a little more time with, but I had to pick refs of images I used in the first wave that were already approved. Otherwise I'd have picked cards like the "autopsy Claire", "nuclear Sylar", "Niki / Jessica mirrored" or "nuclear Peter" as my returned cards.

(and hopefully this all makes sense as I'm typing this pretty quickly!! )

In any event, I wasn't happy with my first round of scans on these, so I wanted to wait until I actually got them back in my possession to do some re-scanning:



To be completely honest, I really think some of my pack-inserted sketches turned out much better than a few of these, but oh well... I suck, what can I say?!

sean

They are stunning cards - simply stunning

If you are not that keen I would look after them
for you

mark

Sean... those are OUTSTANDING! I was lucky enough to pull one of your pack-inserted Claire sketches.

OMG!!! Beautiful, fantastic & amazing sketches Sean!!! I'll only get three boxes, but I really hope to pull one of your sketches!

I like most of those, well done.

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Originally posted by SeanPatrickPence:

To be completely honest, I really think some of my pack-inserted sketches turned out much better than a few of these, but oh well... I suck, what can I say?!

Now that's the understatement of the year! You're HORRIBLE!

haha

anyways, those are INCREDIBLE sketches! Can't believe you were able to capture the essence of all the characters in a 2.5x3.5 space!

Great job SP!

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Originally posted by SeanPatrickPence:


In any event, I wasn't happy with my first round of scans on these, so I wanted to wait until I actually got them back in my possession to do some re-scanning:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l226/seanscapes/HEROES9backX.jpg

Those are fantastic drawings!

Are they done in marker & color pencils?

I want one of them cards its not fair I havent even had my cases :-(

Claire is my fave

WOW!! Thanks for the kind words guys!! Really appreciate the feedback!! Many thanks Mark, tsmeltzer, Cee_Jay, wolfie, dmc913, Redemption & Angeldustz!!!

Y'all are really TOO kind!! Oh and Redemption: yes, these are marker, colored pencil and black ink... and a touch of white paint for highlights.

Those compliments are absolutely well deserved Sean. You are an incredible sketch artist. One of the best in my opinion with a constant quality in your work. I wish I had the money to buy this one from the bay:



Well, I can always buy another box of Heroes and try to pull one! Keep up the good job!!

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Originally posted by MvG:
Those compliments are absolutely well deserved Sean. You are an incredible sketch artist. One of the best in my opinion with a constant quality in your work. I wish I had the money to buy this one from the bay:

Ditto!

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Originally posted by MvG:
Those compliments are absolutely well deserved Sean. You are an incredible sketch artist. One of the best in my opinion with a constant quality in your work. I wish I had the money to buy this one from the bay:

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Love that!
I watched a colored one of her go for a high price. I don't remember who the artist was, though. These are the types of artists I try to get sketches from as the artwork is just amazing.
My case should be here next week...hopefully I'll get something of that quality in mine

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Awesome work on all your cards Sean! I don't recall ever seeing one of your cards that I wasn't floored by.

... I keep hitting quote instead of edit then inadvertantly make yet another reply.