Your Favourite Sketch Card

April 08, 2009, 08:03 PM

Beav

I got this card from Jim Cheung at the Boston Comic con this weekend. Very nice guy. I don't usually like to pay big cash for cards at shows, but I was very pleasantly surprised at this card. Great tonal variations.

April 09, 2009, 03:54 PM

Dave Fox

That's a great Spidey

April 11, 2009, 04:05 AM

sittin9duck

I have a few of my favourite sketches on display.

April 11, 2009, 04:48 AM

tangent

quote:
I have a few of my favourite sketches on display.

That's a really nice way of showing them (and some great sketches as well)

April 12, 2009, 12:05 PM

Beav

That's a cool display. They look like single screw downs, but how are they mounted in the frame?

April 12, 2009, 12:16 PM

Redemption

quote:
Originally posted by sittin9duck:
I have a few of my favourite sketches on display.

http://i155.photobucket.com/al...ploads/pictures1.jpg

It's a nice display, but I hope you're keeping them out of any high light sources as the picture shows. Markers are especially vulnerable to light. Art museums won't even let you take flash photography and that's even with oil paintings.

April 12, 2009, 03:16 PM

sittin9duck

My picture frame is out of any direct sun light and it has museum quolity glass which is uv protective. The cards are in screw downs and they sit in the matt which is the same thickness as the screw down.

April 12, 2009, 05:33 PM

Redemption

quote:
Originally posted by sittin9duck:
My picture frame is out of any direct sun light and it has museum quolity glass which is uv protective. The cards are in screw downs and they sit in the matt which is the same thickness as the screw down.

Wow... that must be a thick matt! lol

Was it terribly expensive to frame?

April 12, 2009, 06:38 PM

sittin9duck

quote:
Originally posted by Redemption:
quote:
Originally posted by sittin9duck:
My picture frame is out of any direct sun light and it has museum quolity glass which is uv protective. The cards are in screw downs and they sit in the matt which is the same thickness as the screw down.

Wow... that must be a thick matt! lol

Was it terribly expensive to frame?

It was expensive £120 most of which was the glass £80 but it was worth it to be able to display the cards. The matt's are acid free and the back of the frame is removable so I can change the cards around.

April 12, 2009, 07:39 PM

Redemption

quote:
Originally posted by sittin9duck:

It was expensive £120 most of which was the glass £80 but it was worth it to be able to display the cards. The matt's are acid free and the back of the frame is removable so I can change the cards around.

Well, that cost is expected with quality framing. I just wish I had enough quality sketches to have the excuse to spend that much.

April 24, 2009, 10:58 AM

Boldlygone

This card arrived this morning. I am hoping to get all the new Star trek crew done.

Spock as playd by Zachery Quinto

The artist is Shane McCormack

April 24, 2009, 02:38 PM

DaveSB

Thats a great card Boldlygone...

April 26, 2009, 04:07 PM

make-mine-marvel

quote:
Originally posted by Beav:
I got this card from Jim Cheung at the Boston Comic con this weekend. Very nice guy. I don't usually like to pay big cash for cards at shows, but I was very pleasantly surprised at this card. Great tonal variations.

Was it pre-drawn or commissioned?
And what is "big bucks" for a PSC? $30+ ??

April 27, 2009, 09:02 AM

AJJ

My latest Dexter from Pennycanpaint over on Scoundrel:

I love the look of this card, so different from any of my other Dexter's.

May 03, 2009, 08:56 PM

Beav

quote:
Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
quote:
Originally posted by Beav:
I got this card from Jim Cheung at the Boston Comic con this weekend. Very nice guy. I don't usually like to pay big cash for cards at shows, but I was very pleasantly surprised at this card. Great tonal variations.

Was it pre-drawn or commissioned?
And what is "big bucks" for a PSC? $30+ ??

I brought my own blank cards and after finding out that his 9 x 12 convention art was $225, I asked about a Spidey sketch card and he said $30, and I said yeah. I can only imagine how great the larger size would have looked. When I say big cash, what I mean is in the show venue the quality is usually less than a mail commission, so I am always leary that I won't get what I paid for. Not this time.

May 03, 2009, 10:21 PM

Electrawoman Cards f/k/a jane

My new favorite, pulled this weekend from a box I picked up at Allentown:

May 04, 2009, 01:41 AM

spidergoblin

Excellant sketch Jane...one of my fav characters

May 04, 2009, 05:28 AM

MvG

Nice Ironfist Jane! Congrats!

May 04, 2009, 06:58 PM

make-mine-marvel

quote:
Originally posted by Beav:
quote:
Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Beav:
I got this card from Jim Cheung at the Boston Comic con this weekend. Very nice guy. I don't usually like to pay big cash for cards at shows, but I was very pleasantly surprised at this card. Great tonal variations.

Was it pre-drawn or commissioned?
And what is "big bucks" for a PSC? $30+ ??

I brought my own blank cards and after finding out that his 9 x 12 convention art was $225, I asked about a Spidey sketch card and he said $30, and I said yeah. I can only imagine how great the larger size would have looked. When I say big cash, what I mean is in the show venue the quality is usually less than a mail commission, so I am always leary that I won't get what I paid for. Not this time.

Yup - I've paid more, and gotten less ... LOL.

The card stock looks great, is that BLP?