Category Archives: Artist Trading Cards

Fantastical Geishas

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Here is a set of geishas that I just completed for a personal trade. The theme is Fantastical Geishas. I know that geisha are traditionally masters of art, poetry and other arts of the senses. However, I am a big fan of Asian Cinema, and one theme that I really enjoy is the strong heroine. I know that these are frequent in Chinese films such as Fong Sai Yuk (one of my all time favorite movies) and The Bride with White Hair and any number of Michele Yeoh movies. Geisha are Japanese, and not Chinese and I realize that, but I extended the theme for these cards because I like it.

Fight in the Clouds

Fight in the Clouds ATC

Fight in the Clouds ATC

This card is more of a sprawling fantasy epic. With a magical geisha facing off against a samurai soaring through the air to her. I am really liking the way that the four magical streaks from her eyes came out.

Geisha Nouveau

Geisha Nouveau ATC

Geisha Nouveau ATC

I’ve always been a fan of Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau, here I placed a geisha into a mucha like setting.

Riding the Waves

Riding the Waves ATC

Riding the Waves ATC

So I am currently on a tentacle kick as you may have seen on Etsy with my tentacle beast collection. I wanted to incorporate tentacles into one of the geisha pictures. here we see a geisha riding on tentacles across the ocean. The background looks siimilar to Hokusai’s the great wave.

Fong Sai Yuk

Not geisha, still awesome Jet Li.

Another Farscape ATC Swap

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There is one show that I need to watch more of. Well there are a sad few. Touch is one that I found and enjoyed recently as is Sherlock. The show that I mean is Farscape. It is a thoroughly enjoyable show and while I have watched the first 1.5 seasons of so, I need to find and watch the remaining episodes. This isn’t the first time that I have made Farscape cards. I was involved in another swap in the past. This one was as fun as ever.

Scorpius

Scorpius ATC

Scorpius ATC

Taking over for Crais as ths bad guy chasing Moya and crew, Scorpius is not the sort that I would want to be caught by.

Aeryn Sun

Aeryn Sun ATC

Aeryn Sun ATC

This Peacekeeper hottie is a real badass on the show and at least at the point where I am, the love interest of main character Crichton.

Chiana

Chiana ATC

Chiana ATC

Chiana really irritated me when she first joined the show, but after five or so episodes you begin to know more about her character and I started to like her still she isn’t my favorite character like the one portrayed on my final card.

Dominar Rygel XVI

Dominar Rygel XVI ATC

Dominar Rygel XVI ATC

Easily my favorite character on the show is Dominar Rygel XVI, the pompus little muppet always out to find the best deal for himself.

Brussels Sprouts In Their Natural Habitat

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Here is a spontaneous Artist Trading Card Swap that I started. The title came to me because I was trying to think of the most boring yet repulsive swap that no one would find interest in. After I thought of the title, I started thinking of ways to try to sell it. How could I make it interesting? Creative? Different? After thinking for a while I found my angle and had to start the swap.

Here’s my pitch:

We all know what Brussels Sprouts are. Those horrible little green shriveled up cabbage looking things that smelled like armpits or maybe feet. Maybe you had an Aunt who would serve them on occation or if you were very unlucky, you got them more often. Where do they come from? I have heard rumors that they are a vegetable, but I think that is untrue.

I actually think that they could be an alien species invading Earth, thwarted only by the humans who like to harvest and eat them. Luckily for us those people exist. Perhaps they are droppings left by an invisible animal that has never been discovered, or perhaps they are manufactured from bellybutton lint.

Where do you think that they come from? Give me three cards showing their true origins and perhaps we can figure it out!

Fly Giant Eyeballs

Fly Giant Eyeballs ATC

Fly Giant Eyeballs ATC

It is obvious that brussels sprouts are popped from the multi faceted eyes of giant flies. The taste gives them away.

Growing in Sleep Drool

Growing in Sleep Drool

Growing in Sleep Drool

Of course the following scene is also possible. Here we see a convict who sleeps deeply and drools heavily. In the drool, brussels sprouts emerge nourished by the stank of morning breath.

Hulls of Ships

Hulls of Ships ATC

Hulls of Ships ATC

Have you ever noticed a similarity of form between brussels sprouts and barnacles? I think that there may be some truth to that. After all form follows function and brussels sprouts so smell or fetid ocean pollution.

Galaxy Far Far Away ATC Swap

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I recently started up an ATC swap with a sci-fi theme. It is open to all sci-fi, though my cards ended up having a definate Star Wars mashup theme to them.

Meesa Run!

Meesa Run ATC

Meesa Run ATC

Lets face it, as an alien Jar Jar Binks was more failure than success. Most Star Wars fans would like to see him run into something particularly nasty like a sarlac pit.

Excelling at particularly nasty is Ridley scott’s Alien franchise utilizing the creepily beautiful artwork of H.R. Geiger.

This card brings the terror of the xenomorph to the most hated of Gungans.

Mul-T-Pass!

Mul-T-Pass ATC

Mul-T-Pass ATC

I recently purchased a wonderful shirt from Tee Fury that is a warning sign with a picture of the death star. It says: Warning battle station may explode if small teddy bear like creatures with sticks for weapons shut down the shield generator on a nearby moon. Or something like that. That is kinds where the seed for this idea came from. If that idea had bastard children with the Leeloo Dallas Multipass Meme

These are the droids you are looking for

These are the droids you are looking for ATC

These are the droids you are looking for ATC

Here’s a take on another star wars meme. You have most likely seen the demotivational poster of the stormtrooper with regret that those were the droids he was looking for. This is a play on the scene from the original Star Wars where Obi Wan Kenobi uses his Jedi Mind powers to convince the stormtroopers that C3P0 and R2D2 were not the droids they were looking for.

This however raises the question, how did the troopers know what droids they were looking for? Mos Eisley must have been filled with droids, except in The Cantina. Here we see the troop Sargent showing the warning poster with images of the droids to the troopers before they go on patrol. There is no excuse for not finding them.

It’s Your Fantasy ATC Swap

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I have now successfully hosted 3 artist trading card swaps.

I have started a fourth on with a theme of the fantasy genre. Here is my write-up of the theme.

The fantasy genre has captured the minds and hearts of millions of fans. Inspiring thousands of books, TV shows, movies and games. In books, there are the classics of J.R.R. Tolkien such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The unpredictable drama of George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire. The sweeping epic that is Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time. Don’t forget The First Law, Mistborn and many other great stories.

Moving to movies we find more memorable worlds with Legend, Willow and the cult favorite comedy, The Princess Bride. In television we even find fantasy influences with Xena, Hercules and a return to Game of Thrones. If you are like me you also have a gaming interest. From the epic stories of the Forgotten Realms universe containing the dark elf Drizzt and Elminster the mage to the wide open possiblities of D & D where anything can happen. Maybe you prefer computer gaming in the World of Warcraft? The games of The Elder Scrolls? Fable?

In these worlds there are humans and, generally, other races; elves, orks, dwarves and so much more. Dragons roam and hoard in various incarnations. Magic crackles from high towers while hordes of evil minions roar across continents set upon mayhem and destruction. It is a place where things go bump in the night and the imagination can run free.

For this swap, you will be making 3 ATCs inspired by the fantasy genre. This can be a specific movie, book, game or TV show, or it can be a creation of your own. Just make sure it fits the fantasy genre. You know; magic, scales, spiky bits, fair maidens and big monsters of chaos and destruction. That sort of thing. Tentacles are cool. Just make sure that you stick to magic rather than computers, because sci-fi will need to wait for another swap.

Trollocs!

Trollocs ATC

Trollocs ATC

I am currently reading the fourteenth and final book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time Series. It is an excellent fantasy series that I would highly recommend to anyone who loves huge epic fantasy. One of the enemies in the series are called trollocs. These are sort of like orcs in other popular fantasy except that they are mutations of man and beast. Being upright creatures like humans they have features of beasts and slay with ferocity and hatred of human kind. They are grouped and driven onward my fades, or Myrddraal. These are black caped eyeless dark creatures that link to the trollocs telepathically.

Vin, Mistborn

Vin Mistborn ATC

Vin Mistborn ATC


Robert Jordan unfortunately died before finishing his epic Wheel of Time Series. The final three books have been co-authored by Brandon Sanderson. This choice was partially based on his work in his own Mistborn Trilogy. A series that I picked up and read the first book of while waiting for A Memory of Light to be released. The book was quite good with a very interesting magic system. The main character, Vin, is depicted on this card.

What have I got in my pockets?

What have I got in my pockets ATC

What have I got in my pockets ATC


The all time classic The Hobbit, currently put back on the silver screen by Peter Jackson is a story that I really enjoyed as a child. My dad read it to me which is a happy childhood memory. I also was fond of an audio recording by Nicol Williamson. While I have not yet seen the recent release I am quite familiar with the story. One of the classic scenes occurs deep beneath the Misty Mountains where bilbo discovers gollum and his precious. A series of riddles in the dark ensues culminating with Bilbo’s riddle, “What have I got in my pockets?”

Sarah Bishop Hawties ATC Swap

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Last year I joined a fun set of ATC swaps that were made in the style of girls painted by artist Sarah Bishop. They are girls whose proportions are exaggerated to emphasize all that their momma gave them. It is a fun style that yields great results. A style that I have returned to a number of times.

Blue Bikini ATC

Blue Bikini ATC

Shorty Fire Burning

Shorty Fire Burning ATC

Shorty Fire Burning ATC

The idea for this card came from Sean Kingston’s video Fire Burning.

Stretch

My third and final card for this swap was titled Stretch

Cthulhu Madness ATC Swap

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From the mind of H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most terrible things ever conceived. Beyond the imagination of mere mortals. It strikes terror into the hearts of men. It’s face is beyond imagining. It’s mere existence causes madness. It is also a popular geek icon. It is Cthulhu.

After I completed my Whedon themed ATC swap, I moved on to this enjoyable theme.

A Gentleman Elder God

A Gentleman Elder God ATC

A Gentleman Elder God ATC


Often depicted as both evil and cute. I went with respectable for this one and am qiute happy with the results

Bow Ties are Cool

Bow Ties are Cool ATC

Bow Ties are Cool ATC


Ok I admit I did a bit of a crossover here with Doctor Who, but I couldn’t resist after doing the gentleman Cthulhu. It just seemed to fit.

The Minds of the Weak

The Minds of the Weak ATC

The Minds of the Weak ATC

Here we see the juvenile Cthulhu feeding on the minds of the feeble