Brian Hagan over at Moon Bunny Imports flagshipped an idea to make a ccg for the kids who attend Pittsburgh's local Anime convention.  I was very glad to have received an invitation from him to volunteer for this cute little project. 

It was  a mostly gratis shindig, paid for by Brian and arted up by a bunch of volunteers from AiP.  We could sign up for cards we wanted on a first come, first serve basis.

Technical and artistic requirements:
Dimensions: 2x3.5 inches, 150 dpi
Color Mode: CMYK
File Format: TIF
5mm black border
Images must be in color.
Give the item some kind of simple background, not just a solid color
or gradient.
Iinclude the top text and the bottom text,
as indicated in the spreadsheet.

He was looking for looking for cute/kawaii and humorous artwork, but there was no  unified style to match aside from that  preference.  I picked up 7 cards - 

 

I really liked working on the Gold Dragon, but that may relate to my long time love of the great lizards of myth.  Our turn around for these cards was literally 5 days, so the process had to be highly abbreviated.  The Gold was the only thing that got a dead tree initial sketch, and then it and everything else went into Flash for super fast use of the smoothing properties of drawing in Flash.  Exported the .pngs from the stage into Photoshop and then colored from there.

Was trying for some more organic, less sci-fi environment concepts.  The far left is a super-large monument/memorial type setting, something like a forgotten giant race's burial that becomes a solemn place for lesser after-comers.  The middle one is a clan-based, religious mountain peoples village.  The far right a mountain pass in a cliff region. 

16:9 aspect thumbs, Col-erase blue and copics

Near Future City Neighborhood

Anatomy Studies - Muscles

Anatomy Studies - Skeletal

Digital Color

Finishes on the antelope jack rabbit.

Animal sketch studies and the chosen sketch that was then taken on to a final pencil study.  American possum, slow loris, antelope jackrabbit and a pallas cat.

The design finish on that lantern/staff/....weapon?  It's meant to be hefty enough to withstand being used to defend one's self, while remaining a functional walking staff and light source.