I’ve got these two done and I’ve got two more requests on my list.  Color Sketch Card commissions for $30.00 (unless of course your a good haggler or you have galactic heroes to trade!)

Chris Dimino was given the following challenge.  Take this now useless item and give it a new life than it was intended to have.  The solution is presented in his typewriter series of sculptures.

My personal favorite is the “Corona-Matic”.  A typewriter turned into a waffle iron that makes keyboard shaped waffles.  I came across this image on Treehugger.  Click on the picture to go to his site and see more of his work.

Just before I went off to Texas I got word that I would be working on 100 cards for the Indiana Jones Masterpieces set.  Today was the deadline to get all the cards done and it has taken me quite a bit longer than I expected.  I don’t have approval to show off any of the sketch cards yet, so here are some sketches that I did to prep for the set.  I also did 10 of the DUAL cards.  I’m not sure what they were, they just showed up in the boxes, so I drew on them. 

I was given a stack of blank sketch cards at Star Wars Fan Days II.  I did my best to get rid of them all, but I still have a few left.  The card was pretty glossy so my markers were smudging a bit, but I’ve done a test and I think that I’m happy with these cards.

I’ve got 10 blank cards, and then this one of Slave Leia that I’m offering up as a commission for $30.00.

Just for compairison here’s what the colors look like on one of my personal sketch cards that I made for Star Wars Celebration Japan.

Just a heads up that the Clone Wars Sketch cards I have up on eBay will be ending about this time on Saturday.

The last of my sketch cards on eBay.  Click the image to go to eBay.

I am pleased to announce that I have finished another 100 Sketch Cards for Marvel and all 100 were approved!  I’ll be making a new button to the right of the screen to show off the cards, but until then here’s a couple of cards.

I tried to do something fun and show a “how-to” sort of process with the cards.  So, I drew 20 character and made each character have a 5 step process to a completed sketch card.

When I sat down and mapped out what I needed to do on my various projects, I forgot to mark today as a day off.  So my Labor day had a bit of labor to it.  I started by finishing up some work on a website, which stopped working right when I was trying to finish it.  You see, I was trying to wrap things up by 10:00 because my girls had invited all of their cousins over to make a movie for my Mom, who’s in the hospital.  So, I worked with her last night to make a shot list and then make assignments for props so the day would go better.  I guess when dealing with about 6 little girls under the age of 8 things could have gone worse.

We finished the taping, then I went with my brother to the hospital to visit, then we came home and there was another party starting.  I’m so glad that I cleaned up the yard on Saturday.

Anyway, one of the things that my boy really wanted for his birthday was for me to make some sketch cards just for him.  So at his special request I made Rex and Cody.  I was feeling good about sketching so I followed that up with Hammerhead and Old Ben.

When I was promoting my Star Wars Celebration Japan Print I made a little animation from it.  Bonnie over at the official Star Wars Blog posted about it and it caught the eye of Mark Newbold from the website Lightsabre.  Over on the Star Wars Blog, Mark wrote,

“Just added it to Lightsabre, and laughed out loud at how cool it is.

Thought it was a shame that the Cantina music couldn’t be used, but having watched it a couple of times I kind of prefer the music that’s in there.

Great stuff Spencer, really liked that and we’d love to interview you on Lightsabre if you ever find the time!”.

Thanks for the Plug Mark!  The interview is available on Lightsaber.

I’ve finally received my sketch cards back from Topps.  I did 106 cards for the Star Wars:Clone Wars set and as part of my payment for the work I choose 6 cards to keep.  I have decided to put the first card up on eBay.  The card fits into a larger illustration to complete the picture.  I have made a custom matte for the card and sketch frame to fit in a 9×12 frame.  I’m excited to see how this goes.