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An illustration done for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trading card set! 

Loved to draw all of the monsters on this set. My fave...

2.5x3.5 inches - markers, colored pencil & paint.

The Goblin King!

Artwork Done for "The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey " trading card set! 

The Goblin King!

Copics / colored pencil / paint - 2.5x3.5 inches - pack inserted.

Goblin! The hobbit : an unexpected journey artwork.

Another of my goblin sketch cards from The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey trading card set. 

Rendered with copic markers, prisma color pencils & paint.

2.5x3.5 inches - pack inserted.

Goblin sketch card for The Hobbit trading card set.

One of my favorite things about drawing stuff for the Hobbit trading card set, was all the monsters...

2.5x3.5 inches- pack inserted.

Copics,colored pencil, paint.

AZOG the defiler!!!!! Hobbit AR.

Another of my Artist returns from the just released "The Hobbit : An unexpected Journey" trading card set. Another of my favorite cards... I had a lot of fun drawing all of the creatures...

This card is sold.

2.5x3.5 inches - markers / colored pencils/ graphite & paint.

The Walking Dead Walker sketch card for the trading card set! Zombie Richard!

Another of my walker illustrations, created for The Walking Dead Season 3 officially licensed trading card set. This time I got to zombify my buddy Richard!

Recent commissions! Zombie tshirt design for plagued fitness & a dwarf convention sketch.

Here's a recent tshirt design for my buddy Jacobs clothing line " Plagued Fitness" looking forward to seeing the finished design.

This one was done in inks using brushes, quills & some felt.

This was a recent dwarf commission that was requested at long beach comicon. I'm an idiot and failed to scan it prior to mailing it out... Been super busy lately.

Completed with copic markers & brush pens.

I will be posting progress videos on my instagram acct today. @dsilvadesigns 

Here's all the 5x7 original sketches on tan toned paper I'm bringing with me to long beach comicon this weekend!

All the 5x7 s for long beach comicon this weekend!

Bloody vampire for the beyond stokers Dracula trading card set, cult stuff.

Here's more of my work for the upcoming trading card set "Beyond Stokers Dracula" being produced by Cult Stuff. Copic markers. I did a video if this one on instagram. @dsilvadesigns.

Random creature sketch

I was going to post another war of the worlds sketch card, but I wanted to take a break from posting those to show some of my random sketches. I've recently been experimenting with tan toned paper, and i have to say that I love it. so I'll be posting some of those drawings over the next few days.

Here we have a 5x7 random monster, done with pencil, copics,ink, colored pencil, a ball point pen & a little gouache.

Sinister Promo Card artwork for Asylum Studios

Some artwork That was done for an exclusive Promo card for the upcoming Sinister Trading card set by Asylum Studios.

Was going for a clive barkers meets Little Red riding hood Vibe....tried to make it a little sexy even though she's a disgusting demonic corpse thing...LOL. This was done in Photoshop with a wacom tablet.... I would LOVE a cintique....but.... starving artist thing. Horror art is always really fun to me, doesnt feel like work, I grew up on horror movies, so it just comes natural. I was going to do a full scene, but I thought since its going to be used for a 2.5x3.5 inch card, best focus on the face & torso area. Also I tried to rush as much as possible, because I was taking over for someone who dropped out....closer deadline. Anyway, hope you like it!


Here's the initial Marker sketch! Then I threw it into photoshop & used it as an underpainting!

Another Martian concept for the war of the worlds trading card set by cult stuff

Another Martian concept for the war of the worlds trading card set by cult stuff. Created with copic markers.

"Martian Concept 1" - War of the Worlds sketch card for Cult Stuff

Since I have posted pretty much all of my bombshells cards, I figured I'd start posting the 2nd set of 20 cards that I did for cult stuff's War of The Worlds set, based on the novel by H.G. wells. I had a lot of fun with this set. I also decided to take limited progression scans of these 20.

I decided to play around with the concepts of the martians with this next batch. I felt that my previous martians came out a bit cute so I wanted to focus on making them a bit more menacing.
So here is the first one I came up with. you can see there were a lot of elements that I added that differ from the novel. Hope you like it.

2.5 x3.5 inches - copic markers.

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"It Came from the Cylinder" - war of the worlds sketch card for cult stuff

Here's another of my "war of the Worlds " sketch cards being put out by Cult Stuff over in the U.K. I have to admit...I had a ton of fun working on this set. you had a certain level of freedom to do what you want, as long as you new the literature, you were fine. I wish I could have done more, however people who wanted me on sets kept promising me work & never came through....so I got screwed. Watcha gonna do?

This card was inspired by the part of the novel when the first martian cylinder opened & the protagonist saw the creatures eyes glaring at him. Done with copic markers & multi-liners.

Happy Friday!

Vampirella / Vampi-Daughter sketch card commission

Last Of my recent commissions was this one. I called it Vampi-daughter. A client who wishes to remain nameless has a dughter who loves Vampirella. So he decided to have me draw his daughter as Vampirella. Which is all fine & good, but I had somewhat of a dilemma. What's the first thing you think about when you imagine Vampirella.....the costume right? Here's a pic so you get the idea.

It would seem a bit strange to me, to clothe a young child in this manner. Although the style that this drawing was done in is very cartooney, I'm still basing on a real person, who happens to be a child...so it felt weird. None the less it still needed to be done, so I had to find a way around it. After a few thumbnails done in pencil we went back & forth until we decided on a caricature & pose. This is how it turned out. The client loved it & he even had me design their family christmas card. I'll post that one later. Done in watercolor & marker.

Fantasy Art Sketch cards for Unstoppable cards - page 5

Ok people...last page of fantasy art sketch cards...Thank goodness! Again, these were all done with copic markers & a brush pen.

so...what's up next? well I have a couple more bombshells previews to display before the set comes out, then I just finished working on a war of the worlds set...& MAYBE a Voltron set, if the company ever sends me the cards..and one other set that I don't think I can mention yet. Happy almost friday!

Unstoppable cards fantasy art sketch cards

Another page of my sketch cards done for Unstoppable cards. Created using copic markers & a brush pen.

Unstoppable Cards Fantasy art sketch card - Orc Dude!

Ok...so this is the last single card I'm posting from this set because as I said before I did 40 of them & there's just too many of them. I'm now backed up on posting, because I've completed about three different card projects since finishing these. I will however, be posting the entire set of them in sheets that I scanned in, so you will have the opportunity to see what is out there.

Ok, back to the card at hand. I think I like this one the most....I don't know why. Which means that everyone else will probably like this one the least. Why? I don't know, just seems to be the way things work out. Maybe because I'm the artist & I look at different aspects of the art, rather than what's pleasing to the eye. At any rate, here's my orc dude! Copics & a brush pen.

Tentacled Beast Sketch card for Unstoppable cards Fantasy set

well...yeah, another monster sketch cards for the fantasy set by Unstoppable cards. Copic markers, multiliners, brush pen & gel pen.

Fantasy art sketch card of a demon for unstoppable cards

Ok..back to the fantasy cards. Here is actually the first card I did in the set. I was mostly trying to figure out how to work with the stock. Came out well considering....but the learning curve was about 7-10 cards. Anyway, here's another demon done with copics & a brush pen. Just goes to show...you give me the option...I'm going to draw a monster 80% of the time.

Hang in there...almost friday!