Recently, sketch card artist George Webber updated his Sketch Card Portfolio.

George Webber got into doing Sketch Cards for shows around 2007 and started doing them professionally for card companies in 2009. Some artist like to do 50 or 100 sketch cards in a series, were as George prefers to do only 10 or 20 cards in a series.

Here’s are some samples from Sketch Cards By George:

Comic book Legal Defense Fund - Fund Raiser - Cryptozoic

Treasure Chests & Booty - BadAxe Studios

Manga Mandy - 5FINITY

Check out George Webber’s full Sketch Card Porfolio here and be sure to read the interview we did with him here.

How did you get into drawing sketch cards?
I was approached by DC Comics licensing department about three years ago. I had done various projects with them and they thought I’d like to try the DC Universe set. I was inspired to continue sketch cards by my friend Uko Smith who has years of card art experience.

What is your favorite subject to draw?
Superheroes are my favorite subjects to draw.

What is your favorite character to draw?
I don’t have one favorite character to draw in my cards. I lean towards the Avengers and related characters.

Do you prefer black & white sketches or color sketches?
I’ve only done color sketch cards so far.

What kind of materials do you prefer to work with?
I use pencil, ink and Copic markers. Occasionally I use color pencil.

Who is your favorite sketch card artist?
My favorite card artist would be Uko because he gives me advise on balancing doing cards and other artwork simultaneously. He’s also a very talented artist, wouldn’t you agree?

What are you currently working on?
I recently worked on Marvel Dangerous Divas and I’m working on the new Marvel set.

Has your career as an artist benefited from doing sketch card work?
It’s more like my art experience helps my card art.  Having done comic book work for over twenty years I’m used to coming up with characters in compositions.

Do you collect trading cards for yourself?
I don’t currently collect sketch cards.

Do you have a website / blog / online presence where readers can find more information about you?
I have a few online galleries but I actually haven’t uploaded much by way of my sketch cards. You can see some of my work at www.comicartfans.com.

From Upper Deck:

On July 22 you will have the chance to meet the world’s first Avenger, but why wait that long? Today Upper Deck released 2011 Captain America trading cards giving Marvel fans a sneak peek of what they can expect from the film and also a first look at the dreaded Red Skull. It also gives them the chance to take home some pretty sweet insert cards like manufactured patch cards, autograph cards, movie memorabilia cards, “Ultimate Panel Focus” cards and of course; sketch cards.

Upper Deck commissioned a talented group of artists to lend their talents to this set and they came up with some amazing contributions. Fans who are lucky enough to pull these cards will definitely have a unique collectible to add to their collection. Take a look at a list of artists included in the set, quantities and a gallery of some of the cards themselves:

Jason Keith Phillips, 119
Gilbert Monsanto, 101
Irma Ahmed, 99
Lord Mesa, 99
Travis Walton, 99
Michael Duran, 96
Richard Molinelli, 96
Frankie B. Washington, 92
Ryan Kincaid, 87
Dan Gorman, 86
Hamilton Cline, 86
Matthew Minor, 86
Butch Mapa, 85
Jon Hughes, 85
Lawrence Reynolds, 84
Hanie Mohd, 82
Remy “Eisu” Mokhtar, 81
Roy Cover, 79
Kevin Gentilcore, 77
John “ACE” Evangelista, 74
Chris Foreman, 63
Joel Carroll, 63
Andy MacDonald, 56
David Mack, 55
Billy Martin, 54
Joe Pekar, 54
Dave Ryan, 53
Sarah Wilkinson, 53
Ben Herrera, 48
Eugene Commodore, 47
Brian Kong, 45
Bruce Gerlach, 45
Cal Slayton ,45
Eric Ninaltowski, 45
Sebastian Mazuera, 45
Tod Smith, 45
Lak Lim, 44
Mark McKenna, 44
Bill Pulkovski 43
Danielle Gransaull / Soloud, 42
George “GEO” Davis, 40
Jerry Gaylord, 40
Frank Kadar, 39
John Huan, 39
Charles Hall, 38
Remi Dousset, 37
Zane Donnellan, 36
Jason Adams, 35
George Deep, 33
Mark Henry, 32
Ken Steacy, 29
Joyce Chin, 28
Ben Young, 27
Dan Panosian, 27
Jim Cheung, 27
Johnboy Meyers, 27
Kevin Graham, 27
Cat Staggs, 25
Bryan Turner, 24
George Calloway, 22
Katie Cook, 22
Mike Miller, 22
Melike Acar, 21
Jake Minor, 18
Jonboy Meyers, 18
Kate Bradley, 18
Wendy Chew, 18
Hector Sevilla, 12
Jose Jaro, 12
Brandon Singleton, 10
Matt Grigsby, 10

Check out these beautiful Bettie Page sketch cards by Veronica O’Connell from the upcoming trading card release:

These cards are numbered and she only made 25!

How did you get into drawing sketch cards?
I started by submitting pencil and gouache-illustrated cards to what companies I heard were asking for artists. I decided to keep doing card work when I didn’t get replies, or I received a rejection letter, because this type of work is a challenge for me. See, I used to work only in pencil before and I wanted to try color again - first in watercolor and then I jumped into markers and inks. I also wanted to find out if I could illustrate on the smaller surface.

I started out with subjects that I am familiar with the most - some comic book characters, Doctor Who and ThunderCats - because 1) when one loves what they do and illustrate who/what one is passionate about, the results are positive, validating, 2) the new tools and techniques were fun to learn by illustrating who/what was familiar to me, and 3) I wanted to build up my online portfolio.

What is your favorite subject to draw?
Generally decent role models, especially female characters being strong, confident individuals who are credits to the good of their races.

What is your favorite character to draw?
Cheetara of ThunderCats (OS)

Do you prefer black and white sketches over color sketches?
Black and white; I am aware fellow illustrators can utilize color in sketches (traditional and digital), I see a sketch in my mind is started with graphite pencil on a drawing surface. I’m quite sure if I learned to sketch in color, I’d lean toward color for my answer.

What kind of materials do you prefer to work with?
I am most productive and intuitive with just graphite pencil, eraser and bristol (vellum) paper.

Who is your favorite sketch card artist?
Aw, I really don’t have just one favorite artist. Off the top of my head I’m really into the art and techniques of Nicole Goff, Trev Murphy, CK Russell, Leah Mangue, Chris Butler, Ingrid Hardy, Tony Perna, Elaine Perna, Otis Frampton, Katie Cook, Ted Dastick, Jessica Hickman and Danielle Soloud…

What are you currently working on?
Versicolor’s Bettie Page Private Collection sketch card set.

Has your career as an artist benefited from doing sketch card work?
My career as an illustrator has benefited in my technique and working professionally by doing sketch card work.

Do you collect trading cards for yourself?
Not at this time.

Do you have a website / blog / online presence where readers can find more information about you?
My current updated presence is at http://CelestaKrantz.deviantart.com and my main site is at http://www.CelestaKrantzArt.com.

How did you get into drawing sketch cards?
Drawing comics since 2007 for other countries through the agency GlassHouse and the following year was invited to sketch series cards in Marvel Women. That was in 2008, and on occasion I did not know how I should make these cards. I realized I should draw soft and loose, but maintaining the quality of work. The funniest part is that I can do my style without restrictions.

What is your favorite subject to draw?
Although for now only make cards of Super heroes and villains of Marvel, I think pretty fun. See, I can put my own concept giving more personality to the character. The more strange is the character, the more I play with it. I have a strong influence of Italian Disney comics and cartoons, so it’s natural that I would like to add a lot of sense of movement and expression.

What is your favorite character to draw?
Wow, this is difficult. There are many, but winning by very little from others believe it’s Dare Devil. But I repeat that I love drawing any character as long as I can hold my own style and personality to play with them.

But if there’s a character I’d really like to do is Captain Marvel (DC Comics). He was my childhood hero and even today I find him very entertaining. A guy who can fly, move mountains and it’s still just a kid who uses magic words to transform. Awsome! Ahahah.

Ah yes, another love that drawing is the Star Wars universe.

Do you prefer black & white sketches or color sketches?
There is a preference. Much depends on what I want to convey the image. What kind of impact I want to lead, whether dramatic or vibrant.

What kind of materials do you prefer to work with?
I have the freedom to use any material for coloring, but between all my favorite is watercolor and acrylic paint. These inks can control the dynamics and tone without becoming too strong.

Who is your favorite sketch card artist?
I do not have a favorite. Each has interesting peculiarities full of solutions and visions that inspire me a lot. I really do not I chose a number one.

What are you currently working on?
Currently I’m working on strips weekly Supa Strikas. A fictional soccer team. These strips appear in newspapers in South Africa and other African countries. I love this job because there is great freedom so I can play with the characters. I am also doing comics for companies that want to transmit internal campaigns to employees: safety, quality, ethics, etc..

And of course, more cards. I’m starting a new series of Marvel sketch cards.

Has your career as an artist benefited from doing sketch card work?
Oh yeah, yeah. Thanks to this, my portfolio has attracted more customers and I’ve done more art commission. But the biggest benefit, no doubt, was an improvement in my style in my work. How to get large volumes, about 300 cards, it forced me to develop a greater flexibility to Draw and increased my speed a lot and comply the deadline. I learned to discard what was unnecessary to resolve a scene while my dash lines acquired more elegant. That’s wonderful, because it put into practice many principles of animation in static drawing.

Do you collect trading cards for yourself?
Oh no. I may even buy a card or another, but only if it is something very specific. I leave my side collector for other things.

Do you have a website / blog / online presence where readers can find more information about you?
Of course! I appreciate the opportunity to speak a little of my work and invite you to visit my Blogfolio always with news of recent work I’m doing or where I have a new drawing to show:

www.edferrara.blogspot.com

But you can also find me elsewhere:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Eduardo-Ferrara/1631221053
http://twitter.com/edferrara
http://www.edferrara.deviantart.com
http://projetoestopim.blogspot.com

Here is a first! Nonsporttrading.com brings you a product video review of Luxura Sword of the Apocalypse, the first trading card release of The Sketch Card Studio.

Nathan Ohlendorf of The Sketch Card Studio was kind enough to send me 5 packs of the new release Luxura Sword of the Apocalypse to review. So I decided to pick up the camera and shoot the very first video review for Nonsporttrading.com!

Luxura Sword of the Apocalypse is a beautiful sketch card set based upon the  Vampress Luxura character created by Kirk Lindo. In each pack you will find one unique hand drawn sketch card and one base card from the set.

Check out the video to see all revealed!

The following information about the upcoming Zombies vs Cheerleaders set was released by 5FINITY.

Intended to be a Platinum Partners exclusive, ZvC Platinum will be released July 15th to celebrate the very first ZvC trade paperback. There will only be 200 packs made. 5finity will keep two and the rest were to be divided amongst the 6 current platinum partners. One of the partners declined their 33 pack allocation, so there were three lots of 11 packs that were solicited and sold via the regular distribution list.

The artists that will be participating in the set:

Amber Stone
Ana Sanchez
Bill Maus
Danielle Soloud
Danny Kuang
David Harrigan
Dominic Marco
George Webber
Glen Fernandez
Jackie Santiago
Katie Cook/Mark McHaley Jam
Katie Cook/Amber Stone Jam
Mark Bloodworth
Melike Acar
Nicole Goff
Rhiannon Owens 

Each of the platinum partners will receive 1 Melike Acar sketch as a bonus. I am ultra stoked for this set as the artist list is just killer (all pun intended). One additional Acar was awarded to the “high bid” on one of the 3 11 pack lots mentioned above.

Release day for this set is right arround the corner on (or about) July 15.

The Breygent Marketing San Diego Comic Con Packs packs will have Sketch cards, Line art colored cards, Autographs cards, Costumes cards, Prop cards, Promo cards, 3d cards and Chase cards.

More info and pictures as it gets closer plus what’s in a pack. There will be packs available for those who can not make it to San Diego.

The cards below are line art colored cards by Ashleigh Popplewell. There are 5 Vampirella cards to collect and 8 Project Superpowers to collect and there are about 9 different artists doing these line art cards.

How did you get into drawing sketch cards?
I have had a comics career for many years, I have worked for large comic companies and got bored. Actually I did not make much money doing that so I decided to change my carrer path. I do enjoy to draw super heroes though, and a friend of mine, Vitor Ishimura, invited me to draw sketch cards for Rittenhouse.

What is your favorite subject to draw?
I enjoy drawing female characters.

What is your favorite character to draw?
Silver Surfer and Thor are my favorite. But to tell you the truth, I love any Marvel character.

Do you prefer black & white sketches or color sketches?
I have only made colered sketches so far, but I would love to make B&W.

What kind of materials do you prefer to work with?
Inks and watercolors.

Who is your favorite sketch card artist?
Anthony Tan is a great artist. My childhood friend, Alex Magno is another great one. I also enjoy Vitor Ishimura, Andre Toma, David Lee, Mauro Fodra and Ed Ferrara.

What are you currently working on?
Marvel Universe Cards! I have been thinking about drawing Comics again.. but I am not sure.

Has your career as an artist benefited from doing sketch card work?
I really don’t know, because that is something I do not think about often. In Brazil there is no influence whatsoever, since I do ilustration for children’s books.

Do you collect trading cards for yourself?
I have a lot of them! But unfortunatelly they are not commercialized here in Brazil.

Do you have a website / blog / online presence where readers can find more information about you?
Yes. http://eddewagner.blogspot.com