markbartle.com blog
Welcome to my blog! My aim is to provide useful content for artists and art lovers. In this art blog, I publish posts about illustration design, comic and fantasy art, drawing tutorials, drawing tools, sketching processes, art events, and more.
Explore free art tutorials, videos, trading card collections and other sources of inspiration. Let me know if you’d like me to post about specific topics, tutorials and drawing techniques.
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Latest Blog Posts
Superman Work-In-Progress
Check out my work-in-progress of classic Superman from DC Comics.
The Art Of Drawing And Collecting Sketch Cards And Art Cards
Today collecting trading cards is a very niche hobby with sketch cards being a main aspect of it. A sketch card is a trading card with original one of a kind (not printed) artwork. Some artists prefer to keep the idea of a sketch card as literally that - à la 5 minute sketch. A sketch card is also a piece of art that can take however long and with as many mediums preferred.
Some members of the community have proposed that these more laboured sketch cards be called “Art Cards”. I think I fit into the more Art Card category. My personal process fits more comfortably into very detailed artwork while utilising up to or more than 3 mediums.
What is your experience with sketch cards? And what does collecting mean to you?