Pettyland Card Sheet

I finished another set of Pettyland cards. As usual, these were inked in Photoshop and sketched in a variety of places (iPAD, sketchbook, etc). I also included a larger version of one of them. I paint the illustrations at about 3800 pixels wide, as it makes inking digitally easier and I have a higher resolution version in case I ever want to do anything else with it, like make a  toaster cozy or bib.

 

Pettyland Card updates

A few new cards; a few old cards with some new tweaks. I think the new card style is going to work out.

Super Duper Friends

I did a piece for a Hanna Barbera tribute show at Van Eaton Galleries. I grew up watching and loving many Hanna Barbera cartoons, but one of my favorites was the Super Friends. I always liked the stranger side characters. Characters like the Black Vulcan, Samurai, Apache Chief, El Dorado and others. 

It was until I was an adult that I realized that Alex Toth was the production designer on the show and also designed these characters. I was an attempt, albeit a bad one, to make the show feel more "ethnically diverse". But, to the 8 year old me, they were just cool characters I had never seen before.

Below are a few sketches I did and the final piece, which was done in ink (brush, pen, brush pen) and watercolor.

You can check out all of the pieces in the show here: HB Show

The Procession of Pettyland Cards Continues...

A few new. A few old in the new format. A lot more coming. Also have been working on game balance a lot lately. Playtesting soon.

 

New Pettyland card design and ART SUPPLIES

So I finally got around to doing a real pass on the card designs. I was always unhappy with the old design. I wanted something a bit more hand-drawn, messy, more '80's, and a touch punk-rock. Like this new card:

 

And here's the card back design. I was aiming for "80's radiation symbol", since the genesis of this myopic game was the nuclear crisis of the '80's and my perpetual insomnia that resulted. Made with spattered and blown ink!

Also here are a few older cards with the new design:

Monster Heads For Dad

I did a painting of some monster heads for my dad as a belated Christmas Gift. They are just random little monster heads, but if I had to name them, it would be: Bone Tongue, Scalesy Flipperton, The FEZ, Ocular Wingford, Horny McHornton, Googly El-Vez.

Gouache on print making paper.

Spontaneous Leprosy

I'm not sure if this card's text reveals some inner self-criticism about my unpleasant aura or something. But here it is.

Mecha-Ape from 2005

I wanted to post something before the year's end, but I didn't finish the painting I'm working on yet. So instead I'm posting an old random sketch from 2005! It's a mecha-ape with four fingers and candy-red nipples. Not sure where I was going with this one.

Anthropomorphic Entrway

Another Pettyland creature: A door face! I can't claim that it is particularly '80's, but it is quite nasty if you encounter one.

Dingleberry Invasion!

I warned you that more tasteless Pettyland cards were coming. Here's one of many.