Illustrations for Monster Sports Cards
In 2005 I was approached by Shelcore to create illustrations for a line of handheld sports games. The games themselves were themed to 5 different sports, and the characters representing them would be these crazy looking monsters. The handheld games and characters already existed. My part would be generating collector sports cards for each character. ..like a Topps baseball card replete with name, stats, and other invented details. The parameters? An 'action shot' of each monster 'making their moves'. The print size of these illustration would only be the standard 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" , but I did them at 8" x 10" for detail. I went for exaggerated perspectives.
The 'Big Daddy Roth' feel of these characters lent itself to that approach, so it worked out pretty well.
First shown are the characters as they were sent to me
The 'Big Daddy Roth' feel of these characters lent itself to that approach, so it worked out pretty well.
First shown are the characters as they were sent to me
Using the above character designs, I generated new art of them in captured action poses for the collector's cards.
Here is how they turned out;
Here is how they turned out;
