Arsenal Cards

Once again, finally got around to compiling my hard summer work into one single image. I have learned a lot about skin tone through this project. I lost a lot of likeness in most of the cards and a lot of players from the sketches didn't end up to be cards because I was working on the project during the transfer season. My goal is to redo all of these eventually.

Arsenal cards: Nicklas Bendtner

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #52. I have to say, I'm pretty happy with how this came out. I don't know if anyone noticed but I didn't post yesterday, mainly because I was very sick and have been having some problems with my wrist again. I am feeling a lot better now. This is supposed to be the last player I do but I'm going to go back and do some of the new players like Gervinho. After I finish with those I'll be doing fullbody sketches. I might even start those today. I'm so excited. This project has helped me improve so much.

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Arsenal cards: Craig Eastmond and Henri Lansbury

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #40 and #46. I'm pretty happy with these. Especially the Lansbury one. I think I'm finally getting the hang of these Prismacolour markers.

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Arsenal cards: Ryo Miyaichi and Emmanuel Frimpong

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #31 and #35. I had to start Miyaichi's drawing from the start but I had a lot of fun with him. He's very fun to draw. In all I'm pretty happy with both of these aside from some minor inking errors. More Arsenal cards on Monday. Have a great weekend!

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Arsenal cards: Marouane Chamakh and Armand Traore

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #29 and #30. I'm not especially happy with either of these. I think they came out decently. The sketches were more accurate to the features.

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Arsenal cards: Emmanuel Eboue and Kieran Gibbs

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #27 and #28. Words cannot describe the amount of frustration I have toward Eboue's card. It just wouldn't turn out right. No matter how many times I tried. Eventually I will redo it. I like how Gibb's sketch came out though. I think I got the shading down really nicely on this one.

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Arsenal cards: Vito Mannone and Carl Jenkinson

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #24 and #25. I'm actually pretty happy with these. I had to start the Jenkinson one from scratch and sketch it out and then colour it. It was a bit more work but I think it came out pretty alright.

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Arsenal cards: Lukasz Fabianski and Andrey Arshavin

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #21 and #23. Can't say I'm terribly happy with these. I had an off day because of an allergic reaction to some bites so I think it threw me off colouring wise. Oh well.

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Arsenal cards: Jack Wilshere and Johan Djourou

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #19 and #20. I had a lot of fun with these! I think they turned out pretty well besides some inking troubles in the beginning. I cannot tell you how pleased I am to be getting such good feedback. :) I'm taking the weekend but will continue posting on Monday. Have a great weekend!

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Arsenal cards: Aaron Ramsey and Alex Song

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #16 and #17. I am still exhausted. Not terribly happy with these, but not unhappy with them enough to redo them. I might redo Ramsey later. This is still proving harder than I though.

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Arsenal cards: Carlos Vela, Wojciech Szczesny and Theo Walcott

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #11, #13 and #14. I am exhausted. I still wanted to get all of these done today despite everything I had going on. I'm actually pretty happy with all of them. More tomorrow.

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Arsenal cards: Robin van Persie

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #10. I had a really rough day today. Although I'm happy with how this one turned out, I'm having loooots of trouble with Vela's. I decided to put his off till tomorrow for when I've gotten a full nights sleep. I will be submitting 3 tomorrow. Wish me luck!

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Arsenal cards: Tomas Rosicky and Samir Nasri

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #7 and #8. Suuuuper rusty from my trip. Not used to the sensitivity of my inking pen at all. I'm not super happy with these. At this point I'm just happy I had enough energy to finish both of them.

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Arsenal cards: Thomas Vermaelen and Laurent Koscielny

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #5 and #6. Still having a difficult time. I'm not happy with Vermaelen's card at all. I had to do some major doctoring to fix my heavy handedness. It ended up getting really messy. I'm happy with Koscielny's though.

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P.S. I will be gone for the next 2 weeks. I will be drawing but I won't have any internet connection. I will update as soon as I get back. See ya then!

Arsenal cards: Bacary Sagna and Cesc Fabregas

Continuing on with my challenge to colour each Arsenal sketch. Here's players #3 and #4. This is proving to be very difficult but I can feel myself learning. I rarely take anything from start to finish like this. I'm still experimenting with different systems for skin coloring and shading. It'll take me awhile before I finally get a handle on it.

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Arsenal cards: Manuel Almunia and Abou Diaby

Here's the start of my project to finish and color all of the sketches of all of the Arsenal players in order of their number. Here's players #1 and #2. I'm decently happy with how the coloring and inking went. I messed up on a couple things in each picture. I am really, really unhappy with how my scanner scanned the pictures. The scanner made it look a lot grimier. I decided to call the series "Arsenal cards" because they're done in the size of those nifty illustration cards you can get at the store. I honestly couldn't think of anything else.

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