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Sketch Card Artists

Tone Rodriguez

Chris Moreno

Jeff Zugale

William O’Neill

Kevin Graham

Daniel Cooney

Tess Fowler

Chris Henderson

Bryan Morton

Nick (Nik) Neocleous

Steve Oatney

Sean Pence

Michael T. Sandborn

Jamie Snell

Kyle Babbitt

Benjamin Glendenning

Leah Mangue

Brian C. Kong

Otto Dieffenbach

Steven Miller

Corbett Vanoni

John Watkins-Chow

Leeahd Goldberg

Randy Martinez


 

 


Sketch Cards - Artist Bios
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Each sketch card in The Spirit trading card collection is a one-of-a-kind piece of art created by one of 24 different top sketch card artists.  

 


 
 

 

Bryan Morton - Card SK-9
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Bryan Morton is an illustrator and Graphic Designer from CT who has worked on Heroes season 2, Star Wars : The Clone Wars, and Indiana Jones Masterpieces. Before getting into sketch cards, he worked at Brightwork Press creating the Book of Secrets, John Wilkes Booth diary, and various other props, for the Disney film " National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets".
Hoping to relocate to NYC, or LA next year, Bryan would like to continue working in films for an art department, possibly on the CGI side. In his free time he loves digital painting , working on costumes, trooping with the 501st Legion, and going to most of the big Comic Conventions every year with friends.... usually as Superman, Batman, or Anakin Skywalker.
www.bryanmortonart.com



 

 

 

 

 

Nik Neocleous - Card SK-10
193 Cards - Click to View

Nick lives and works in London, UK. He has worked on varied products such as Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, Hammer Horror and CSI. During the 1980s he did comic strip work for the noted British publication 2000AD and magazines such as Graphixus and Pssst! Nick has also produced his own science fiction comic entitled 'Grey days' which is available from his website at www.PlanetNik.com

 More recently Nick has done the cover and a number of illustrations for a book entitled 'Bewitched by Darkness' which is available on Amazon.com. And, coming soon for 2009 from the same publisher will be a 130 page artbook of Nick's art currently titled 'Cosmic Eye'.



 

 

 

 

 

Steve Oatney - Card SK-11
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Steve Oatney has been drawing for as long as he can remember, and still loves crayons! He has had an enjoyable career working with clients like Disney, Warner Bros, Lucasfilm, DC Comics, Marvel, Microsoft, Sony Entertainment, and the USOC. His lifelong love of sci-fi, fantasy, gaming, and comic-books led him to creative outlets including illustration, design, and photography. He resides in colorful Colorado, where he has spent most of his life, just a stone’s throw away from the majestic Rocky Mountains. One of Steve’s favorite quotes: “Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.”
http://www.steveoatney.com



 

 

 

 

 

Sean Pence - Card SK-12
196 Cards - Click to View

Sean Patrick Pence is a (near) Pittsburgh based sci-fi / fantasy portrait artist who is celebrating his 5th year in the trading card industry. Since 2003 his photo-realistic artwork has been published in various trading card sets including Farscape, Battlestar Galactica & Star Trek; plus sketch cards for movie sets like X-MEN 3, IRON MAN, STAR WARS 30th Anniversary, HALO, The Lord of the Rings Masterpieces I & II, HEROES I & II plus Indiana Jones Heritage & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and just wrapped up work on the THE SPIRIT movie set from Inkworks. Please visit Sean's [SP]ankin' new site: www.seanpatrickpence.com



 

 

 

 

 

Michael T. Sandborn - Card SK-13
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Michael Sandborn is a freelance story and concept artist hailing from San Jose, California. His work on The Spirit Sketch cards came at a time when he himself was working on a short for his final semester at Cogswell College that was to pay homage to Frank Miller. Often going by Sandborn, he is a constant deviantart.com fiend with his own page msandborn.deviantart.com and is patiently waiting for the unannounced game from Cast Iron Works for which he did 3D models for. Sandborn was also lead artist on the 2nd most downloaded game, Soccermom. His web gallery can be found at http://www.thesandbot.com/index.html.



 

 

 

 

 

 Jamie Snell - Card SK-14
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Jamie Snell is born and breed in the heartland of Columbus, Ohio.
A graduate of Columbus College of Art and Design he has pursued his artistic career as a freelancer.
From various Character drawings in the Transformers Beast Wars source book for IDW Publishing, Pencils/inks for a short story in the Cereal and Pajamas anthology for Ape Entertainment to inking a short story in the Harvey Award winner for Best Anthology- Popgun vol.1 from Image Comics. New to the sketch card field Jamie has worked on various trading card sets. The Spirit being his first work with Inkworks.
www.Ragelion.com



 

 

 

 

 

Kyle Babbitt - Card SK-15
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Kyle Babbitt is a young artist that grew up in Dublin, California. Ever since Kyle was a young boy he always found himself drawing away whatever was on his mind, never in a million years thinking that later in life his pencil would form relationships with some of his most beloved movies. Since becoming a professional artist Kyle has found himself working with such major licenses as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Lord of the Rings



 

 

 

 

 

Benjamin Glendenning - Card SK-16
207 Cards - Click to View

Benjamin Glendenning is an Arizona based Comic Artist/Creator and Freelance Illustrator with a Quirky and Eclectic Style of Art and even Quirkier and eclectic haircut. Being completely obsessed with Saturday morning cartoons and Classic Comics; Ben's art style has become a fusion of those influences.

Ben has Provided Finishing Art and Pin-ups for several Image comics publications including"Loaded Bible 3" ,"Dynamo 5" and the upcoming "Colt Noble", Ben has also collaborated with other comic publishers such as Coffin Comics"Sideways-8 studios, Bluewater productions, Angel Gate press, Arcana Studios and Devils Due Productions.   Ben is also an Experienced Sketch card Artist providing Sketch Cards for many trading card sets.

Ben is also currently hard at work developing several creator-owned properties under his "Skulljammer Productions" label so keep an eye out!
www.Skulljammer.com     http://skulljammer.deviantart.com/



 

  

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