Friday, August 8, 2008

More sketches on cards






Recently I did a few more sketch cards for the Topps company. This time around they were for 'The Clone Wars' trading card set. Sixty six to be exact. This is proof that there's always a way to make the nerdiest undertaking even nerdier. I had fun, sketch cards are a good exercise in working speedily in a small area. As the deadline approached there seemed to be quite a few heads around the Clone Wars studio bent intently on finishing their quota. I think the crew cards worked out great, although to be fair we had the advantage of being able to scrub through the movie files for ref on our spare time! Sorry about the repetition of some images, the top group are the comp cards that Topps returned to me, the others are a random sample of the batch.

27 comments:

Phattro said...

I want me a f$#$@* Kilian Card!

bko said...

OMG Kilian Cards!!!!
Damn, these are great. I've said that a milion times I'm sure, but damn these are great!! I wish you would post all 66. Dour indeed, Capt. Sunshine strikes verily to my marrow with his awesomeness!

J. J. said...

Wow Kilian Great work! Thanks for sharing.
Peace,
J. J.

nicole falk said...

These are brilliant Kilian! The ease of your lines make me want to work 100 times harder on my art..

Congrats on such beautiful sketch cards.

I am honored to be on the same project with someone as talented as you.

MarleyEds said...

Love and hate can ride such a fine line...I love your work, yet hate what I'm going to have to do to get one - LOL!

Awesome work, as always...so glad you made the time to do these.

Grant Gould said...

Why must you be so sexy? WHY???

Justin Ridge said...

Aww man... I want me a Kilian card as well! It looks like you had fun doing those. Congrats again on the Battle Milk book!

Unknown said...

Wow, nice sketch cards!

David Rabbitte said...

Great looking cards KP!

jamie said...

good work,mate...
we went to see a press screening of the clone wars toon,and it was pretty good.
not great,but pretty good.
i swqw your name in the credits and thought,'that's the guy who never drew judge dredd!!!'
lol,did you ever draw judge dredd? or go straight to DHC?

Jenni said...

Your cards are magic.

c.g.young said...

Kilian,
Great work as always...
you have a wonderful, unique style, thats always inspirational to look at.

cheers,
c.g.young

Howard Shum said...

Awsome cards, Kilian!

R A B said...

Mr.Plunkett!!! it's awesome to find you're blog, i just got the link from battlemilk which looks mega cool. Looks like you've got some awesome stuff here...i recognised your name on battlemilk instantly as the amazing artist behind what is still one of my favourite Aliens comic books - Labyrinth. Looking forwards to exploring this blog in more depth, have a good one!

Craig Mackay said...

Awesome drawings! Love your style.

Will Sliney said...
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Nikki Lukas Longfish said...

wow these are awesome!!

Andy Park said...

Hi Kilian- you're work is really great! Love these sketches and your BattleMilk book! Congrats!

. said...

Great Star Wars Characters :)

conner said...

LOVE THE CARDS!

BTW: ARE YOU HITITNG ANY CONVENTIONS THIS SUMMER?

Dilanka Samaratunga said...

The stylization of the characters are awesome! loving these cards.

Gerald de Dios said...

The sketch cards rock!!! So does all the art work in the latest Art of: Clones Wars!

Sean O'Daniels said...

Killian!
It was honored to have the opportunity to meet you Friday. Please keep me in mind in the event You need one more member on your team.

Best,

Sean

Micah Kaneshiro said...

Brilliant work! Look forward to seeing more.

Gianmaria Caschetto said...

Good Lord, these are great!
I remeber your "Shadows of the Empire" stuff back in '96. Maybe not your best work to-date, but I always thought the inks and the colors didn't do it any justice.
These sketches are simply beatiful.
The slightly cartoony stile, the angles, the use of chiarosucro... Bravo!

Ghost Owl said...
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Ghost Owl said...

Hi ya KP.

It's been a long time my old friend. I have been trying to contact you recently through your old email [linewave] but it seems to have run out of juice. Would love to catch up if you're keen. Take care. Talk soon.

Kindest regards,

Simon [Australia] - simonhenry@optusnet.com.au


PS. I created this recently [link below], it may bring back some memories for you:

The Star Wars Sketch Card Art of Kilian Plunkett - 2004-2005: 80 Card Collection -

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6vLs_BbkbY