Just when you think you're out, they suck you back in! AKA First foray into NonSport

[Megatron]

Hey guys,

I haven't collected much hockey these last 2 years so have been pretty much a spectator but I have been recently sucked back into the world of non-sports and the sketches!!! I am mainly just going to collect Star Wars as there is just way too many genres out there!

I have done 2 cases of Star Wars Galaxy 5 and I was pretty pleased...

Case 1:

Kenny Baker "R2D2" Auto
Mike Kelly Die-cut sketch (is this supposed to be Vader?)
H. Shum Shaak Ti?
Craig Rosseau Jar Jar

Sarah Wilkinson Obi Wan
David Day Aayla Secura
Jason Davies "Young Pilot Luke" Really sharp piece..
Robert Hendrickson Royal Guard Very cool, wish I could have it in all red

Cat Staggs Wedge Antilles Very nice!
Dan Masso Obi-Wan
Grant Gould Darth Talon? very colorful!
Nolan Woodward Yuuzhan Vong Warrior? Another colorful piece

Case 2:

the obligatory Shum sketch
Giallongo sketch
Bulloch Boba Fett Auto
Mayhew Chewie Auto

Alex Buechel? Zim sketch
Mark Walters Jawas
Mr. Den diecut
Uamou? diecut

Gould Tusken Raider card 2 of his 9 card puzzle
Gabe Farber card 4 of the Bounty Hunters Zuckuss and Dengars arm..lol
Boba Fett jet pack with Vader in background? (anyone know who the artist is?)
Soni Alcorn-Hender Winter Celchu - Sweet looking piece!

I know there are not too many sketch collectors on here so I post on Scoundrel Art mostly but I still want to post on HI so I will be updating my sketch pick ups here as well!


L

 

[27Leafs27]

Good to see you around here again L, best of luck with the non sports collection.
There are probably a half dozen serious non sports guys on this board,
MikeysLeafs
Oasis
Bruce
Dave Weisberg
Wes
Triple B
Bommer67
I know I'm forgetting some.
Plus a bunch more who dabble on occasion.

Dan.

 

[Boomer1967]

great pickups...Love the Obi Wan's

 

[MIKEYSLEAFS]

nice hits on the 2 autos in that 2nd case
obi sketch is awesome

 

[hockeyguy2006]

Some cool stuff you got there Lionel. Hope everything is going well for you. :beer:

 

[czech20]

Pardon my ignorance, but are those sketches actual artist sketches cut to fit the card, or a short print or what? What is the significance of them and are they actually signed? Just curious. I have never got into that side of collecting. Very interesting though.

 

[quincy]

Some nice sketchy there Lionel.

 

[spiral8]

Amazing hit with the Soni sketch!
that`s worth a small fortune right there!

 

[Megatron]

Thanks everyone for the nice words... For the most part I find non-sports to be pretty fun to break, the wax is cheaper and you still can pull some "Superstar" sketches. Great stuff if you are a SW or Comic NERD like me! Some of the sketches are borderline masterpieces!

Czech20- Sketch cards are basically one of a kind, usually unique sketches done by an individual artist. Kinda of like a 1/1. The sketch is actually drawn on the blank card, and can range from a simple black/white pencil sketch to all out color with paint/acrylics. There are usually quite a few artists for each set, who do various amount of sketches so yes there will be "Short prints" of artist who do a smaller print run. Just like various pulls in hockey, there will be Superstar artist pulls (Gretzky, Orr, etc) and there are of course dud artist pulls (Trent Hunter, Kevin Bieska, etc). They are usually signed or at least marked with the artists signature somewhere on the front (as you can see in my scans).

Thanks everyone and I will post some pickups one of these days..

L

 

[quincy]

Lionel - I'm mostly learning about the sketches as well. Some of those "commons" level guys (Pennington leaps to mind) are quite nice.

And really, common or superstar, when was the last time you busted wax and your box hit invariably at least got SOME measure of your attention consistently?

 

[Megatron]

Steve- I agree with your point. For the most part every time I pull a sketch, (80-90% of the time) I am amazed at the quality, uniqueness, and coolness of these sketches. Sure you pull the occasional black and white sketch that looks like it took the artist 5 minutes BUT a lot of these color pieces/painted pieces are superb. I will be just sticking to the Star Wars Universe and not doing Marvel/DC etc, as 1 universe is already big eough... What sketches are you collecting?