Marvel Greatest Heroes Trading Cards (Avengers)

As you may or may not have heard, I've been working on Rittenhouse Archives Marvel Greatest Heroes Trading Card set. (See my last post about their Artist of the Day promotion for a bunch of the artwork) It's set for a March 14 2012 release and from what I've seen It's shaping up to be a really nice set. 

My Sketchcards will be the 9 - Case Incentive cards in which I've been asked quite alot about the Sketches. Due to popular demand, an amazing response from my Marvel 70th cards, and a direct request from on high...(Rittenhouse) I have returned to the dating of the cards theme.

Much like the Marvel 70th cards , I was limited to only 150 or so cards. With the long history of The Avengers, it wasn't easy to narrow down the list of everything I needed / wanted to draw and still have a well paced and even handed representation of all the years. Like all comics, some years are much more history packed than others and I tried not to let the "leaner" years suffer. There were many cards and characters I couldn't fit on the list without taking away from other areas. That being said, I was really happy with the way these cards came out. I spent more time on them than I planned, but I got in a groove and I went with it.

Whatdja draw?Whatdja draw?Whatdja draw?... That was the most asked question. Unfortunately, I just finished my cards late last week and I know they haven't all been approved yet so I can't show any until I get the ok. You'll just have to be a little more patient. I will post as soon as I can. But I can give some details.

 The Avengers is a team, and I drew ALOT of Team cards. (Another thing that slowed me down a bit) Again, I dated them all, as you can see in this detail, but this time on the upper right side. I tried to get the most important 1rst appearances of characters, last appearances of charcters (i.e, Deaths) new team formations, and tried to pick the most important moments to represent each year or at least the most interesting to draw and to spread off into most of the spin-off Avengers titles. (I would have liked to have had another 50 cards to work with) There were a few puzzles and yes... there is one puzzle piece that matches to another past set. (I will not help, you're on your own)

There it is, I will update this when I can and I appreciate all the emails. Thanks

Later

WM

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Warren Martineck 

Rittenhouse Archives Artist Of The Day

Rittenhouse Archives is releasing Marvel: Greatest Heroes in March and will contain 1 full color Avengers based Sketch card in each and every box. And, if You haven't seen it by now, Rittenhouse is featuring the Sketchcard samples of said card set by running a very cool Sketch Card Artist Of the Day on it's Facebook page. I would highly recommend taking a visit to see some very impressive artwork. They are featuring 1 or 2 artists 9-card samples every day from now until the set is released. From what I've seen, It's looking to be one of the best looking sets yet.

... and yes, this is the set I'm doing a few Sketches for. More on that / those later.

WM

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Warren Martineck

Later 

Eye Candy Of Marvel 70th Artist Proofs.

Just thought I would take a few minutes and chime in with something for you to look at. Here are some of the Artist Proofs I did over the past year or 2 for the Marvel 70th card set. (Easy to recognize with the dates in the upper left hand corner) It's just a little something to hold you over until I can start posting some of the goings on in and outside the studio. And I thought this might wet your appitite for the upcoming Marvel: Greatest Heroes set.

 Enjoy

WM

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Warren Martineck

Casual Friday #28 Updated (Cable)

I just thought, since I had a few minutes before I hit the sack, (not sure about the rest of the world, but in these parts that means going to bed) that I would post the updated Cable Piece that I inked for a commission a little while ago.

This will be the closest thing I can get to doing any actual Casual Fridays for awhile as my schedule is overwhelmingly heavy right now. I've spent so much time at my desk, I'm caught up on many of my backlogged podcasts, videos, audiobooks, and have ventured into Grooveshark and Itunes radio. (Feeling Floyd in Classic Rock is damn cool)   

So here is the Inked Version of the Cable piece I posted last month.

Later

WM

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Warren Martineck

Happy New Year!

Good bye 2011. Good ridence to all the jobs, all the work overloading my schedule, and all the behind-the-scenes stuff that I haven't been able to talk about and welcome 2012...! when I'll finally be able to start sharing info, showing some eye candy, and having new exciting stuff finally released for your enjoyment. 

Yes, it's just been one of those years. I really do need to learn the fine art of posting info in a blog without actually revealing anything... at lesast when I'm not supposed to. (That make sense?)

Looking forward to this year.

Later

Soon

WM

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Warren Martineck