ATC night!

I took part in an artist trading card night tonight at Erik Jessen's studio!  Around 200 people attended (that's maybe an exaggeration... maybe it was closer to 11 or 12 people)... The assignment was to draw three artist trading cards, which would then be swapped at random with three other cards.  Overall, I had a ton of fun, and ended up with some really great cards!  Check out the full details of the event at Erik Jessen's blog, which you can find here.  He also has photos of all the submitted cards.

Here are the three cards that I submitted:

 From left to right, that's:  He-Man, a Carebear riding an elephant whilst chastising Albert Einstein, and Bea Arthur, from Golden Girls.  I'm not very good at drawing shawls, so the Golden Girls one might suck a little bit.  The rest of them are genius though, if I do say so myself (and I do.)  Also, I wasn't able to finish the background on the Golden Girls pic, because I had to go to a concert (Preservation Hall Jazz Band... for Banners series).

Here are the three cards I ended up with:

Unfortunately, since I don't have the cards in-hand, I'm not even sure who drew what!!! I LOVE the card with the funky shapes... I have a feeling that one was Michelle's, which is awesome! :)  Also, I really dig the style on the graffiti style mask / helmet.  I think it actually captures the way I feel after a whole pot of coffee...  And finally, that crazy Carebear is basically throwing lightning bolts!  It's almost like.. Thor, but in carebear form.

Finally, when I was pulling numbers to find out which cards I would receive, I found the golden ticket, just like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!   This ticket entitled me to one (1) Erik Jessen limited edition print of "Kraken Killz"!!!  I'm not going to post a photo of it here, because you need to go to his blog and see it there.  Here's a link to that, if you're interested (and you should be. It's amazing.)

Overall, had a great time, and I REALLY look forward to doing this again.  Seriously.  I hope they keep inviting me, even though my art is terrible.