Alright, so I finally decided on a day and time to wrap up episode 1 of my streaming webcast. Tune in this Saturday (March 28th) from 3:30pm – 5:00pm Pacific time to watch me finish up the Shatterstar/Deadpool puzzle cards that I’ve been working on. In this the final part I will be finishing all the details. If you can’t catch it, don’t worry I’ll post links to all 3 parts here once I finish. Each part is about an hour and half long, but you can always fast forward… I might be editing a time lapsed version for Youtube as well, so stay tuned. Also tune in this upcoming Monday at 2pm Pacific time to see the first part of Episode 2 LIVE! I would give you the topic… but I’m not sure what it is yet! To watch the feed just click the following link at the time listed above: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sketch-cards

Okay, so the first streaming webcast of me drawing aired earlier today, and despite a few hiccups it went VERY well! Now you can view the pre-recorded madness that took place. Basically I worked on the colors to a recent Psyclocke card, check out the clip from the broadcast below!

It was a lot fun, the next broadcast will be Monday afternoon (March 23rd) at 2PM Pacific time. If you’re around then please stop by. All you have to do is click the link below. Also if you want to view more video clips from recent broadcasts just follow that same link. And check back here for more news and upcoming shows! It’s gonna be a lot of fun!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sketch-cards

Have you read this yet? Fables is freakin awesome okay! Imagine all your favorite fairy tales come to life in modern day New York. Now when I first heard the premise I was a bit skeptical, but the stories that writer Bill Willingham has created really put this series in a league of its own.

With regular characters like Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Pinochio, Red Riding Hood, and many MANY more, each with their own slew of real world problems and ongoing dilemma’s, these characters are truly intriguing. The fables have been kicked out of their homelands by the “Adversary”; a powerful conqueror of worlds.

I know I’m certainly not breaking any new news for many people out there, but there are still plenty of people who have not read these books! Do yourself a favor and head down to your local comic book shop and pick up the volume 1 trade paper back, I guarantee you won’t regret it.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

eBay has a promotional 10% off coupon that they’re offering for today only! In honor of this almighty holiday I am offering 3 commissions on eBay, click the following link to check them out: Commissions

Taken from Entertainment Weekly:

“Scarlett Johansson has been cast to play the Russian femme fatale Black Widow in Iron Man 2, joining a cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, and the just-announced Mickey Rourke, according to E! Online EW.com first reported Johansson was approached for the role after Emily Blunt stepped aside because of her obligations to Gulliver’s Travels, an adaptation of the classic tale toplined by Jack Black. Iron Man 2 is due in theaters May 7, 2010.”

I loved the first Iron Man movie, and I think Johansson will make a great Black Widow. I’m also excited about Mickey Rourke; I haven’t seen The Wrestler yet but I hear nothing but praise for his performance.

Well I thought I would use today’s update to promote a great website called Sketchcollectors.com. This site is a perfect place to set up a gallery of your current collection of cards, or if you just want to view some cards that others have collected. The website is fairly new, but growing rapidly! Each listing has the option to list the card’s artist, a short description, and whether or not the card is up for sale/trade. Other people can leave comments on your cards as well. Go check it out and set up a gallery!

Added a new plugin to the site that allows the addition of polls! Yay polls! The polls will be weekly and can be seen on the sidebar… go vote now!!

Also, I wanted to remind everyone that this site has a link at the bottom for the RSS feed. For those of you who don’t know you can install this feed into an RSS browser, there are a lot of them out there. I just use iGoogle as my homepage, and I have RSS feeds all over that page… it basically just shows you single line updates from this site to help you stay current! So subscribe already!

Rittenhouse sent out a newsletter to some of their clients with new details (and pictures) for the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine card set, due out on April 29th! Here’s the info:

 The X-Men are back in an all-new feature film — X-Men Origins: Wolverine — and Rittenhouse Archives is pleased to be making the official movie trading cards. There will be 2 autograph and/or sketch cards in every box, and the sketch cards will be based solely on the comic books (not the movie). There will be only 6,000 numbered boxes produced. This oustanding card collection features autographs signed by all of the key starring cast!
There are over 40 different artists lending their incredible talents to this project to create one-of-a-kind hand drawn colored sketch cards.

Anthony Tan
Benjamin Glendenning
Brandon Kenney
Brian Kong
Brian Postman
BuddyPrince
Carlo Sinfuego Soriano
Cezar Razek
Chris Bradberry
Chris Foulkes
Chris Gutierrez
Chris Wilson
Chuck George
Craig Yeung
Dane Ault
Darren Chandler
Dennis Crisostomo
Don Hillsman II
Jim Kyle
John Haun
John Watkins Chow
Keith O’Malley
Ken Branch
Ken Landgraf
Kevin West
Lui Antonio
Marc Ferreira
Marcelo Di Chiara
Mark Dos Santos
Mark Spears
Megan McCausland
Nicole Goff
Rhiannon Owens
Rich A. Molinelli
Steven Miller
Tone Rodriguez
Tony Perna
Uko Smith
Warren Martineck
Yildiray Cinar

For additional details and to place your order, please visit the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Movie Trading Card page on our website.

 I also heard the the X-Men Archives set is due out in late June, so keep your eyes peeled!