Sketch Card Preview--ACEO's For Sale

Get 'em while they're hot. New ACEO sketch cards being rendered all the time! With more on the way and now DAILY! Contact me if you're in the mood for a custom sketch card.

Thanks for looking-
Steve

Dana Rinehart--My longtime friend has passed away.

Dana Rinehart-- my long time friend of 25 years from Knoxville, Tennessee, has passed away after a brief bout with cancer.

I text him on Saturday mid-afternoon, January 19th, to get an update after having spent the week thinking about him, only to receive a totally unexpected response from his wife regrettably letting me know he had passed earlier that morning. I was in complete shock-- without a breath to breathe. The response I'd expected was "My new treatment has started and is going well", or "I'm on the couch watching Frazier, these guys are hysterical!"

I am heavy-hearted, it's tough to take a deep breath and not think about him-- the news of his passing is beyond acceptance.

During our 25 years worth of adventures, Dana was once my boss, a co-artist with me on many projects, my screen printer, my car-tower, my carpet stretcher, my comic-convention cohort, my robot-building side-kick, the spontaneous adventurer on too many outings to list, a zany nut & a match for my off-brand humor, a man I would laugh with for hours if not days, and most of all, the loyalist of friend. He was a chronically happy man who had a contagious joy-filled laugh, he was positive always, and was just a truly warm-hearted guy. As I look at his picture, this is the way he was all the time. My friend was authentic, amazingly consistent and was genuinely loved by I think everyone who knew him.

Dana was prepared for every occasion. Just like the Boy Scout motto says, ''he was always prepared''. Listening to him as we talked on the phone for the last time and reading his final texts was comforting to me as I know he was even prepared for the final days. His heart belonged to Christ and he maturely spoke of his faith-- he was living in peace. And while he didn't like the condition he was in, nor the suffering of cancer and back pain, he was at peace and he trusted God for what had been placed on him. What an amazing witness.

I will carry my memories of Dana with me for the rest of my life, and I'll think of him with joy, respect, brotherly love, and great fondness always. He was a rare friend--the best you could have for a friend.

Thank you for reading.

-Steve

Fit to be "Tie'd". Second Chance offers.

Muhammad Ali or Babe Ruth--Who's the heavy hitter here?

Who can hit harder? Muhammad Ali or Babe Ruth? Well, Ruth is deceased, so I'll go with Ali.

But marker my work, both are sports legends no one can dispute! So there. :)

Man--! Forget ADHD, I have AT-AT!

Star Wars AT-AT.2.5" x 3.5" Sketch card.
Copics, tech pen and acrylics.

A couple of AT-AT's I completed in color. More sketch cardness coming soon.

Star Wars AT-AT.2.5" x 3.5" Sketch card.
Copics, tech pen and acrylics.

Star Wars Nebula Class Star Destroyer--Variants.

Star Wars variant Star Destroyers. Reminds me of Chevrolet and their similar but different models. :)

Wonder if these are 4 x 4? :P

Thanks for looking,

Steve

X-Wing Fighters! A little card, a little art.

Star Wars X-Wing Fighter 2.
2.5" x 3.5" Sketch card. Copics, tech pen, and acrylics.

Really, how much information can you put inside a small piece of cardstock? I wish it was more. :P

Star Wars X-Wing Fighter 1.
2.5" x 3.5" Sketch card. Copics, tech pen, and acrylics.

 

In a Galaxy, rather far away...

Star Wars ACEO 2-card art. 2.5" x 7".

When Star Wars first hit the movie theaters back a million years ago, my brother and I must have been the only two kids in the entire US to have missed the movie and even more astonishing, we missed even the tv advertisements. Strange, we were connoisseurs of every (Sci-Fi) tv show and movie during the late 70s and 80s, but somehow we managed to miss out on all the Wookies and Ewoks hype.

Today I'm more up to date with the ex-LucasFilm entity, and have found that even at a later point in life I can enjoy drawing the characters. Admittedly though, SW isn't what Star Trek is to me, but I can still savor drawing each widget of a DeathStar or Millennium Falcon. I blame the later interest of Star Wars on the little kid in me who remains fascinated by all things colorful, animated and dripping in creative juices.

Yeah, it's fun.

So May the Schwartz Be Wit You--whatta world, whatta world....! (Wait! Wrong franchise!)
-Steve

Get 'em while they're hot!

All during December, look for more new cards posting! Aren't sure of the perfect Holiday gift? Hey, look no further, I can help! Of course you could buy a card from some other artist much more talented, but where's the holiday spirit in helping out some other guy? :) Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, every-one! -Steve

New ACEO Cards on the move! Get some!

From the TV Show "Firefly", here's the spaceship
Serenity, drawn on my new StanleyArt sketch card stock. 2.5" x 3.5".

Order your custom sketch card today!

Steve@stanleyart.com

-thanks for looking!
Steve

New Webstore coming & Shameless plug alert!

My all new webstore is being designed and will be loading up within, I'm guessing, in about two weeks. What will be up for sale? Everything I can draw, reproduce, or pull from the archives! Heck, if you suggest it, I'll draw it. (As long as you pay for it!)

Meanwhile, keep looking and stay tuned!
Thanks!
-Steve

New Sketch Card stock is in! Get one!

I received my new custom sketch card blanks from a company called "Versicolor"! Wow, are they nice. The card stock is a #130 Cougar, and it is the brightest white I've ever used and a grade nicer than anything provided by Topps. And priced affordably. Be sure and review them if you're in the market for custom sketch cards.

Meanwhile, you guys buy the painted cards from me. :)

Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble gobble!
-Steve

Sketch Card MadNESS!!

Sketch cards! Sketch cards! Get 'em while they're cold, ladies and gentleman!

It's official--I'll be taking orders for fully custom, Stanleyart sketch cards upon arrival of my new blanks! Which will be in about 7-10 days.  And--I'll have card pricing, with reserved times posted both on the website and here on the blog and on DeviantArt.

So be sure to enquire-- and buy many many cards.

I thank you.
-Steve

Sergio Oliva--Bodybuilder--Biggie Size!

Here's one of my crude comprehensives for a poster idea, based on the bodybuilder, Sergio Oliva. He was nicknamed "The Myth", due to his unbelievable size & muscularity. Little known fact is Oliva beat (7x Mr. Olympian) Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Mr. Olympia title back in 1969.

How weird Stern and Jerry Aldo Riveera

On a flight home from an out-of-state gig, I carried on with me my sketchbook to do a little mindless drawing. For some reason I left my drawing pencils and pens inside my luggage. Duh! Luckily I found a pen and also a National Enquirer stuffed inside the seat-netting in front of me. Apparently someone worked a crossword puzzle and blackened the teeth of a smiling celebrity. (OH wait, that was me.)  Inside the rag were two fancy faces that stuck out like a sore thumb. Oh joy oh bliss--Geraldo Rivera and Howard Stern.

Entertaining or complaining, both guys at some point ate the foot of a chair during their careers and left us amazed at why the cameras would continue rolling. Sensational Springer-vision! That's why! Our interests and limbic systems forever tainted.

My catharsis, and much needed, developed these hastily drawn caricatures of both media-hookers, with viper-like ties and Medusa-like hairdews. Geraldo sports a small nose bandage, and Stern sports his original nose and chin.

Of course Batman just appeared out of nowhere, cuz, well--HE'S BATMAN.