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Fantasy baseball. A fairly recent past time for fans all over America - it is an obsession for many. One that I have never indulged. I've been told that since I'm such a baseball freak, I'd probably do pretty well, but I just never have gotten into it.
Whenever I think of Fantasy Baseball, visions of dragons breathing fire at baseball players come to mind. Baseball players with swords instead of baseball bats. Am I alone in this? Probably. But it gave me some ideas for my latest creation. I've been thinking about it for a while now, and since someone had hired me recently to do a Magic the Gathering card, I thought now would be the time to try and come up with a cool Canseco MTG card. I think it fits, because while my son is not into MTG, he does love Pokemon cards and dragons - same difference, right? I'm sure I probably offended a good portion of my reading audience by that last sentence, so please forgive my ignorance on the subject. For starters, I wanted a picture of Canseco who was not just in the typical green & gold. No, I wanted something obscure. Something with different colors. Something with a double flap helmet. Mission accomplished: ![]() This picture is of him in his post MLB playing days, so it makes it extra unique. Slap this baby on an MTG card, and put a catchy name on it and we are good to go! Let's call him CANSECO THE CRUSHER!!! ![]() A few things to be noted on this card. All of the little things on an MTG card mean something. I forget what the upper right circle areas are for, but for my card, I wanted it to be his home run total. The bottom right number shows the # of hits in a game a user can sustain, followed by how much punishment he can dish out. I was racking my brain a bit to see what I should put there. Then ... duh! 40/40, of course since he hit 40 homers and stole 40 bags in the same season. Note that is says leather spitting dragon. I guess in the real fantasy baseball, a leather spitting dragon can be a pitcher. Something about this card simply does not look ... "done" yet, so let's take this a little further. I didn't just want a fantasy type MTG card with a regular photo, so I added some effects to Jose and cut out the background. ![]() To give it more of a fantasy feel, I thought I'd add some more type of glowing effects. ![]() We are getting close! But no self-respecting leather spitting dragon slayer would come at one of those guys with a bat. How about this instead? ![]() Yeah, that should do it! ![]() BOOM! But something still isn't quite right. Let's give him some other-worldly eyes... ![]() Yeah, that's not working this side of toon-town. Let's give it another go, and make them glow subtly yet deviously (is that a word?) ![]() Okay, THERE it is. This dude looks bad to the bone. However, I still feel like we need to add something. Something in the background, something fierce and mystical. Like DRAGONS!!! ![]() Ehhh, no ... that isn't quite what I had imagined. I said DRAGONS. Bad to the bone, make you want to pee in your pants if you aren't Canseco the Crusher, heavy metal inducing DRAGONS. This is probably better. ![]() That's what I'm talkin' 'bout, Willis! YEAHHHHH! I ended up making two versions: A base and a foil version. ![]() For a goofy type of card, I think it turned out pretty slick! These pics don't do them justice ... they look MUCH better in hand. For those of you still reading along, I wanted to share a little bit of the story of how this whole thing came about: The person that contacted me wanted to have me make a card of one of his co-worker's children. The child passed away recently, and because his co-worker liked MTG, he thought it would be cool to be able to give him an MTG card of his child, so that is where I came in. For anyone who wouldn't mind sending a few dollars there way, you can go to their gofundme website here. - it is hard enough to deal with the loss of a child (words completely fail me at the very thought of this) - I couldn't imagine being thousands of dollars in debt because of it as well. Anyway, just think about it. They are currently at $8,950 and have $11,050 to go.
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Tanner Jones - Author, Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict - Available on Amazon www.TanManBaseballFan.com |
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