Pastime Presidential Portraits by bradu

[bradu]

It's not often that we artists get the opportunity to show our work on a set as we do them, so I figured I better take advantage of that! Recently signed on for Pastime's upcoming set Presidential Portraits, and I've been trying to post a new one each day. Here's what I've got so far, look for more updates in the coming days:

http://www.bradutterstrom.com/uploads/6/8/1/4/6814092/2151380_orig.jpg

http://www.bradutterstrom.com/uploads/6/8/1/4/6814092/403533_orig.jpg

[Chuck Bartowski]

Nice work!

[jrosales]

These are awesome! Love the facial hair on Chester Arthur. You're kinda inspiring me to start my own thread to show mine off as well.

[tacoma34]

Reagan is my guy! I would love to own that one of the Best president we've ever had. Are these sketch cards?

[GUCD231]

Great work Brad, kinda partial the Lincoln.

[bradu]

Yes Tacoma, these are sketch cards. Yeah Juan, I'd suggest posting your own! Like I said it's rare we actually get to post new stuff as we do it, we usually have to wait months and then post them all in one big chunk...it's nice to be able to post daily-ish as I make progress on the set.

[Uter79]

Great looking cards. Love the detail on them.
Any more information on this set? Is it all sketches or a full base set with hits like sketches and whatnot?

[JJ53]

Pastime i thought was bankrupt? I know they screwed me out of a redemption. Never answered any emails or tweets.

[iluvfish2]

Pastime i thought was bankrupt? I know they screwed me out of a redemption. Never answered any emails or tweets.

Seems weird as they've been about the fastest ever on a redemption I submitted.

That being said awesome sketches!

[jrosales]

Great looking cards. Love the detail on them.
Any more information on this set? Is it all sketches or a full base set with hits like sketches and whatnot?

I'm doing the base card art for this set. The base cards will feature all presidents, and each set that is purchased will contain one sketch card and another insert.

[jrosales]

Pastime i thought was bankrupt? I know they screwed me out of a redemption. Never answered any emails or tweets.

Send me a PM, as I communicate with the Pastime owner frequently. I can pass your message along or put you in direct contact with him. I know that he had some personal issues lately that interfered with his business.

[bradu]

Wow Juan I didn't know that there was a base set featuring your artwork! I'm gonna have to grab one of those.

[jrosales]

Wow Juan I didn't know that there was a base set featuring your artwork! I'm gonna have to grab one of those.

The sell sheet was on their website briefly but was taken down. Not sure if Mark was amending it or not. I'm thinking about getting a set myself.

[retroart]

These look very nice! I'm doing a few cards for this set myself. Still have a few more to go before I'm finished. Seeing your Chester Arthur card makes me want to do one of him!

[Uter79]

I'm doing the base card art for this set. The base cards will feature all presidents, and each set that is purchased will contain one sketch card and another insert.

Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out for the set. I've got a friend who is big into the presidents and he'll want one too for sure depending on price.

[jrosales]

Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out for the set. I've got a friend who is big into the presidents and he'll want one too for sure depending on price.



Should be a good set. Lots of great art being shown on Facebook for the set. Once I get a hold of the revised sell sheet, I'll post it.

[bradu]

I'll get better scans once I'm done, but here's the next one, James Garfield:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10422434_10153521705668056_6860444013855788993_n.jpg?oh=d69a79fdb320ac60fa1bcd9f21c9319e&oe=55616757&__gda__=1432728494_4373be8bffaa26a37c982c1b25e8ca6b

[ricksam]

if only there were autos ..

are all sketches head shots/ portraits ? .. or some flexibility - can u do action shots like Bush playing baseball? Ford - football? etc

[bradu]

pretty sure those would be ok Ricksam. And actually, I do seem to recall that there might be a few cut autos in the set

[bradu]

Here's a scan of all the ones I've done so far, includes a couple not yet posted above and the colors/details are more accurate to the actual cards than the above photos which were just taken with my phone. Got 2 more to do for the pack inserted cards, and then I'll have artist proofs to add at some point as well.

http://www.bradutterstrom.com/uploads/6/8/1/4/6814092/4388046_orig.jpg

[jrosales]

Man, these are awesome. I'm jealous.

[bradu]

Thanks Juan...I'm jealous of you as well so it goes both ways. Your art is pretty awesome, and you got the base card gig for this set!

[bradu]

initial post now shows scans of all 10 completed