My Art

My Art Melissa Piccone

ATC Self Portrait in the style of Françoise Nielly

ATCs, ACEOs & Sketchcards

I discovered Artist Trading Cards in 2013. I quickly became addicted and have been trading cards with people all over the world ever since.

MY PROCESS USING COPIC MARKERS

I use a piece of hard board covered in scrap paper under my cardstock. The card stock is specialty paper with my information printed on the back. This paper doesn't bleed, however most papers bleed with copic markers. They are alcohol based and refillable. Unfortunately they are not lightfast and fade easily.

The first pass is Pale Lemon yellow. The second pass for the shadows is a light green, Wax White.

I use a handful of skin tone markers to get the colors just right.

I bring in other fine tip markers for details.

Starting with the highlights, I use various shades for hair.

The hard part is done!

Here is my finished card. The dimensions are 2.5" x 3.5".

My marker collection

For the card on the right, I added some blue violet tones to the shadows. I am always experimenting to improve my process and final images. I often do 2 cards with different techniques to see what works better.

Here are examples of when I first started and how much I have improved in about a year. The first cards were done with colored pencils, the improved cards were done with Copic Markers.

Game of Thrones Cards

Jamie Lannister

Cersie Lannister

Tyrion Lannister

Arya Stark

Egret Wildling

White Walker

The Night King

Mother of Dragons

Brianne of Tarth

Mashups for Swaps

Star Wars Cats

Star Wars Minions

More Swaps

Happy Potter Pickles

Star Wars Sketchcards

Captain Phasma

C3-PO

R2-D2

BB-8

Kylo Ren

Princess Leia

Darth Vader

Bobba Fett

Storm Trooper

Nien Nunb

Imperial Guard

Luke Skywalker

Leia Organa

Yoda

Viviana - my daughter

More Random Cards

Disney Swap

Vivi

Groot

Serverus Snape

The Goblin King

Anger

Queen of Hearts

Sherlock Holmes

Red Shirt (they always die)

Miss Marvel

Vader Lego

Haunted Mansion Bride

Sugar Skull Alice

Wicked Witch of the West

I make cards for swaps in different themes and participate in Art-a-Thons several times a year where we all make a bunch of cards to trade. The Halloween cards are my favorite.

Lily Munster

Morticia Addams

Edgar Allen Poe

Frankenstein

Alien

Firefly 10th Anniversary Sketchcards

Topps paid me a whopping $2 per card and I made 50 cards.

Captain Mal Reynolds (Puzzle Card)

Inara Serra (Puzzle Card)

Zoe

Wash (Hoban Washburn)

Serentiy

Shepherd Book

Jayne Cobb

River Tam

Other Art to Swap

Post cards, hands, skulls, articulated paper dolls and more. We also have secret swaps, like secret Santa, secret Halloween and other times of the year. These are fun and give me a change to make more fun art besides just ATCs.

Altered Magic Cards

Painted Boxes

Elsa

Frozen

Two Headed Doll and Matching Box

Coffin Box for Symone

Coffin Box

Starry Night Tardis

Tardis

Inside of Tardis Box

Peg Dolls

Steampunk Nesting Dolls

Frida

Star Wars Set

BB-8 & R2-D2

Sugar Skulls

Harry Potter Set

Hermoine, Ron and Harry

Dumbledore and Professor McGonnagal

Malfoy and Snape

Sally and Jack

Disney Princesses

Princesses

Tinkerbell and Friends

Alice in Wonderland

Mickey and Friends

Super Heros

Wonder Woman Key Chain

Painted Shoes

Many of my painted shoes glow in the dark!

Other Art

Painted Jewlery, Mini Canvases (magnets), Small Paintings, Water Color, Art Journaling, Custom Stamp Making

Painted rocks to hide around town are the latest craze.

I Trade ATCs at Illustratedatcs.com ~ Purplepencil

My Gallery

purple-pencil.deviantart.com

Deviant Art

www.facebook.com/picconeart/

Facebook Art Page

Appreciate

Credits:

All photos and artwork done by Melissa Piccone