Oddballs: Random Humans (From Issue #12)

I created “Random Humans” while exhibiting at a Comic Con, back when I used to do that sort of thing. I took a look at other artists’ tables and saw that they created sketch cards – small, trading card-sized pieces of artwork that they sold for a few bucks each. I thought I’d give it a shot.

I traced my debit card on a piece of cardstock paper (used for signage) and got to work. But what to draw? No one really knew my Perk@Work characters so there would be limited appeal there. So I came up with the idea of “Random Humans.” My first random human was “An Old Man.” Immediately, a con attendee spotted it and bought it for a buck. Then, a few minutes later, she came back and told me how much she liked the old man and wanted an old lady to go with him. I told her to give me about ten minutes and I’ll knock it out. Here she is:

I took a pic of this second one because I thought it would be good to have a record of it. I hadn’t taken a picture of the first; didn’t occur to me to do so.

Since that time, I created many Random Humans and sold a bunch of them. I even printed out sheets of them and cut them out and sold the individual cards for a buck (the originals I sold for more).

I’ll post all my Random Humans some day. For now, enjoy this new batch!