Random Humans

They’re random! They’re Human! They’re “Random Humans”!

These trading cards feature random humans from all walks of life. They are made with the finest of mediocre cardstock paper and hand-cut with the finest of mediocre scissors by one of the finest of mediocre artists… me!

As noted in a blog post:

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).

So far, I have these “Random Humans”:

Purchase a pack of cards (coming soon)