![]() ![]() Even as an artistic kid, I was always looking for shortcuts. I spent much of my childhood drawing and playing sports. They were worth almost zero cents as a collectible, but I couldn’t believe artists were paid to paint sports players. ![]() In the ’90s, most sports card sets included a number of cards that were painted portraits of star players. (It’s hard to imagine that as a team name now, isn’t it?) ![]() I even had an unfinished, headless life-size portrait of Chris Webber on my bedroom wall before he was suddenly traded from the Golden State Warriors to the Washington Bullets. I was obsessed with drawing sports figures. “ Huh?” was accompanied by the crooked head. It was as clunky as the ordinary, “what do you do?” question we get as adults now.īack then I’d answer, “Professional sports card artist.” I remember never having a simple answer for this basic question. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” ![]()
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