CamaroDMD
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Over the last few months, I have gotten into creating custom football cards using photoshop. Recently, I began printing out the cards and turning my digital creations into real cards.
I have a variety of reasons I like doing this. I have a lot of players that I liked as a kid who never had cards, creating my own allows me to send them TTM requests with cards. I also like the idea of creating cards that were never made but I wish would have been. It's also just fun.
These cards are not for sale and are not to be copied or sold by anyone without my permission. I do this for fun...not for profit.
I first started by creating an Oregon Ducks set...my favorite college team (and the school where I did my undergraduate studies). I created a 1967 Topps themed design and I am still adding cards to that set. You can see it here:
https://www.sportscardclub.com/threads/my-custom-oregon-ducks-card-set.430503/
I have since branched out and started creating other cards. I have decided to start my own little random assortment of custom cards which I will post here. I'm gonna number them as I go along. There will be a variety of themes and re-created designs. So...here goes.
I have already shared the first 4 cards in another thread, but since they are gonna be #1-4 of my card creations, I figured I should start with them. I will post 5 cards in this first post.
So, the first 4 cards are a career collection of a former player named Tim Wrightman. He was a TE in the USFL and played for the Chicago Bears for 2 seasons. He is also a semi-distant relative on my mom's side (he's my mother's cousin...whatever that makes him to me). Anyway, he played the 1983 season with the USFL's Chicago Blitz and the 1984 season with the USFL's Arizona Wranglers. He then played 1985-86 with the Chicago Bears and was a part of the Super Bowl XX Championship team.
Traditionally, older Topps cards reflected the season before their production. So, I decided to create his 2 NFL cards in the design on the 1986 Topps set (reflective of the 1985 season) and the 1987 Topps set (reflective of the 1986 season). I followed the same logic for the USFL cards. In reality, the 2 USFL Topps issues (84 and 85) were actually produced reflective of the year of production...but I took a little artistic liberty here. For these cards, I tried to create the design to be as accurate to the original sets as I possibly could. So: here are his 4 cards:
#1 1984 Topps USFL Tim Wrightman
#2 1985 Topps USFL Tim Wrightman
#3 1986 Topps Tim Wrightman
#4 1987 Topps Tim Wrightman
Next, I decided to create a card of one of my favorite college players from my childhood. As a kid, Notre Dame was among my favorite college programs (after the Ducks of course) so in my world their QB was royalty. Their QB at the time was the legendary high school prospect Ron Powlus. Although Powlus had a record breaking career with the Fighting Irish, he was never able to live up to the unrealistic recruiting hype that came with him and many people remember him as a bust. The truth is he was an excellent QB...and he was one of my favorite players. I created a card for him using a similar template to my Oregon Ducks set. The design is based on 1967 Topps but the back has significant artistic liberties taken to allow for his full career stats and his bio. The back however does have the "feel" of the original design.
#5 1967 Topps Ron Powlus
So, those are my cards for now. I have more in the works and I will post them once I finish them.
I have a variety of reasons I like doing this. I have a lot of players that I liked as a kid who never had cards, creating my own allows me to send them TTM requests with cards. I also like the idea of creating cards that were never made but I wish would have been. It's also just fun.
These cards are not for sale and are not to be copied or sold by anyone without my permission. I do this for fun...not for profit.
I first started by creating an Oregon Ducks set...my favorite college team (and the school where I did my undergraduate studies). I created a 1967 Topps themed design and I am still adding cards to that set. You can see it here:
https://www.sportscardclub.com/threads/my-custom-oregon-ducks-card-set.430503/
I have since branched out and started creating other cards. I have decided to start my own little random assortment of custom cards which I will post here. I'm gonna number them as I go along. There will be a variety of themes and re-created designs. So...here goes.
I have already shared the first 4 cards in another thread, but since they are gonna be #1-4 of my card creations, I figured I should start with them. I will post 5 cards in this first post.
So, the first 4 cards are a career collection of a former player named Tim Wrightman. He was a TE in the USFL and played for the Chicago Bears for 2 seasons. He is also a semi-distant relative on my mom's side (he's my mother's cousin...whatever that makes him to me). Anyway, he played the 1983 season with the USFL's Chicago Blitz and the 1984 season with the USFL's Arizona Wranglers. He then played 1985-86 with the Chicago Bears and was a part of the Super Bowl XX Championship team.
Traditionally, older Topps cards reflected the season before their production. So, I decided to create his 2 NFL cards in the design on the 1986 Topps set (reflective of the 1985 season) and the 1987 Topps set (reflective of the 1986 season). I followed the same logic for the USFL cards. In reality, the 2 USFL Topps issues (84 and 85) were actually produced reflective of the year of production...but I took a little artistic liberty here. For these cards, I tried to create the design to be as accurate to the original sets as I possibly could. So: here are his 4 cards:
#1 1984 Topps USFL Tim Wrightman
#2 1985 Topps USFL Tim Wrightman
#3 1986 Topps Tim Wrightman
#4 1987 Topps Tim Wrightman
Next, I decided to create a card of one of my favorite college players from my childhood. As a kid, Notre Dame was among my favorite college programs (after the Ducks of course) so in my world their QB was royalty. Their QB at the time was the legendary high school prospect Ron Powlus. Although Powlus had a record breaking career with the Fighting Irish, he was never able to live up to the unrealistic recruiting hype that came with him and many people remember him as a bust. The truth is he was an excellent QB...and he was one of my favorite players. I created a card for him using a similar template to my Oregon Ducks set. The design is based on 1967 Topps but the back has significant artistic liberties taken to allow for his full career stats and his bio. The back however does have the "feel" of the original design.
#5 1967 Topps Ron Powlus
So, those are my cards for now. I have more in the works and I will post them once I finish them.
