Artist Trading Cards

im really new to this and love the idea of doing it over livejournal, cant wait to see what yal are doing!

im working on my 1st right now, any dead heads in here? lol...

does anyone use facebook for these?

Hello, first time doing an ATC. I thought I'd try it out since one of my friends had a good experience with it.



{Trapped}

Thanks for looking!

If you're interested in trading just PM me or send me an email at youreviloverlord@gmail.com

Hi guys,

Looking for some advice on how you store your ATC collection. I've amassed quite a few traded cards, which I love to look at from time to time. Right now I have this album, and I hate it. It has horizontal "shelves" or pockets to stick your ATCs in. So not only can you not see the bottom of each ATC as they're displayed, but turn the album the wrong way by mistake and they all fall out.

I'm looking for more of something that has plastic sleeves for each ATC, either 4/6/8 on a page (like these or just one to a page even.

Does anyone have anything they'd specifically recommend? Or should I just get pages like this and put them into a 3-ring binder?

Ideas?

I just discovered this community, and I'm super new to ATCs. I've been buying precut cards to practice different mediums on, but after that I don't know what to do with them! I have a link here to one of my entries with 2 cards I'd like to trade, and a whole bunch of other doodles. Critiques and advice is encouraged!! Thank you

I have a stockpile of about 20 ATCs that need to be traded! I'm open for blind trades too.

My cards are at http://ghiti.deviantart.com/gallery/#Artist-Trading-Cards

Thanks! ^_^

I was directed here from craftgrrl! I should have realized there was a dedicated lj community for ATCs! This has been cross-posted from over there, so I apologize for the double posts on yours friends pages.

Anywho, have a look! All images are 300x400px. The ATCs were photographed with with my phone (HTC G1 ftw!) so the quality isn't epic. (Boo!)

( Seventeen ATCs. )

Hey guys,
This is a new trading card that I made. If anyone would like to trade, I'm interested. It has many layers of paper and has a shell with a heart in the middle. Hope you all like it ! Just follow the cut, to see it.

( Journey )

It's been a very long time since I made one these:



Almost all paper with a little bit of black ink and blue watercolor.

Hi everybody, this is my first post. I just wanted to show, some of my atc's. If anybody is intrested in trading, I would love too.

I just uploaded a couple of artist trading cards that I'm swapping over on illustratedatcs.com. Making little 2.5" by 3.5" cards & swapping them online is one of my favorite hobbies. (Because I'm trading these, they aren't for sale, but other work is here.)

I am SO sorry, guys. There are 2 people (I think only 2!) on here to whom I've long owed ATCs... and things have been so crazy that not only did I not get them sent out, I've lost the info on who you are. *hides under rug*

If I owe you an ATC, first of all, please forgive me =( Second, please send me a message and remind me of your address and what I'm sending you. I will take care of it ASAP, cross my heart! And again, I really apologize.

Just wanted to give props to fear_n_loathing! I received your card today and I love it. The photographs on your DevArt page just don't show off the textures and swirly colours as much as real life. I hope you received my part by now :-)

 Hello! I'm a newbie here at this community and I have a question to ask all of you wonderful fellow ATC'rs out there.

I've been put in charge of starting a local Artist Trading Card Group here in my hometown. I'm very excited about it, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for our group? I'm going to be going over the basics (card sizes, trading rules, etc), but the meetings will be monthly, so I can't exactly do that over and over. I'm not sure if anyone else has posted this question before, so I apologize if you all have heard this before.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! :)

Hi guys, I just wanted to share a recent swap. I haven't done one in a long time and am up for more. My last swap in November was really disappointing - I agreed to a blind swap and got a card that was made from scrapbook paper and a Tinkerbell sticker :S Even if one can't draw, I still like original art!

Edit: I did not mean that I don't like collages. I do like them and do have them in my collection. I do have a problem with someone trimming down paper and slapping a sticker on it, which isn't very original at all.

( Swap under cut )

Hello! My name is Jaqueline, Jack for short, and I'm an ATC newbie. I've actually been interested in them for a couple years now, but only recently did I decide to buckle down and start. I'm usually pretty obsessive compulsive and uptight about my artwork, so I really think these could help me loosen up a bit.

That said, I finished my first card last night.

( daruma )

It's still available for trade if anyone's interested.. I'd love to start a collection.

Thanks!

 
 
This is one of my favorite ATC's, called "V" that I have made, and one of the first. As you can see, behind it I have many more. If anyone is willing to trade, I'm here.

The times we spent together are etched upon the landscape of my heart...

I learned about artist trading cards only a few months ago. It's still a new thing for me, but I love it. I've made a few ATCs so far. it's a bit of a challenge to do something in dimensions much smaller than I am used to, but it's still fun. I love the idea of trading art for art as well :D.

Here are the cards I have done so far, all are still available for trade:

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Art or Crime?

Here is my latest ACEO, my comment on a growing trend in society... is graffiti "art" or "crime"?



Graffiti artists every where tag walls, spray subways, and draw all over their blackbooks. I realize that your corner grocer probably doesn't want to come to work one morning to see his beautiful white wall covered in graffiti, and a lot of young people DO it simply because of rebellion, but it is not fair to lump all graffiti into that one category.

If you look at it closely, you'll see line and form used very carefully. You'll see colors blended and stark against one another. You will begin to depict style, and tell one artist from the other. I do not use the term artist sparingly. I know that these people take pride in their hard work, just like a sculptor or scenic painter would.

Take the popularity of Basquiat, for example. His work was against the very society that adopted him.

There is room for graffiti, it is not all garbage and done to "mess things up". Seriously, the next time you're out and about, take a good look at the side of that building or decrepit fence... you're partaking in an art gallery experience without paying the admittance fee.

Appreciate art for all it's worth, for remember, one man's trash is another man's treasure.