Since his passing in 1993 at the age of 46, André the Giant's legend has just continued to grow. I truly believe André to be one of the most unique humans to ever have walked the earth.
At the end of January Gummy Arts posted a wrestling card collage to his Instagram page. Gummy Arts does these really fun hand drawn cartoon-like custom trading cards set to vintage card designs. Within that collage I noticed an André the Giant card done inside of a 1977 Topps baseball style design. The catch on that cards was it had André as a member of the Giants. I loved that concept. I had done something really similar for my Twins card. I messaged Gummy Arts and asked if he would mind me using that basic idea just with putting my PCb. spin on it. Thankfully he was totally cool with it and gave his blessing.
I wanted to incorporate the iconic 1981 S.I. photo of André's catcher's mitt of a hand absolutely dwarfing a 12 oz. can of Molson Canadian onto the card somehow. My idea was to use it as an inset picture, so that left me down to two card designs; the 1983 and 1984 Topps. I chose 1984 just because of it being a personal favorite. The vertical team name text and the cropped out inset picture just give it a really unique and fun vintage look.
 |
| 1984 Topps |
No comments:
Post a Comment