Part 4: Fake Sketch Cards
In Part 3 I said Part 4 was the one I'd been sitting on. This is it. The series so far: Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . A real sketch card is one of the best things you can pull. Somebody sat down, picked up a pencil or a paint pen or a brush, and made a tiny original piece of art on a card the size of a business card. Nobody else has that one. That is the whole magic of it, and it is why I love them. It is also why people fake them. Here is what fake looks like. Two eBay listings from one seller, biggreekbreaks. Same title format, same $299.99 or best offer, both marked 1/1, both credited to a maker called "Sketch Munchies." Item numbers 336015917302 and 336015924891. And two different Deadpool sketches. A real one of one is one piece of art that one person made by hand. When a seller has a steady supply of them, same style, same price, same wording, that isn't an artist at work. That's a process. I'd already been looking at this brand for over a year. S...
