All pieces below were drawn by Luis Diaz for the All-New Series 5 Garbage Pail Kids. The cards ended up being 9a Furious George and 9b King Kyle. I have the entire progression of art for this card, from concept to final in my collection. Each step is important to the final outcome of the card. I have included a short description of each step in the process.

ROUGH PENCIL/CONCEPT ART
Using a template or layout for the card art, the artist can see where the series logo and character's name will go, and where the edges of the art will be. This enables the artist to leave room for a die-cut sticker shape around the main figure. Nothing important is drawn in those places. This template is typicall printed on the back of the paper so the artist can do a rough layout drawing of the character and the scene. This rough drawing will focus on action, expression, humor and exaggeration. Regular pencil is used during this step.

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Furious George Rough Pencil

TIGHT PENCIL
The next step is to make a clean, tight pencil drawing on tracing paper, over the Rough Pencil (layout) drawing. At this stage, the artist can define all the details in the art. Then, the tracing paper is put on white paper, and copies are made. This copied image of the art is used in the next step.

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Furious George Tight Pencil

COLOR ROUGH
Using the tight pencil copy (above), the artist will use acrylics to paint a color rough. The artist does this to know what the colors are, what kind of lighting and shading things have, and to make sure everything is bold, clear and readable. It also limits or eliminates having to make changes on the final art where it is much more time consuming and costly to do so. With the rough done, the artist can see ahead of time how the painting will look, and where they may need to make an edge darker or lighter for greater punch.

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Furious George Color Rough

FINAL ART
For the final artwork, the artist may have a copy of my tight pencil drawing made onto heavy card stock paper, and then cover it with a couple coats of acrylic white gesso so it is light gray like a pencil drawing. The artist will paint in acrylics, starting with light colors and going to darker ones. For Garbage Pail Kids, it is common to paint the flesh areas first, then the clothes, then the props, and lastly the background, using some airbrush to contrast with the hand-painted figure. Doing the painting itself takes about eight or ten times as long as doing the rough.

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Furious George Final Art

FINAL PRINTED CARDS
The publisher has the printer scan the final artwork, and add the logo and character names to the art. The cards are printed on a large sheet as a complete set, then cut apart and collated into small packages and boxes of cards.

Final Printed Cards #9a and 9b