I will always have an affinity for Mike's Lord of the Rings sketch cards. The very first sketch card I ever bought was a Gandalf sketch by Mike from Masterpieces II. That product is 13 years old now, and Mike's sketches rarely show up on Ebay. I was lucky enough to trade for a few of them recently, including for this gem of Arwen, Elrond, and Shadowfax (if you want to be technical it also has parts of Treebeard and Gollum), which also happens to be the bottom left corner of a 9-card puzzle sketch (picture of the full puzzle included).

  
 I count 22 characters In the puzzle if you include the "Eye of Sauron", which I guess is more of an entity/landmark than a character.. but I'm going to count it anyways lol. I would call this sketch puzzle EXCEPTIONAL, not only for the artwork but for the creativity. I think creativity is Mike's strong point. His mind works differently from most of us, and I mean that in a good way. I think he sees a scene in his mind, and can sometimes even take that scene to even greater heights than it already is (for an example of this see my post on my original blog about the Luke training with Yoda on Dagobah Return Card that Mike did for me). I think Mike's creativity really shines thru on the cards in this set.
   Well, that's all for today but more to come soon. Thanks for stopping by and reading!
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