Who do I know that likes Rod Caroo or Joe Morgan? Hello MP Fox at Fox CrewCarts. Hey, it's Scott at Ranger Studios. What's happening sir? Can you hear me okay? Yeah, this is my mom's spaghetti phone. Cool, so I just got back from my LCS and I found a sweet 1974 All-Star card with Rod Caroo and Joe Morgan. You interested? Yeah, what are you giving me for it? Five dollars. Well, I was thinking more like 800 but what about we meet in the middle? 397 dollars and 50 cents. No? Okay, 40 dollars? Still no. Okay, 40 dollars and a Rod Caroo marker doodle. All right, you got a deal sir. Hey super stars welcome back to the quest for my holy grail card. This is my series where I'm trying to sell off worthless cards for exorbitant amounts of money so that I can eventually buy my grail card a T206 Sy Young Portrait but to make it work I'm including some original art. Oh my gosh, happy opening day. It is like Christmas times a thousand up in here and a little bit of channel trivia. My very first video was on opening day in 2019. So I have very fond memories of that and I'm happy to be drawing a baseball player today for a super great guy with a super great channel MP Fox at Fox crew cards. I'm gonna do something a little different today. I'm gonna narrate my process a little bit of inside baseball if you will and I don't normally do that but two or three of you might be interested so why not? So I start these off with a mechanical pencil trying to get everything just right because if you start off with crap you're gonna end up with crap and nobody wants crap. Once I'm happy I'll do some thin outlines with a fine point Sharpie pen. Now I erase everything with a needed eraser because it picks up the graphite and it doesn't really scratch up the surface of the paper like a regular eraser would and because I'm using alcohol markers and those don't work well over pencil graphite and I should mention that the alcohol markers don't smear the Sharpie pen which could be a concern if I did the outlines with other markers. The skin is the toughest part and I like to do the tougher parts first because if I were to mess up which I never really do but I'm not really that far into this and it would hurt less to start over now. MP requested the powder blue uniforms which are awesome this blue is a little too bold and I can't quite get it exactly right on this tone paper but I'll fix that later. I've done a little shading with the markers especially in the skin but for the most part I want this to be kind of flat color. Now I start to add a little bit of depth in the blues. Here's where I use white colored pencil to lighten up that blue and add light highlights. Since the paper is brown you really have to add white where you need it. I love making helmet shine shiny helmets are the best. Now that all the coloring is done I use these cool Japanese brush markers to put in the final black lines. These are the markers that like manga artists use I just started using these about six months ago and I really love them. If I were to use the alcohol markers or these they would probably smear but you do get better more diverse lines than you would with the Sharpie. This is a bigger version of the brush marker I'm going over the outside edges to contain the drawing and it really cleans up any sloppy edges. I usually like to add some graphic shapes in the background. What I didn't show you is that I took this drawing into Photoshop to figure out what would work best. I don't want to do any experimenting on the drawing at this point but I went with a big horizontal rectangle to give Rod some speed. This purple wasn't exactly right and a little dry so I was able to put another purpley over top of it. Here's the white outline I use a uniball signal white gel pen for this. I love this part it really makes the figure pop. Got my signature on there and we're good to go. There's Mr. Karoo I really like the dramatic lighting in this face and I'm really really happy with how this one came out. But you didn't think we were done did you I didn't even tell a terrible joke yet and it's opening day man this is a special video. Fox crew cards isn't just MP Fox but it's also MC Fox and MC is just as cool if not cooler than MP. So I wanted to do a doodle for him too so I stocked him on the Facebook a little bit and I found some pictures of him pitching. I've told you all my drawing secrets so I don't have to go over that again but I don't know which drawing was more fun. Probably this one if I'm being honest because it was a surprise they didn't ask for it and I didn't tell the Fox crew I was doing this and I've wanted to do an MC Fox doodle for a while now it's just really really great to watch these two share their passion for baseball cards. It is heartwarming and smile inducing and all that music is stuff. Hey I promised you a terrible joke and I'm a man of my word so some of you complain that my joke was a little too long last week so I've got a short one this week. Two birds MP bird and MC bird were sitting on a perch. MC looks at MP and says hey you smell fish. So I hope all of your favorite teams win today if they're playing but I know only half the teams can win and if your team loses today hey there's always tomorrow it's a beautiful thing. Baseball is back. Can you tell them a little bit excited? All right there's MC and Rod Caru both doodles were super fun. Two blips closer to my cello and card today thanks for asking me to do this one senior Fox. Thanks everybody for watching like comment subscribe yada yada and we'll catch you next time now go watch some baseball.