For a brief period of time during my sophomore year of college, I was part of a group of artists that would create the portraits for SMU football players’ playing cards. I was assigned to two players, and spent lots of time talking to them to get an idea of their personality and how they should be portrayed. This player loves hunting and fishing with friends, football, country music, and I wanted to portray his masculine personality. I wanted this player to be the focal point of his portrait so I used markers to concentrate the detail, and used watercolor to create a wash of his two favorite colors- red and blue.