Sam Castle Color Rough Art

Sam Castle Color Rough Art shows the painted working stage behind All-New Series 6, when Luis Diaz turned a tight pencil concept into a color rough before the card art was finished.

That rough was made for cards 28a Sam Castle and 28b Crushed Kayla, and the art changed quite a lot before printing, because Topps wanted the character pushed toward a more castle-like look. The color rough was used to settle the colors, lighting, shading, and readability before the final art went any further, and the archive note says the concept would have been one of the best in the series if it had stayed closer to this version.