Previewing a generally terrible video game has got to be the worst. Forced to act like its fun, all the while being hawked by some studio execs or media relations folk. Today at Kill Screen, part one of four on a series about working as an intern at a video game news website.

See the unedited, more violent version HERE.

Sometimes you have an idea that won’t make the cut in the eye’s of an Art Director. That’s OK. Many illustrations are just new interpretations of ideas that aren’t really that new, so I’m sure one day I’ll be able to let this concept shine for some other job, be it about highway driving, taking your time, or simply, having a giant pet turtle. One day, rejected rough, one day.

It’s not too often that I’m commissioned to do portraits; probably because things found in my portfolio are usually grotesque, barfy, and silly and such. Recently, there was an opportunity for these drawings to be run through the Vancouver Observer, but alas, job got killed last minute.  They were to be incorporated into a discussion between a Vancouver 2010 Olympics critic and  an Olympics Supporter.  Too bad that this is about as far as the illo will ever get, as there was something about these light pencil roughs that I really enjoyed. . .