Here's an old blast from the past...
This was to be a cover illustration for a certain New York Gaming Magazine to illustrate the featured editorial exposing the exploitation of women in the video gaming industry. Needless to say, while they LOVED the piece once it was finished and approved the progress through all the editorial stages, when it came time to go to press... they hadn't the testicular fortitude to follow through with the idea and ran a tame photo instead.
As a sort of lame compensational gesture, the magazine owner offered to buy the original artwork after the whole debacle (he gushed about the piece as soon as he saw the thing)... but the price he offered for the original painting was so insulting I actually burst into spontaneous laughter in his office! I told him that even if he offered double that price, I wouldn't have sold it to him on principal...
What an utter douchebag...
Anyway, here it is in it's lackluster glory... enjoy.
4 comments:
Looks good, Greg- too bad you had to deal with the predictable, lame, cliche art-direction.
Looks good, Greg- too bad you had to deal with the predictable, lame, cliche art-direction.
Yup... but it was fun to do regardless.
Nice piece...I can understand why they didn't run it, though..it is pretty racy. Guy sounds like the usual idiot, though.
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