Nacho Man

earlier this year i did some freelance. mostly for fun cause i was younger and not wiser at all! trying to build my portfolio and make connections.
this one guy kinda suckered me into doing work for him. his concept was a 'nacho man' set along the venice beach. heres his concept he put together:



yuck! what was he thinking???
i wanted to turn it into something more cartoonly and wild, with style and pazazz!
heres some brainstorming i did...





after that, he hated them all and wanted more realistic. wtf? a real nacho chip man?
so anyway i deleveloped more stuff like this...





well anyway, he keep giving me harash deadlines (not only this but for 6 other characters and storyboard backgrounds), and he wanted the final colored piece to be just lines; no lineweight and solid colores (something i never want to see in a cartoon)...



ughhh its so to look at. this is what happens to a deperate artist like me, working with a lawyer who has high hopes with a youngen like me.
but...
it gets worse, surprisingly

this guys name is 'grub'. an old retired homeless clown...






...and heres nacho mans love interest, suzie...





...nacho man's sidekick 'Tako', get it...taco, tako?...




...but wait, nacho man has to have an enemy to pick on, and that guy is Vic, short for Victor Vomit (thats right! his last name is vomit!)...





so for a second i thought i was done with characters, but last minute he tells me to make 2 new characters.
i actually liked this one of a basketball player, but then he tells me after i showed him the sketches that the ball player, whos name is Holmes, to make him into a hotdog...





...and a tattooed gypise named tina...



and lastly i was suppose to do a storyboard work. he wanted full color and had high expectations from it as well. i only did 2 before i ran out of time:



(all colored work done in flash, to save time mainly)

ughhh...thats the end of that.
over worked
underpaid (only $100.00 bucks)
and an embarashment on top of it all.

i learned alot, mostly what not to do, and to follow your own style, cause thats what a client hires you for.