Tonight at the Tuesday Night Gamers club, I played a game called St. Petersburg where you buy various cards that either give you more money or more points and only do so during certain rounds. Stavros and I had never played, so we got trounced by Alex and Jay, longtime players. As it turns out, Jay was one of the co-designers of the game, a fact he hadn’t mentioned.

Then I got further schooled in Carcassonne, one of my favorite new games. I had been scoring the roads and cities incorrectly all this time. Jay publishes Carcassonne, so he’d know. He won that game too.

I gave him a portfolio of my artwork. Today I even mocked up a Carcassonne-esque set of tiles and put that in there. Thought it might amuse him. I’m not sure my style is a fit for Rio Grande Games, but we’ll see.

Sometimes, despite my best intentions, I’ll start work on an image for a client and, rather than creating a useful graphic, art appears on the screen instead.

The three women lived in a slanted camper with one wheel, out by the old baseball field. On certain nights bonfires rose up in right field and small animals would go missing from the neighborhood. On the night the camper burned, Bobby Monroe said he could see faces in the flames, laughing.

We had been warned never to open the gate that separated our back yard from the shores of Elysium.

“Do not play near it, children,” said my mom, wagging her finger. “You should spend your free time at the mall with all the cool kids and study their cool ways.”

Of course, I did not listen.

Dave from Chub Creek was kind enough to mention me and plug my site in the latest episode (#9). I designed an ad that’s on their site now, the one with the light bulb. Dave and Gary have a highly amusing show full of great music, self-effacing humor, and an honest sensibility which I find very engaging. You listen to them and you just know these are good guys.

Check them out at the Chub Creek site.

In the spirit of Songs to Wear Pants to and to expand my artistic horizons, I’d like to present a little something I call Drey’s Whack Graffix. The concept is this: you send me a request for some kind of graphic along with the medium/style or whatever other specifications you think of, and I will do my best to create that image. These graphics will appear in my gallery on deviantART.

While the graphic may be useful, it can’t be something I would ordinarily get paid for. For instance, I will not make a logo and/or business card for your company, but I WILL make a logo for a fictional interstellar warp drive manufacturer.

The request should be small in scope, like a single image, not “a graphic novel series about a family of magic turtles.”

I’m also interested in doing more involved collaborations of any kind with other artists, musicians, writers and creative types.

So there you go.

I have an art and writing gallery over at deviantART with all my latest stuff!

Yeah, it’s been a while since I updated…

I’ve got some new items up in the gallery on Rogue Factor, so check it out!

The new Rogue Factor site is online now!