FAILIOR: LCD ORIGINS

The Origins of FAILIOR:

As the founder of the League, I feel it's time to unveil my beginnings in the field of Customer Dissatisfaction. In all honesty, I took pictures of all my first rejects in chronological order (yes, I'm that geeky). But when I tried to upload them today, my computer had a seizure, and a little less than half of the drawings evaporated, in no apparent order (?). Since I've already packed them all back up in storage, I'm not in the mood to do it all over again. So, this is an abbreviated history of Failior...

First Reject:
I think I went about 3-4 weeks before my first reject, amazingly, and this was it. I was so fascinated by it and self-critiqued it the rest of that day. All in all, looking back at it is strange because it's not all that bad. I remember that girl and the only thing I really messed up on was her eyes. At any rate, the family hated it, and convinced her that she hated it, too.

The really funny thing is that the rejects kept getting worse instead of better!

Oh, Lord... this is awful in every way:


This surfer girl reject hurt at the time... I thought I had done a great job. At least the mom was polite to me...

... unlike the dad of these kids:
He was a major dick, even though I was giving him a discount (it was like $10 for the whole thing or something).

From then on, my rejects weren't so epically horrible. Here's another sketch I did for a huge discount ($10), and they still rejected it because they thought I made the wife, "look like a man because I was giving them a discount."

If I was desperate to sell a picture, why would I purposefully make it bad? The woman was actually kind of fat, and I felt like I slimmed her down some. Whatever.

So, that's the tainted origins of FAILIOR, and some of my first rejects. Happy sketching!