Storyboards are where I got my start 25 years ago. I was fresh out of college, with limited talent, but very fortunate to stumble onto an illustrator named Mark Heath who ran a studio that produced "comp art" for local ad agencies. (Comps are basically quick color sketches for creative presentations.) I showed up at his door with a less-than-stellar portfolio and he asked "Can you draw with markers?". I never had before. "Go buy some markers, do some drawings and come back with them tomorrow." Those drawings landed my first illustration job as a full-time comp illustrator. That kind of opportunity is rare. Since then, a lot of thankful prayers have been said about that first offer to get paid for what I love to do. Without that break, I'd probably still be flipping burgers somewhere. Here are some panels from a very recent comp job I worked on, minus the marker fumes...