"Cave of Pills" illustration / painting

16 x 20" acrylic paint on canvas panel. This is stuck inbetween being an illustration for some magazine article on prescription drugs and an actual free-standing-narrative painting . Later it became a more rational painting with a slightly different subject. I also did some "painting as illustration" work. The money is alway$ good (the IDEA that someone is paying you for your artwork is actually BETTER than money!) .
Alas, this can be unfulfilling because conceptually, someone is looking over your shoulder and telling you what you CAN or CAN'T do. That is a bummer. EMERGING ARTIST LESSON #5: No matter what you are doing; even if it's for someone else--pretend that it's for YOURSELF--it will always come out better.