#1359: Being a Magic Artist

Mark Rosewater· Host0:01

I'm pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another Drive to Work. Okay, so I have had many hats in my time at Wizards. I've done many jobs, um, but there's one job that I still can't believe that I, not only have I done, that I continue to do, which is being an artist. Um, I, I need to stress I have no artistic ability whatsoever. I did not go to art school. I do not know how to draw very well. Um, but yet, so far, I'm on nine different cards, and there's more coming. How did this happen? Why, why do they keep making me draw? Uh, that's today's topic. Okay, so let's get, let's go back to the, to the beginning, to the origin of my illustrious illustration career. So we have to go back to Unglued, uh, which came out in 1998. So one of the things that we were trying to do in Unglued was we lo- wanted a lot of jokes on every level. Um, and so we were looking for a lot of cool and different ways to do art. We had art that broke the box. We had art that, you know, interacted in weird ways. There was art that went off one card onto another card. So one of the ideas that I thought would be funny was one of our cards,