Way back in '82 i wanted to try doing sf & fantasy magazine and book illustration....i think i only sent the portfolio out to a couple magazines....no bites.Then later got work in animation - and then i started getting illustration job offers but was too busy to take most of them! :(

i did end up doing a bit of illustration work over the years for Twilight Zone, Weird Tales, Midnight Grafiti, etc... Some of those are back in print in new collections.

This was a variant illo from an image on this page :
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40939848/