ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes...
An illustration done for a magazine article about fussy clients in the illustration industry. Change after change, the wasted money starts piling high. From a creative point of view, the life, spontaneity and enthusiasm gets sucked out of the job.
Set to be published in Empty magazine next March, with the article written by the very talented Matt Jackson, who also happens to be (among other things) one of my agents from illustration agency, The Drawing Book.
posted by Chris Wahl at 9:52 AM
18 Comments:
looks like your letting out a little pent up frustration with this one....very nice
Strong drawing!
A hell that illustrator has some BIG pencils ;)
Hey Chris, great illustration and Empty is a great little magazine! I know that feeling as well. Client changes can be a pain and when the client is fuzzy, those changes can be hell!
Man ! I just lived through a gig like that . I call it 'drive though art '.
Geat pic.
Arghh!!!! damn spelling , I meant 'Drive through art' and great pic.
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(Great drawing!)
Ho God you're absolutely right, Great pice
je je je execellent!!!
(I'm a big Ziggy Stardust fan BTW...I do Moonage Daydream with my band :D )
Aren't all clients like that... ?
This is fantastic, I love it. And absolutely true - out of all my clients (at the company) the germans are the worst when it comes to changes. :P and its about minor things like - "make this color a little darker, and this shape more oval, not so round, and these letters a bit smaller and thicker". Bluah. :P
lol... killer illo chris!! :) my first experience with that was when i was 18 years old doing work experience at a local ad agency. i had to draw a cartoon pencil with eyeballs, big goofy smile, arms etc. the client had a focus group look at the ad and too many folks thought it looked like a banana! that was my first 'freak-out' over client changes. "why the f**k would they think it was a banana??!!! the curve isn't that extreme!!! aghhh!!!..." oh the memories! ;) lol
Fanastic illustration, the demonic art director is great! You've got some tremendous work here, thanks for sharin'.
I don't think any artist has ever brought so much clarity but at the same time chaos to my writing Chris.
You are the best at what you're asked to do and I'm yet to find anything that you fear when it comes to drawing...
Oh perhaps 4 deadlines at once.
; )
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Hey, thanks everyone! Looks like this was a subject that many of you could relate to. Enjoyed reading some of your experiences. Luckily I've only had a small handful of difficult clients...but saying that, they were quite a handful (if you know what I mean).
ale- Yeah, big Bowie fan. Only really been getting into him recently, but I think the seeds were planted a long time ago, when as a kid I discovered Bowie's Scary Monsters in my dad's LP collection.
Matt- Thanks mate. Yeah, no matter how much my job deadlines are evenly spread out, they always end up discreetly co-ordinating themselves to be due on the same day. It's a conspiracy I tells ya! :)
You Rock!!
damn you're good...
Aw shucks, thanks Wouter.
Damn you're good. Dou you ever make something that is not magnificent?
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