I’m getting a seriously late start here.
My new chair arrived yesterday. While I’d like to show it to you, my office is in #2 son’s bedroom, which is such a dreadful mess that there’s no way I can show you the chair. However, I am sitting in it with my feet on the floor, which suggests that it’s designed for sitting in, rather than perching on.
I got a piece of work from a graphic artists today. It doesn’t work at all. This as never happened before, actually. Normally, I give artists this sort of vague concept of what I want and — amazingly — they provide a wonderful thing far better than anything I was imagining.
Now I don’t quite know what to do. I could just pay and let it go, and not use it. I could ask for changes, but we didn’t negotiate about that ahead of time. I’d rather do changes, myself, but if this is a start-over situation, I don’t want to pay double — the price was already at the edge of my budget. I liked this artist’s portfolio very much.
So I’m not sure what to do, but I’ve spent way to much time this morning messing with it already…
Did you ever get something to replace or fix the art that you can’t use?
Depending on what it is, maybe I could help.
Let me know a little more about what it is, what’s wrong and how it needs to be fixed or redone.
I’ve had the misfortune to work with “artists” who don’t understand the constraints of a job, and that there are certain parts of the art that HAVE to be the way you want them to work. They don’t understand functionality or legibility, and want to create something beautiful. Well, I like to make beautiful things, too, but art has to communicate and be functional, too. At least commercial art does.
@lostarts –
Thank you — I’ll keep that in mind for the future. I’ve decided to try to work with this artist to get it fixed. I bet it’s frustrating for artists to work with someone who’s basically saying “654×164 pixels, match my website, and don’t let it interfere with the text I’m going to put over it.”
As long as you give an idea of how much space thr type will take up and where you want to put it, it’s fine
A commercial artist who claims to not be able to follow those instructions is too lazy to bother or incompetenr!
I’ve had to match other perples art styles on countless occasions, and it ALWAYS has to be the right size!