Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Why A Comic About Illustration?
About the Artist
- Kyle T. Webster
- Currently working on fine art, editorial, book, comic, and advertising assignments- sometimes all at once! Clients: New Yorker, NY Times, LA Times, BusinessWeek, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today...
12 comments:
Very cool.
Make sure you cover the following:
- Having to combine 2 or more of your sketches for one stupendous idea.
- The impossibility of getting actual tearsheets sent out. (I've just started asking for PDFs)
- Artwork being majorly altered after you submit it...
- Your 2" spot being used as a full page illustration
Just for the record, I've been on the giving and receiving end of a lot of these....When I was at my old design studio, we commissioned Jack Unruh for a portrait. We ended up altering the guys hand in photoshop because the client thought it was way too big. We at least let Jack know about it and got his permission to mess with it. Fun stuff!
Tell me this didn't actually happen to you.
Sadly, I have been asked to imitate Craig Frazier, Michael Schwab, Mark Summers, Greg Manchess... and the list goes on. I never did what was asked (and lost some jobs), but I'm happy to say that in a few cases, I was able to do my own thing and things worked out. None of these requests came from editorial ADs - always advertising agencies on a budget.
ad jobs are miserable to work for for that reason. Uggghhhh. Let's get some better clients.
Hell they even put other illustrators work in their comps to you.
It's even more annoying when they have the whole layout sketched out too, and even if it looks naff, and you do something ever so slightly different, that you think is better, they'll still say "would it be possible to..." i.e. just do what the hell they want, ain't worth the grief ;)
Awesome. Totally hilarious (and unfortunately, all too common)!!
You slay man. Can we repost this elsewhere- with credit? It's too true. I loved it.
Hi, CynicDesign,
sure, go ahead and post it (with credit) - glad you like it!
Peace,
Kyle
So glad to have reached this blog (via your The daily figure).
I am sure many ideas are best caught impulsively, in the doodling or sketching stage. The drawings retain a freshness that often you miss in a more polished drawing.
Besides, your project encourages me to try the idea to do some sketch-like comic strips for Secundaris. They had been published for a while in colour (originals in watercolour) in a local newspaper, but the section is now closed and I want to try something more personal to keep the project alive.
Congratulations for your excellent work!
great, great commentary on AD's who try to do the illustrator's job. :-)
great site
Very true...also, they tell you that if you can work with them on a reduced cost they'll remember you later on when they've got a good budget...yea right.
haha yes!
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