Spent so much time to do them up. Nearly jumped up when the 'middleman' Outlook Editorial and Research (OER) emailed me ,when I was in Kuantan few weeks ago.
"The gist of it is that they have a different style in mind, so they sent us some illustration samples from their other publications to show the style that they are looking for. I don't understand why they did not provide us with this from the start, or why they didn't give us this feedback once they saw the initial pencil sketches." as said by OER in their email.
In fact, I was so angry. First, this client saw my portfolio. They knew my style, and chose me for their job. Next, I did the book cover illustration for them. They accepted it happily, meaning the style was accepted too. Now, they saw first done up illustration, and said wanted a different style. What was really ridiculous was that the sketches was sent in different batches, over different time. At this stage, then they said that they have a different style in mind. Faint...............
My guess for this sudden change was that, there was another party came in to takeover the job, just like the job for BCA. Are all gxxxxxx staff do things like that? Grrrrrrr........
Second batch of revised sketches, but still didn't reflect to me on the style they want.
Did this lineart, scanned in and coloured in.
Style I have chosen is flat tone (with minimal shades, original quote was flat tone; added in shades to make it look better, but no surcharge) for the character, and waterbrush strokes with organic edge for the background.
As mentioned above, of course rejected. They said this style was outdated! The reason for me to choose on this style was that there were a lot of scenes in these essays which required expressions. Easier to express in this more realistic style.
Gave them detail style, they don't want. I think of another simpler style.
Guess what?
Email received from OER:-
"Thanks very much for the illustration. We really like it, and more importantly, the client really likes it (client says: "Great! this looks very nice. I'm happy to go with this style.")."
Happy? Yes, but nearly vomited blood.
Tell me earlier, and would have saved all parties lots of time, and effort on my side.
Anyway. We got the green light to move on.
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