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My mind keeps coming back to Hydro74. Not for the discussions he's prompted so far, but becuase I am amazed and perplexed by someone's abiity to put so much work and time and detail into commercial art.
For a time I had aspirations to be as polished, as dedicated, as driven by (and towards) meticulous and highly detailed perfection in my work.
When I held those aspirations I was at war with my clients constantly. I would craft and sweat blood and dreams to create soemthing amazing and they would say "Can we have the logo bigger, the surfboard should maybe be a helicopter, the scrolls here could be more like flames and over there, and the guy's face... could we have a dog's face, but like a devil, and not on the front but on the back, oh and can you put our logo in the middle, really big. Also, change the colour scheme. And the texture. And the typeface"
And it was that constant battle that I made a conscious decision to give up for the benefit of my health and my relationship. Also, with the steady decline in prices, how does someone like Hydro74 manage to justify spending that amount of time on something that has halved in value every other year?
By far the most I ever got paid for illustration work was the first ever commission I got when I had no work to show anyone to prove my worth. I got paid a fortune and after that its got cheaper and cheaper steadily, and now I only work to a degree that reflects the remuneration.
Two reasons why my portfolio is a stinker. How does someone like that do it? I would have been locked up by now for murdering a client.