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^ Mr100, was it this pieces?
If so, I was compensated for it but it was meant to be a black and white across a spread with the article's text columns placed around the different parts of the illo. It was all worked out with the designer at GQ and designed to perfectly fit his spread layout.
At the last minute GQ uk said they wanted to put a rainbow colour effect over the illo, which was the first horrible thing that happened, and then all the other GQ's like Australia and Romania, India etc all commissioned a re-print but did it as a half single page, so it looks like shit. They're all sending me files copies with compliment slips saying "It looks really lovely!" and it beggars belief really because it looks like an abomination.
THis is my big big problem really. I don't seem to be able to retain control over my work and it more often than not gets mashed up horribly by editors before going to print no matter how carefully I go about agreeing the illo up front. I just don't know how other illustrators manage to retain control and get nice consistent work into print, I really don't.
Last year every single book cover I tried to create had a disco ball forced into it by various editors at various publishing houses aroudn the world. It was like a memo had gone round saying "Disco Balls Sell Books" because no matter what the genre of book I was doing, no matter what age group or subject matter, I would be forced to take a promising illustration and obliterate it with a giant disco ball. In the end I just dropped the same disco ball into each one.
Its just not my destiny I guess!