Frustrated by a client?

[wizard509]

Rignt on Paul and xtom, I think #10 says a lot at least the text does not the image. The image gives a false impression I think. I don't remember the old saying but it is something like "10% inspiration and 90% perspiration."

[angelize]

Here is one "Just get the image from my website, but can you make it look crisp and clear in print?"

Oh and " I want the smallest ad space but I want 4 paragraphs of copy, artwork and my logo nice and big!"

[Gamerprinter]

My local graphics shop is in kind of a hiatus status in that I am trying to convert from local customers to strictly serving the roleplaying game industry creating maps and map objects. Why? Because business is down, and I am sick and tired of serving local customers who all give me the grief as presented in the above article. I am essentially shutting my local business down (handling only the fewest of customers, and those that give me the least grief.) While there is some back 'n forth communication in creating an artistic map for publishers, really I am in control here, not the publisher. As long as the publisher has a rough draft version of what he wants in a map, along with textual description, and knowing which of my artistic styles they prefer (hand-drawn, hand-drawn digital hybrid, digital only) - those are the only options clients get to have. Running a graphics company catering the gaming industry is much less grief than dealing with typical customers. I'm done with typical customers.

I had a customer once that needed an alteration to a stain-glassed window design. The design was square 20" x 20", the window was rectangular at 24" x 16", but the customer didn't want me to stretch the design, nor crop off the top and bottom.... (teeth grinding). So I added to the design on the left and right side with content that wasn't included in the original, just to fill the space. I first tried to describe the customer this, "remember when you were a kid and there was a wooden puzzle where you place star, circle, triangle, square shaped blocks into frame with cut-outs for each shape? A square block won't fit in a rectangular hole (in most cases) - this is the exact same problem..."