when focus groups attack
No one sees my drawings before I submit them to the client. Once in a very blue moon I'll ask the BF for advice if I'm having some issue, but this almost never happens.
Except for last week. I wasn't liking my latest Blotter creation, so I showed him what I had so far.
He hated it. As in, absolute disgust. Hated the colors, didn't get the conceit, despised the background.
Thanks, Sugar.
I went back to the PowerBook and recast the image with his suggestions in mind. Here are the two drawings, one pre-critique, one after. Which one do you think I sent to the paper?
Blotter: The owner of a Church's Chicken on Auburn Avenue ...
Except for last week. I wasn't liking my latest Blotter creation, so I showed him what I had so far.
He hated it. As in, absolute disgust. Hated the colors, didn't get the conceit, despised the background.
Thanks, Sugar.
I went back to the PowerBook and recast the image with his suggestions in mind. Here are the two drawings, one pre-critique, one after. Which one do you think I sent to the paper?
Blotter: The owner of a Church's Chicken on Auburn Avenue ...
3 Comments:
I think the lower one was the original, and the one you ended up submitting. I think the top illustration is the one altered after your bf gave his two cents. Am I right? I think the lower one works best with the article, because the border creates a shattered glass window (that the van drove through). The other illo is more pleasing as far as the color relationships go, but the bottom one has more of an intense, "shattered" quality.
You're right — and wrong. The lower one was the revised version. The BF didn't like the face in the upper left, saying it felt out of place with the other two people. He also didn't like the color scheme, calling it "a Trapper Keeper" template.
I agree with you: The shattered glass in the lower one works better with the article itself. But I still sorta like the top one better for some reason.
Oh well. You can't please everyone.
I think the tell tale sign was your logo signature at the bottom of the second one. Not to mention it looks print ready.
Speaking of "Trapper Keeper," I finally convinced the powers at be to cover up the TK style art at L'Jungle. Oh, the things a queen can do with stretch fabrics.
I always think of you when I walk past the flamingos. Eerie.
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