Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Scrapped!



Here's a commissioned caricature for a lawyer guy. I am not going to share the final art because...
there isn't going to be a finished one! I didn't get good reference to draw from but managed to get a good likeness. I included a number of gags that were asked for. Just not what the client envisioned. I am envisioning next time a client similar to this one needs to pay at least half up front. My bad. Good drawing practice...meh.

4 comments:

ZackWallenfang.com said...

This makes me even more glad that I rejected a job after I said I'd do it. It was last year, also a gift for a retiring lawyer. I didn't feel so bad since they didn't need it for a month (and hey, no contract or paperwork!). I just had a bad feeling about it. The reference photo was crap, and they wanted some stupid back story/inside joke incorporated, along with a grocery list of other things. I hate, hate, hate this kind of stuff. I'd rather spend time on my own stuff that currently isn't making me any money.

robb miller said...

Preach on brother! I should've found a lawyer to make me a contract to do this kind of work!

FrankenBarry said...

Not what the client envisioned? Your blogg is full of samples, and your sketches are totally consistent with those samples... how could it not be what he envisioned?! In lieu of payment, I think he should volunteer his legal services, and sue himself for the money he owes you!

As form of therapy, I recommend that you finish it, and go over-the-top vicious/extreme with exaggeration and gags... guaranteed to make you feel better!

robb miller said...

I think that it is possible that the client was blind. I do not want to discriminate against someone who is 'vision challenged.'

I like the idea of adding my emotion into the piece to enrich it to what I am envisioning!