10 Pain Points of Working with Clients (For Illustrators)

For People who Draw a Lot, We Illustrators Don’t Always Draw The Line Where We Should

You may be surprised to learn that illustrators have pet peeves. Crazy, right? I mean, how can people who draw all day for a living have any reason to be annoyed? Well, for starters, it’s a little bit annoying when people think all we do is draw all day, and that our job is easy because it’s unusual and creative. But those aren’t on the list. Our pal Pete Ryan put out a call to illustrators on Twitter, asking what bothers them most when working with clients. A couple posts ago, I wrote about 10 Pet Peeves Art Directors Have When Working with Illustrators (also thanks to a tweet by Pete!). This is the other side to the story: here are 10 pain points, or pet peeves, we illustrators have when working with clients.

10 Monday Deadlines

Strange but true: illustrators take holidays and weekends just like everybody else! While this may seem obvious, it’s not uncommon to be briefed later in the week and asked to turn work around for Monday. Implicit in such a timeline is an assumption that the illustrator will be working through the weekend. When explicitly acknowledged, this pill can be easier to swallow, especially if some additional budget or…