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Freelance Freedom #144



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N.C. Winters is always drawing. When he isn't making comics, doodling or working as a freelance graphic artist, he spends his time painting pretty pictures for galleries from his home studio in sunny southern California.


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  1. PG desaturated
    February 22nd

    love vs work. some people still couldn’t get that right.

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  2. PG Nathan
    February 22nd

    Life, oh life :) . No matter what you do, you will encounter this kind of people…

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  3. PG Nick Burd
    February 22nd

    LMAO, this is awesome. I love these comics, i look forward to them.

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  4. PG Mosotomoss
    February 22nd

    That is too funny!

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  5. PG Anne Wayman
    February 22nd

    Funny, sad, typical and you know what? It might even work.

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  6. PG adam
    February 22nd

    haha nice

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  7. PG Filosof
    February 22nd

    MUHEHE :-)

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  8. PG hernan
    February 22nd

    hahhaa

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  9. PG Neal Chester
    February 22nd

    This is awesome and on point. Circumstances like these lead me to be more of a teacher. People need to understand that their family’s designs aren’t professional. Sometimes we’re scared to even tell them – for fear of losing them. But I believe the truth is the best.

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    1. PG MikeMcD
      February 22nd

      I wish more people shared this sentiment. It’s troubling that so many designers now go along with the craziest client demands out of fear of losing the client. I’m more inclined to believe that a client will respect you and your work more if you really challenge them to analyze their decisions and make judgements that are in the best interests of their business, putting personal feelings aside. As tough as it can be to try explaining to a client why your design direction is solid and their daughter’s isn’t, in the end you are more likely to lost the client if you follow them down a road of bad choices.

      If you challenge the client on their tendency to go with personal feelings, you could possibly offend them and lose them. But if you follow them down a road of bad design decisions and deliver a sub-par final product, you will almost definitely lose them.

  10. PG Nicole Foster
    February 22nd

    Luckily I haven’t had this happen yet, but the comic is still funny.

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  11. PG FreelanceApple
    February 22nd

    lol, hillarious. I recently wrote a post on clients and how they can be annoying. The guy in the cartoon (literally) illustrates how irritating some clients can be! lol, nice one!

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  12. PG MikeMcD
    February 22nd

    It’s frightening that this scenario plays out so often. Last time for me was about a month ago. Client tells me that she was on board with the design approach, until her daughter looked at the designs and didn’t like them. Back to square one…

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    1. PG Q
      February 23rd

      Had that happen to me too but It was the clients wife not Daughter.

    2. PG Pier2Design
      February 24th

      Same here. About a month ago I was on the phone with a client reviewing some logo revisions and I could hear his mom loudly stating opinions in the background.

      How does it go? Committees kill creativity.

  13. PG Originalspirit
    February 22nd

    haha, Love it!

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  14. PG Klepto
    February 23rd

    Hopefully the business is children clothes or something. XD
    Hilarious as always. :3

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  15. PG Daniel Bidmon
    February 24th

    The same here! :-D

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  16. PG Travis
    February 24th

    Haha love this!

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  17. PG Just...B
    February 25th

    Too funny!

    and…

    “Committees kill creativity”

    literally just had this happen!!! ugh!

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  18. PG Zbysek
    March 4th

    I experienced almost the same with one of my clients. Kind of painful for the ego.

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