Hi,
when the Artist enters the market and meets with clients to do artwork for them,
now, do you guys see any challenge or fight between what the client (non-artist) wants and what the artist sees !!!???
how the artist should behave towards this???
I hope u see what I’m saying
thanks
Communication is the key I suppose and being as we’re not all mind readers, that can be difficult. If you’re approached to do work for someone who’s not an artist, if there’s something you don’t understand about the persons request you should ask questions to better understand what image you’re being asked to visualize and build. If the person gets difficult with you on that end, refer them to someone else who’s got more patience, or hasn’t developed any negative feelings torwards working with that person.
Well if what you say and do makes sense to the client it might make sense to more people and it’ll work commercially. If he agreed and it didn’t sell, you’re out of business. If you can’t tell why you want to do somehing, there’s no point for the client to listen and if you don’t know why you’re doing it, you should consider therapy or having yourself institutionalised. 
so u’r with me Golden,
It’s a primary talent that the artist should have,
which is reading the client’s mind and know what he wants, and provide it in an artistic way, that makes him happy, and makes you kind of satisfied.
I’m I right??!!
Always approach the project from the point of view of the client’s needs. Here’s an example:
A client wants you to design a menu for his new restaurant. Your own preference is for really elegant and sophisticated designs, and you personally have no interest in doing other types of designs. However, the client’s restaurant is a low-priced hamburger joint, and the people who go there are not the type who would usually go to a elegant and sophisticated restaurant. So, your duty would be to design a menu that appeals to the type of people who goes to low-priced burger joints, despite your personal preference. So, either you work with the client, or you decline the project altogether. Trying to push your personal preference on the project would be a bad idea.
There ARE times however when a client just doesn’t know what’s appropriate and effective for his product, and if you feel that you have better suggestions, then present them to the client. However, don’t try to shove it down the client’s throat–if they don’t like it, they just don’t. And don’t ever insult the client by making it seem like you are better educated on the matter and that they are clueless. If the client has the foresight and the proper education, he should be able to see the merit in your ideas, but if not, then you need to reconsider if he’s the type of client you want to continue relationships with. If you really need the money, then just swallow your pride and do what he wants.
I work in a sign shop and this happens all the time. You make 2 designs where one is clearly better than the other and the customer invariably picks the worse design. They aren’t artists. The best artists are the worst sign makers.
Commissions really depend on how much creative leeway the customer gives you. I usually will sit down with the customer for an hour and beat it out of them over the course of 100 questions on what they want. Then I come back with some really light sketches and try to get their approval before proceding. I’ve had to redo finished pieces more than once so i’m careful now. Ultimately, its about pleasing the customer. You make them happy, you get paid and you get more work. When you do an art job, its not about what YOU want to do. Just by offering yourself up as a freelance artist, you’ve already given up a degree of creative freedom. If you can’t deal with that, then find something else to pay the bills so you can do what you want in your spare time. Thats what I do, I have a computer art degree but I work as tech support for a sign franchise and I accept that because it lets me go home and have 100% creative freedom over my art. I do do occasional freelance for the extra $$$ though.
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