My biggest joy now is going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee and sketching people there. Altough most of people are ok with us sketching them, a few of them can still get kind of annoyed.
Two jobs that I have been working on are both progressing slowly. One, a chilrden's book of poems has been taking forever; my client kept changing her ideas about my illustrated covers and finding out more errors in her own typing; The other a mural painting is going rough as well. I've found that it is very diffcult for a new graduate to learn quickly on how to deal with the client like a professional. My client said to me after reading it " this looks like it's about everything protecting you.." I went "no, it is protecting both of us." And don't mention that she almost canceled the job and wasn't going to even pay for the design. I guess to her and most other clients, art is something beautiful and valuble; the artist is someone cheap. Far as I know, many freelancing artist make less of a hourly rate than a plumer, not that I have anything against plumers, I am just amazed how people are willing to paying for a plumer's service rather than an artist's. I think all art school should all open up a business course, that would make the art major more practical.
