Wow, that sounds enormously frustrating. I would have blown my top. It sort of reminds me of the problem at my first job out of college where they had offshored a lot of work to a code farm in India and ended up bringing it back in less than two years because of all the delays caused by communication breakdowns and recalcitrance.
I think what we're living through is the very last days of "the illustrator's market." They're gonna go on flaking, overcharging, goofing off and ignoring instructions until AI rips the floor out from under them. I won't shed a tear for most of them when it happens.
Wow, that sounds enormously frustrating. I would have blown my top. It sort of reminds me of the problem at my first job out of college where they had offshored a lot of work to a code farm in India and ended up bringing it back in less than two years because of all the delays caused by communication breakdowns and recalcitrance.
I think what we're living through is the very last days of "the illustrator's market." They're gonna go on flaking, overcharging, goofing off and ignoring instructions until AI rips the floor out from under them. I won't shed a tear for most of them when it happens.
It seems like the biggest hurdle is finding artists willing to follow instructions
Mos def. It’s tied for 1st Place in the Difficulties of Working With Illustrators Rankings along with flaky behavior.