7. “You should be able to crank that out in no time.”
Really? You actually have determined the exact amount of time it takes for me to find inspiration for an idea, sketch it out, do final pencils and or inks and color and or paint it? Wow. What do you need me for if you’re so smart? Oh, I’m just the “talent.”
6.”I don’t know what I want, I only know what I don’t like.”
After 50 to 100 hundred hours of work, they finally approve the art and suddenly ask, “You want how much for the final art?” Really?
5. “How come you don’t know how to work on a car?”
My ex father-in-law asked me that. I asked him back, “How come you can’t draw a portrait of someone and make it look exactly like them? Ooooooh…same reason.”
4. People who act like what I do is a nifty hobby.
3. Women who like the idea of dating an artist.
2. “Man, I can’t draw a stick figure.”
Someone who looks at my work, and the first thing they think to say is that, well, it really doesn’t annoy me. Honestly, I am glad, as that is one less person I have to compete with to get a job.
1. “Here’s the photo of my kid. Make sure to make him look good.”
If nature and a photo can’t do it, I can’t either.