The best advice I ever received was from a client lost. Allow me to explain the circumstances.
When I first began freelancing many years ago, I was desperate to earn money because I was a single mom that received no child support. I would take jobs many others turned down because of the short, sometimes even impossible, deadlines. One particular illustration called for me to work all weekend to create an airbrushed background for the center spread of a magazine (this was before computers and Photoshop, of course).
DON’T TAKE A JOB YOU CAN’T DELIVER
The Art Director of a downtown Chicago agency, for whom I’ve worked with before, needed the 18x20” artwork by 8 a.m....