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Fri 10 Apr, 2009 01:39 am
If you've been freelancing for a publishing company doing illustration work for the last five years and built up a good relationship with them, but a new art director comes in and even though you call and introduce yourself and have sent samples of what you have done for that company, the new AD tells you that they have you on file and after ten months still no word. THE QUESTION: does one keep sending new art samples and drop a keep me in mind email or do you become a pest and kill your chances of any future work....
Send the samples and the note. Keep their memory of your work refreshed. If they haven't given you any business in ten months, they may have forgotten all about you. Or the new director may have favorites to rely on instead of you, or they may not like your style. In either case, you won't lose anything by sending them something new, and you may get some biz by jogging their elbow. Or the .new guy might have been a total incompetent and they've canned him or her and the new new director doesn't know anything about you, so you should send them something. Doesn't look like they're going to use you under the present circumstances, so what've you got to lose by changing the circumstances a bit?
@MontereyJack,
Exactly. He's got nothing to lose. Not to rule out other buyers, by any means.
Continue to send your promo. You just never know...
Have you noticed a different in style, now that the new art director is there? Can you see any changes in the work they're producing? If so, show them that you can do that too.
eoe is right. Perhaps "your" style is not what this new person is looking for. Can you show you are versitile in your style - or are you locked in as far as your look goes.
Try to figure out if you fit with this new person's vision. Ask for a sit-down with him/her and see what she's looking for.
(If it's been 5 months, then what else have they been producing? )
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