A client told me my character's eyes looked like 'wet olives'

I was finishing a portrait commission last month, and the client sent back a note saying the eyes I'd painted looked 'like sad, wet olives.' I'd spent hours on the iris texture, but they were right, the color was totally off. I scrapped that layer and just sampled a color from a photo of my own eye instead. Now I always check eye colors against a real reference photo before calling anything done. Has a weird bit of feedback ever made you completely redo a part of your art?

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anthonygarcia2mo ago

My sunset looked like a melted crayon once.

charles3262mo ago

Wet olives" is so specific, my friend had a client call their sunset "dirty ketchup.