client's request:
"I want a very cartoony, kind of fantasy Disney-ish looking illustration of a paint brush dipping in paint."
client's response to 12th (!!!) comp:
"It *still* isn't realistic-looking enough...make it look even more like a photograph."
After 20 comps I was repremanded for not "following the client's original design request."
I will never work for that Fred Flintstone clone again.