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Re: Hello    Advice / Direction required to help 'lift' a 'flat' illustration quick

FWIW, I have found that depending on the level of openness and artistic freedom you have in your relationship with the client, sometimes it helps to offer them three or four options ranging from "minor changes to what you saw previously" all the way up to "going completely bonkers" (LOL) explaining that it's trivial to change things like brightness, contrast, saturation of any step in the sequence. 

I find this presentation technique particularly useful if you show them the version you actually prefer in the middle of the sequence, so that by comparison, the version you (secretly) favor seems the perfect compromise between being too bland and too much.  Attached is an animated GIF example of this approach.  The captions on each image should give you an idea of the efx I applied at each step along the way.

HTH,

Tom M