I knew the day was going to come when someone would come to me with a Microsoft Paint job of a design and ask me to reference it as the holy grail . This was the day. I accepted on the condition that the client would give me my own freedom to "adjust" however I'd liked.
I was honestly so lost just looking at the brief the client gave me. I made sure to set aside time to completely understand what the client wanted before I even started. I laid out the concrete expectations as what could be done and what could not be done, especially with the extremely tight budget they had.
Honestly, after I was done, it felt like the 10-year transformation picture. I was surprised myself how far I could go with a Microsoft Paint slide as the holy grail.