Lately I've noticed a complaint among Artists and it more often times than not revolves around those who commission them. To which some may say, but Cloneclone! They're getting paid! This is a job! They should suck it up and be happy they have customers!
Yeah well, when someone in retail or customer service gets bitched out for things that aren't their fault, they have all rights to be disgruntled. As do Artists.
Money doesn't equal happiness, and rude customers make one question humanity.

I know I've said this time and time again, but I never feel like I can say it enough. Artists are people, not art machines. Some Artists are fast, some Artists are slow, some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in a pot nine days old. Some Artists have hard lives, they have other jobs, they have abusive parents, they have shoddy work environments, they have noisy roommates. They don't like having rude customers to play cherry to their melting ice cream.

Things you should probably consider not doing (Y'all may argue this if you like, but this is what I've collected from various artists):
-Do not roleplay out your commission request. Artists don't want a story about a couple of OCs they don't know doing some sort of fetish they're not into. You want X and X doing X? Just say it! You do not need to write a story about it. If you want to write a story, once the art is done, post the picture on your gallery and add the story there!
-If the Artist says they're not doing commissions... they're not doing commissions. Please do not respond to the note with, 'WELL IF YOU DO START DOING COMMISSIONS AGAIN, here is what I want.' You know what that makes the Artist not want to do? Your commission. Even when they open up again, they don't want to do it.
-HAGGLE PRICES! ESPECIALLY WHEN THE ARTIST HAS SPOKEN ABOUT MONEY ISSUES. If you don't want to spend X amount of money on art, then DON'T. Find ANOTHER Artist with prices you like and commission THEM. UNLESS the Artist has offered they will haggle, don't nickle and dime them.
-'Can we change this?' ... Might sound like a tedious peeve, but when you've got one person who is constantly saying, 'Can we change the color to...', 'Can we make the pose...', 'Can we...', there is no we. The Artist is the one doing the work, not you.
-WHEN THE ARTIST GIVES YOU A SKETCH, ASK FOR ALL THE CHANGES YOU WANT THERE! There has been SO many times where an Artist has shown the sketch, gotten the A-OKAY to continue, and then the Commissioner asks for X thing to be changed. You HAD your chance to change it in the sketch and you said nothing. Now the piece has been inked, colored, shaded, completed- and now you want the pose changed? Be courteous enough to offer extra at least.
-When you give a ref, make sure it's accurate. If you show a picture of a brown dog, the Artist is going to draw a brown dog. Do not expect the Artist to magically know the dog ALSO has wings and purple stripes. You need to either TELL THEM or have a ref WITH that.
-'Here is 10 different notes I sent in the time span of 5 minutes elaborating what I want instead of taking time to put everything I want in one note'... If you want to add more and forgot, that's fine! But making an artist sift through 10 different notes is hell.
-'Hey I know you said you don't do X, but can you...' the answer is no. The answer will always be no. No.
-'You done yet? How about now? Okay, now? Are we there yet? I need to go potty. Can we get Mc'Donalds? You done yet?' Asking for a reminder here and there is COMPLETELY OKAY!!! Maybe the Artist DID forget! Maybe it's been a month and you're just trying to communicate! That's okay! But if you're sending a note every day, you might need to chill your roll.
-If you ask an Artist to draw your character, and sometime between then and the finished picture you decide to SELL that character... miiiight be nice to warn them about that.
-'I don't feel like paying you anymore even though you finished the picture', you're the reason why artist take payment first you obtuse rubber goose.
-If Artist is not comfortable drawing X, do not strong arm Artist into drawing X. I am sorry the Artist does not share an interest in your fetish, or is unable to draw your fetish, but that's how the cookie crumbles.
- 'Hey, do anything you want!' followed by, 'Except for that' once the piece is done.
-Leaving shouts/comments on unrelated journals/comments on other commissions posted/anything unrelated to the piece you commissioned is considered harassment and you should probably look into not doing that.

And that's all she wrote.
For now.
Bumbumbum.
(But seriously, Artists are people too. Touch up on your empathy skills!)

Note: The 'You' used in this journal is not you, the reader, but the general population.
(However if any of this applies to you, you should proooobably consider stopping)