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A Note About Requests and Artwork:
16 years ago
*WARNING* These are ALL my views and opinions. You can disagree, but please. no fighting, ok? This is just a little rant, I feel like I needed to get off my chest.
Dearest Furry Fandom,
I felt it a necessity to make a note on here to address everyone in a problem that I encounter almost everyday.
People are becoming more and more intolerable when commissioning artwork. When you commission an artist (be it for a fursuit or traditional artwork, or digital artwork etc.) you DO NOT OWN THE ARTIST! I cant' stress that enough. I've seen it in all sorts of media and have even experienced it myself. i've seen this happen with "Big-Time" commissioners such as famous suit-makers, and even with "Small-Time" artists.
Yes, you and the artist have decided upon an agreement. And both of you want to turn out a good piece of work. but nagging and bothering the artist will not making things better. if anything, it will aggravate the artist and they might come to resent you and the piece of artwork.
Oh, and Ref Sheets. if you have one, great power to you. if you don't, and say "hey look at my FA page for references" and "look at these one or two pictures for my ref" there's BOUND to be some mistakes made. These are not adequate "ref sheets". If you do not have one, I'm not saying that you're a horrible person. none in the least! I'm just saying, if there is then a mistake because of it, don't tweak. Things happen, and the artist wasn't given what they needed to make it EXACTLY how you wanted. Human Error. it happens all the time.
And for fursuits? you NEED a ref sheet! even to give a quote. you NEED a ref sheet. If someone says they need a ref sheet to give you a quote, and you don't have on, get one. Can't afford one? Then can you REALLY afford to be buying a fursuit right now?
Now, REQUESTS. This is the most recent issue that i've come upon in my adventures in the fandom. If an artist agrees to do a request for you. then great! Congrats. BUT that is more of a FAVOR that they are doing for you. If something doesn't do right for you, or something is not right in the picture. I believe it is then up to the artist to decide to change it or not. YOU DID NOT PAY MONEY FOR THIS PIECE OF WORK! CHILL OUT! Especially if the artist says that they will if it, but is very busy at the moment. I believe you can wait a lil bit before he/she fixes it for you. Again... IT'S A FAVOR FOR YOU.
Please Please Please. Then don't say "well I'll just fix it myself!" BIG No-No. Do NOt violate a copyright. I bet you if you give the artist time and ask nicely instead of getting in their face, they'll fix it for you, or give you permission to do so yourself.
So yes. So girl out there might tell you I was being a bitch etc. etc. but I believe all my points were valid. They may have come across as rude because I was merely stating fact that one or two people did not agree with me upon. Guess what? This is America... or better yet... this is the Internet. and I am entitled to express the my views and opinions as I see fit. And that's my stance.
So yeah, those are my views. I know some people may have differing ones and I'm fine with that. But I wanted to get this out there and explain the way I think about things and why I get so aggravated when people start to take offense at artists when something is not done to the specification that they would've liked.
I'm done and off to bed now. Thanks for reading my rant, if you actually read it all ^^
<3 Kotto
Dearest Furry Fandom,
I felt it a necessity to make a note on here to address everyone in a problem that I encounter almost everyday.
People are becoming more and more intolerable when commissioning artwork. When you commission an artist (be it for a fursuit or traditional artwork, or digital artwork etc.) you DO NOT OWN THE ARTIST! I cant' stress that enough. I've seen it in all sorts of media and have even experienced it myself. i've seen this happen with "Big-Time" commissioners such as famous suit-makers, and even with "Small-Time" artists.
Yes, you and the artist have decided upon an agreement. And both of you want to turn out a good piece of work. but nagging and bothering the artist will not making things better. if anything, it will aggravate the artist and they might come to resent you and the piece of artwork.
Oh, and Ref Sheets. if you have one, great power to you. if you don't, and say "hey look at my FA page for references" and "look at these one or two pictures for my ref" there's BOUND to be some mistakes made. These are not adequate "ref sheets". If you do not have one, I'm not saying that you're a horrible person. none in the least! I'm just saying, if there is then a mistake because of it, don't tweak. Things happen, and the artist wasn't given what they needed to make it EXACTLY how you wanted. Human Error. it happens all the time.
And for fursuits? you NEED a ref sheet! even to give a quote. you NEED a ref sheet. If someone says they need a ref sheet to give you a quote, and you don't have on, get one. Can't afford one? Then can you REALLY afford to be buying a fursuit right now?
Now, REQUESTS. This is the most recent issue that i've come upon in my adventures in the fandom. If an artist agrees to do a request for you. then great! Congrats. BUT that is more of a FAVOR that they are doing for you. If something doesn't do right for you, or something is not right in the picture. I believe it is then up to the artist to decide to change it or not. YOU DID NOT PAY MONEY FOR THIS PIECE OF WORK! CHILL OUT! Especially if the artist says that they will if it, but is very busy at the moment. I believe you can wait a lil bit before he/she fixes it for you. Again... IT'S A FAVOR FOR YOU.
Please Please Please. Then don't say "well I'll just fix it myself!" BIG No-No. Do NOt violate a copyright. I bet you if you give the artist time and ask nicely instead of getting in their face, they'll fix it for you, or give you permission to do so yourself.
So yes. So girl out there might tell you I was being a bitch etc. etc. but I believe all my points were valid. They may have come across as rude because I was merely stating fact that one or two people did not agree with me upon. Guess what? This is America... or better yet... this is the Internet. and I am entitled to express the my views and opinions as I see fit. And that's my stance.
So yeah, those are my views. I know some people may have differing ones and I'm fine with that. But I wanted to get this out there and explain the way I think about things and why I get so aggravated when people start to take offense at artists when something is not done to the specification that they would've liked.
I'm done and off to bed now. Thanks for reading my rant, if you actually read it all ^^
<3 Kotto
Number one: they asked them for a request because they knows well to the person who is open for free requests.
Number two: For a good reason they are makin free requests instead of comissions, and just because of that they are mad with that person because they made something that wasn't nice