perhaps fill half of your slots with first come first serve and the other half with the ideas/characters you really like!

I can take 3 slots per a round, dividing 3 to half would take 1 or 2 with first come would be ...funny.

hmm, good point @.@
Maybe have alternate rounds? Like, if your current batch is first come, then your next batch should be the ideas you pick!

Hmmm... such a coony one The idea is promising so far, I like it.

I've seen folks have a mix of first come first serve slots, neat character slots, and auction slots before. Having auction slots might actually draw the attention of rich lurker types as they'll be less eager to jump on the first come first serve slots in a timely manner as they'll have options.

In the end though, what ever system you go for, if people cause drama its their fault, not yours. So feel free to ignore their whines.

I wouldn't really ignore them unless they sound really unpleasant after a while and gets bored to read them. It's my concern as long as they behave and show the sign of well mannered behaviour.

The most common means of choosing fair comissions is to have everyone interested contact you, then use a dice or random number picker to select who gets it. This method is the most fair, but may turn a lot of buyers off.

A second method is a money-time-queue. Basically, a comission starts at a certain 'minimum' price that gets you put into a queue, first-come first-serve, however you can pay more to get bumped up the queue. It doesn't give the buyer anything more, it just increases their priority so theirs gets done first- this gets the artist more money in exchange for higher speed. This method rewards those who are most eager, or wealtheir.

Next, there is also the price-up tier. Basically, you take any and all comissioners starting at a minimum rate, and if it goes over a certain amount (say, the first mark is 10), the price goes up for each additional comissioner, and continues to go up at each new mark (Like 10, 25, 50, 100, etc). This way people can pay more to get into the queue automatically, OR just wait for a while until the queue clears up and go for a lower price. It goes in order of the queue, so the first to come get done first and cheapest- followed immediately after by the next price tier that gets worked on before more are accepted at any price tier. This method favors the people who are either patient, or come first.

And lastly is the Iron-Artist method. You just take every comissioner, and divide them up into multiples. For example, if you have 30 comissioners, divide them into three groups of 10- then work on each in a row. So, the first pick in each of the 10 stacks, then the second, etc. This greatly reduces the likelyhood that there's any favoring to people who came first or lurked, and allows you to switch up and maximize your comission list.


Of course there's also just picking who you want, but this makes people think you're picking favorites and can upset them.

Money talks,

HOWEVER

You are the artist, and you do not have to be fair.
I recommend deciding who draw and how to put off.

Of course I have my own right to choose my personal preference taste out from the contestants, even if some people will surely hate me for a lifetime. I still don't like solutions if there are at least 1 mistake.

Well, deal. Because some furry is gonna bitch about not getting their slot.
Fair is an IDEA, and IDEAS can't be realized. So don't try too hard to be fair.

Iron-Artist is the thing I don't even wanting to do, because it's too much to me, considering I promised someone doing a group picture with 13-15 characters on it. I rarely gets back to it and continues some little. I'm still at its sketch phase even for the linearted and coloured fine-shaded version it takes bazillion care and time.

The dice sounds fair, but how can I show people if it really happened unless from an RPG Dice roller chatroom?

"Of course there's also just picking who you want, but this makes people think you're picking favorites and can upset them." - Now that Is true.

Really, no matter what option, someone will be upset. So it's all about being as fair as YOU want to be. The most TRULY fair is the dice.


in other news, i'd love to comission you sometime. =B

There is no 'perfect' solution to this issue, because all forms of opening/selling slots tend to have drawbacks. Raffle slots? Personal preference?

In this case of stalemate resolution I'd choose the least of the worse.
Some people will surely hate me, but I'll try survive.

You'll just have to brush off the detractors because regardless it'll still happen and just keep doing art fun.

I have seen a lot of artists do a journal where they get everyone interested in buying a commission, then get them to posts refs, and picks the ones they like. People don't seem to care that much about it.

why not 1 auction, 1 first, and 1 for idea?

Now you've GOT me! http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l.....ib3wo1_400.jpg

Hmm... Esetleg próbálj meg úgy viszonyulni hozzá, mintha egy fizetett szolgáltatás lenne! Elvégre az is. Abból valóban csak dráma lesz, ha te magad ítélsz a munkáik fölött. Lehet, hogy egy mocsok szemét pénzeszsák már a sokadik képét rendeli tőled, de fizet érte, a pénznek pedig Vespasianus óta nincs szaga. :)


A trade értelemszerűen egy külön világ. Mivel egyik félnek sincs anyagi haszna belőle, csak a másik és a munkái iránt érzet tisztelet az, ami hajt.

Eddig Saga ötlete az ami nagyon elgondolkodtatott.

"A trade értelemszerűen egy külön világ. Mivel egyik félnek sincs anyagi haszna belőle, csak a másik és a munkái iránt érzet tisztelet az, ami hajt." - Ez az amit évek óta se tudtam megfogalmazni, és ezért tartok többre egy art trade-et avval, akivel el is fogadom.

-Akitől el is fogadod, ez a lényeg.

what I find is that there is a lot of lurking commissioners who take multiple slots by jumping on the first come first serve, and take up the spots that others may try to get. I think you could do a limit on number of commission per person per number of slot openings. it would be fair for others to get a chance of course. Something like how a lot of radio stations do contest in that you can only win one contest per set time period and can not enter if you already have won for a set time period. In the end it is p to you for how many you take at a time and how you setup your rules.

This sounds fair, however Sagastrina's suggestion is the second idea I find really good next to this one you mentioned here.