ARTISTS BEWARE!!!!
13 years ago
General
After having a hard time ourselves, my mate and i finally got an apartment in California. A friend told us that a friend of hers was homeless and needed help. And my mate, being the man he is, welcomed the fur into our home with open arms. His name was Hash Wolf.
We met him after a long buss ride from the city across the bay to our home in the suburbs. And discussed what would be asked of him. Kairo is ex military and really takes pride in family and hard work...so he expressed that he and i would take him to job interviews, and give him the best chance possible for getting a job and his own place. He had 30 days to find a job or he would have to leave, because we couldn't afford to support him any longer than that. We had problems of our own to worry about.
He was to come with me to my tattoo shop, sit quietly in the lobby and not bother the tattoo artists or me as we worked. Kairo made it clear that i was to never leave him in our house unattended, because we didn't know him.
Well, after about 5 days,..the shop owner/head artist said that Hash was talking to the customers and making them uncomfortable...and the owner felt disrespected because the guy kept 'mocking' the owner's British accent. He asked me to tell him to go away, and i was not to allow him inside the store unless he was a paying customer.
I HAVE to work, and so i had to leave him at home, i had no other choice. And that's when the problems started.
We only went shopping once a month, and while at the store Kairo gave us each an allowance to spend on items we needed..such as shampoo, makeup, tampons, razors, hair bows,..and other luxury crap lol
Because Hash Wolf had no job and no money, Kai also gave him a grocery allowance for the month for himself.
And he managed to eat his 100$ allowance worth of food within a single week.
I caught him using my personal razor. Now, being a girl myself,.i was pretty upset..but then he admitted he used it on his unmentionables..i should've asked him to leave then,.but Kairo convinced me to let him stay, because he had nowhere else to go.
And then the last straw...
I offer reference commissions here on FA for 60$ a piece. And since Hash had no real artwork of his fursona, i offered to do him one..but not for free. He said he would get the money, and bought me an Xbox controller with his reward points. The controller was worth 30$ so i told him that would count as half the payment, and i got to work on his ref.
I told him i would give him previews of the artwork for his approval but he wouldn't get the finished file till he paid the rest.
well, i came home from work one day and sat down to my computer. Opened it up and turned on Skype so i could call my mother who lives in Georgia.
But when my friends list popped up, i noticed Hash had changed his icon.
His icon was a headshot of the referance i was making.
I had not given him the okay to use my artwork yet, nor had he ever even asked.
Another problem was that i had closed my laptop before work, and it is password protected..
i confronted him about it and he ADMITTED to logging into my computer as me, finding the file, and emailing it to himself without permission...he violated my personal property, and stole artwork before he paid for it.
And then i saw that he had uploaded it to FurAffinity without my permission and without my watermark.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8447808/
Alex was so pissed that the first chance he got he drove Hash to the train station, gave him the money for the ticket and whatever he wanted for the ride, and sent him on his way.
Kairo is very protective of me, he's my protector. And he just couldn't take Hash anymore after he realized how stressed out i was getting.
it has been over a year and i never heard from Hash Wolf again, nor did i ever receive any payment. Kairo finally got him to give me credit for the artwork on FA,..but i haulted all work on the commission.
Kairo and i both reported him on FA, and i reported him on Artists Beware so future artists are warned of him before doing a commission for him.
I know what harassment is, and im not harassing him. I just want people to be aware of how manipulative he is, and think twice before making artwork for him.
GET YOUR MONEY FIRST! Or you may be working for free!
We met him after a long buss ride from the city across the bay to our home in the suburbs. And discussed what would be asked of him. Kairo is ex military and really takes pride in family and hard work...so he expressed that he and i would take him to job interviews, and give him the best chance possible for getting a job and his own place. He had 30 days to find a job or he would have to leave, because we couldn't afford to support him any longer than that. We had problems of our own to worry about.
He was to come with me to my tattoo shop, sit quietly in the lobby and not bother the tattoo artists or me as we worked. Kairo made it clear that i was to never leave him in our house unattended, because we didn't know him.
Well, after about 5 days,..the shop owner/head artist said that Hash was talking to the customers and making them uncomfortable...and the owner felt disrespected because the guy kept 'mocking' the owner's British accent. He asked me to tell him to go away, and i was not to allow him inside the store unless he was a paying customer.
I HAVE to work, and so i had to leave him at home, i had no other choice. And that's when the problems started.
We only went shopping once a month, and while at the store Kairo gave us each an allowance to spend on items we needed..such as shampoo, makeup, tampons, razors, hair bows,..and other luxury crap lol
Because Hash Wolf had no job and no money, Kai also gave him a grocery allowance for the month for himself.
And he managed to eat his 100$ allowance worth of food within a single week.
I caught him using my personal razor. Now, being a girl myself,.i was pretty upset..but then he admitted he used it on his unmentionables..i should've asked him to leave then,.but Kairo convinced me to let him stay, because he had nowhere else to go.
And then the last straw...
I offer reference commissions here on FA for 60$ a piece. And since Hash had no real artwork of his fursona, i offered to do him one..but not for free. He said he would get the money, and bought me an Xbox controller with his reward points. The controller was worth 30$ so i told him that would count as half the payment, and i got to work on his ref.
I told him i would give him previews of the artwork for his approval but he wouldn't get the finished file till he paid the rest.
well, i came home from work one day and sat down to my computer. Opened it up and turned on Skype so i could call my mother who lives in Georgia.
But when my friends list popped up, i noticed Hash had changed his icon.
His icon was a headshot of the referance i was making.
I had not given him the okay to use my artwork yet, nor had he ever even asked.
Another problem was that i had closed my laptop before work, and it is password protected..
i confronted him about it and he ADMITTED to logging into my computer as me, finding the file, and emailing it to himself without permission...he violated my personal property, and stole artwork before he paid for it.
And then i saw that he had uploaded it to FurAffinity without my permission and without my watermark.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8447808/
Alex was so pissed that the first chance he got he drove Hash to the train station, gave him the money for the ticket and whatever he wanted for the ride, and sent him on his way.
Kairo is very protective of me, he's my protector. And he just couldn't take Hash anymore after he realized how stressed out i was getting.
it has been over a year and i never heard from Hash Wolf again, nor did i ever receive any payment. Kairo finally got him to give me credit for the artwork on FA,..but i haulted all work on the commission.
Kairo and i both reported him on FA, and i reported him on Artists Beware so future artists are warned of him before doing a commission for him.
I know what harassment is, and im not harassing him. I just want people to be aware of how manipulative he is, and think twice before making artwork for him.
GET YOUR MONEY FIRST! Or you may be working for free!
bubz91
~bubz91
huh. thats pretty shady of him. :/ least you got something for it.
ZelliSkell
~zelliskell
OP
if i could go back and tell my friend no, i really would.
bubz91
~bubz91
nod nods
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