Pardon if I'm not seeing it, but did they show no photographic evidence of any work ever?

-3T

absolutely NO photographic evidence. I have done my absolute best to search all my notes to ensure I posted our entire correspondence.

That's...very... what? Even if you need to make it clear to a client that no edits or adjustments are going to be made based on feedback, a good faith show of work is just... I mean, not *just* a professional thing but even an amateur should strive to build that kind of trust.

*feels the urge to write about "how to not completely suck as a small-time commission artist" again*

if you choose to write this, care to link him to it? lol.

I just want this resolved and hope this is a wake-up call to him as I fear I am not the only person who had this issue. I kick myself for not screen capping his FB page when i found a user leave a very upset comment asking where their refund is and to warn people never to commission him D:

I have been considering writing a soft guide of sorts (like, an overview of what I do/have learned/feel the small timers should consider or strive to do) for awhile, mainly because stuff like this often reflects badly on the whole of artists (ie, one more reason not to commission, makes a person second guess or perhaps treat the next artist with more anxiety, etc - ie it's bad in the long run as well as short.)

I dunno if I could force him to read it, but I would hope maybe others, especially newer artists, would take some things into consideration before committing to the job/career that freelance is and entails. Like producing the work you've been paid for.... showing updates... handling refunds... figuring out if a craft or your art can produced in a timely enough manner to open for commissions and the importance of seeing them through, etc. ^.^; Time wise I would expect an original doll with some casted parts to take about that, but the no visual updates is disturbing and feels kinda... you know, it's one thing to do a list of work a few at a time, but he said he was working on it so he SHOULD be able to take a cellphone photo (borrowed, or his own) at least. Heck, when I had scanner problems I did that ^.^; not best quality, but it showed and creates/strengthens trust. Ack sorry to draw this out! Basically I feel for you, but if I could offer the guy some advice I would from having made similar mistakes (from what I can tell from here, time management and project process supervision) in the past.Some folks make mistakes because they happen or they don't know better/haven't learned better - AB posts are good for teaching a lesson or two.

Yeah, this ordeal (and a couple unrelated incidents) has been the coffin nail regarding no longer commissioning/buying pre-made artwork from artists I do not have an aquaintancship with. From here on out, I'm basically done buying from new people.