I was looking back through my art submissions here on FA tonight, and I came upon a piece of art with... a history.

I'm not going to link to what it is, because I don't want to start anything up again, but... it is an interesting story.



So.... last July, someone sent me a note saying that they wanted to get a commission of a couple of copyrighted cartoon characters in diapers.

I had never drawn them before, so I was game to give it a try. I believe the commission was for $15, honestly a good deal for a 2 character commission.

I had a bit of trouble drawing them as it was a totally new style to me, but I worked hard on it, and I even gave them a background for free cause I was really getting into working on it. I drew the two characters in their style instead of mine.

So I send the person the art, and.. they didn't like it. It took quite a few DMs back and forth for them to really explain WHAT it was that they didn't like about it.

So I worked on it again, and sent what I thought was a much improved picture to them. And, they didn't like it. It still took a couple of times to get what the problem was this time.

And so, I worked on it again, and gave him a third version.

Now remember, this was for a $15 piece of art, and I can't even tell you how many hours I put into it through the edits.

And they didn't like it.

So then the person demands that I take the art down. and starts writing derogatory shouts in the shout section on my FA page, and then tells me to stop deleting their shouts. Like I was gonna leave tier derogatory garbage on my page, LOL.

They gave me 15 minutes to take the art down, and kept DMing me as the time went down.

At first they were threatening to go to the admins, which I was really not worried about, so I had no intention to take the art down.

When I didn't take it down, they said that they were contacting an administrator and gave me an additional 5 minutes.

After that passed, they sent another DM and said that they were contacting an administrator to get it taken down, and was also going to contact Paypal because they quality was not what they expected.

Well I didn't give a crap about the admins, but when they threatened to take it to Paypal, my back was pretty much against the wall.

Unfortunately I had no choice, I had to acquiesce and take it down.

Throughout all of that.. they sent me 22 DMs between 10:10 PM one day and 9:58 PM the next day, 22 DMS in less than 24 hours, and 27 DMs total.



Needless to say, that left a very bad taste in my mouth for a while.




So ... fast forward to a couple of months ago. I was going through my HDD trying to find some pics I had forgotten to post and I came across that commission.

I figured that it had been long enough, so I posted only the last version of the picture up here on my FA.


So, what happens?


Some random person who I had never talked to before comes in and white knights, insulting me and telling me that I have to take the art down.

I had no idea who this person was, or what connection they had to the commissioner, so of course I laughed it off, and responded.

So then they start to insult me more, and tell me that I have 2 days to take it down.

Of course I laugh it off again. they respond to another comment there, and I respond it it, then the same day it goes from having "2 days" to take it down, to "0 days".

And of course they left a derogatory shout in the shout section of my front page here on FA that I took down rather quickly.

They posted the same derogatory the as yet another comment on the same submission, and told me that they were contacting the admins to have it taken down.

The comment was riddled with terrible spelling and they incorrectly called me a "he" twice.




So, what happened to the art, to me, and to the commentator, you ask? Well, the re-upload is still there, the admins never asked me to take it down, and the person was suspended from FA for A MONTH for harassment.

AND they got a shout on their page from Dragoneer himself telling them to NOT harass other users, LOL..


AND THE SHOUT IS STILL THERE! They never took it off! hahahahahah



I found out later that this was apparently not the first time that they had done this. That is probably why the suspension was for so long.



While the first experience was terrible and stressful, the second experience was... rather hilarious.





So, yea.... good times.. good times.