this is where artist beware comes in handy. tell the artist they owe you the art you paid them to draw. If they refuse tell them you're making an artist beware about them.

If its not even the right characters or pose or ANYTHINg then..no. You dont pay. Sorry I would stick to my guns on this.
If you ordered a chicken sandwich and you were given ham instead and told to pay...you wouldnt so same principle applies here. This sort of thing really irritates me. You wouldnt get away with that in any other line of work so i dont see why artists think they can get away with that sort of bollocks here.

((editted to fix multiple spelling mistakes...i mean...chuckun???))

Unfortunately the scamming is starting to rise. There are flat out scammers like Anthropomorphic who take money and give zero in return yet keep posting new YCHs for people to get. (Fuck Anthropomorphic and all of her alt accounts!) And then there are scammers like the one Sicle is facing who think they can pull a bait and switch without facing any repercussions.

Oh hey Babystar, check the note I sent back to you please.

This doesn't sound very legal.

It isn't but since Sicle hasn't paid them yet, he should just walk away from this artist who has just proven that they are shady.

Yeah, you have every right to walk away from this situation, keep your money, and call them out on their BS. If you aren't being given the product that the artist promised that they would give you, then they do not get your money. Simple as that. Before I put out a Beware, I would try and contact others that have commissioned this particular artist and see if they have experienced the same thing. Then again, if they are doing it to you then they have probably done this before.

Now I am rambling. :/

No.

You ordered something, and they did something else instead. You have every right to deny payment for what you did not actually order.

A rotten attitude like that doesn't deserve the validation of payment for intentionally going against the order, and not delivering what was agreed on. Because they did not do as they were hired to do the way you ordered it, you are under no obligation to pay for what you did not want in the first place.

That'd be like if I ordered a PS4 game from Gamestop and the sent me a Xbox One version instead because they 'didn't have any PS4 games in stock'. You're damn right I would demand my money back and return the product, because when you're paid to do something for someone, you do nothing else BUT that order within the agreed parameters. Not go off and do your own thing and still say it's for the person's order.

That's bullshit, and should not be condoned.

Thanks folks, you confirmed my resolve that the artist was in the wrong. I just walked away from the order and filed a paypal dispute with screenshots of it all, as I had a paypal billing agreement with the artist as I had every intention of paying up. But a single porn pic of different characters does not equal a comic page. I don't care if the artist is tired of drawing comic pages and feels they are getting stagnant.

This is sad to see especially since I am an artist that goes out of their way to make sure the commissioner is pleased ^^; Very troublesome when things like that get the best of us.

I am a bit tired of doing pacifier icons but I still have commissions for them, but that doesn't mean I am going to do a different kind of icon instead. I just need to pace myself and do some other things between them so I don't get so frustrated.

If you learn work ethics that tailor to you (the artist) then you can produce something extraordinary! You just need to make sure you don't bite off more than you can chew.

Glad you got it solved!