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Breaking the silence cause I wanna say this...
6 years ago
Please take a moment to read this. Especially if you're an artist drawing for me
I dunno about you guys, but I'm sick and tired of artists who take your money, accept your commission, and then just go dark on you; total communication blackout.
When going into a business transaction, it's a good idea to make the experience a pleasant one. Its not pleasant to feel insignificant and kind of worthless when an artist can't even bother to take 40 seconds or less to write you a quick note detailing where they're at, or even just to let you know they didn't forget about you.
"So you want an artist to write ALL of their commissioners? That's unrealistic!"
Only cause they make it unrealistic. If they take so much work that they feel so overwhelmed they can't even communicate politely with a paying customer without getting angry at them for asking about a commission in progress, they need to take on less commissions and finish them in smaller batches.
I have had countless artists downright threaten to blacklist me and cancel my commission if I dare note them about updates. Its actually insane how entitled these artists are.
So im gonna add a disclaimer when i commission from now on; every full week I see or hear nothing regarding my commission, I'll write the artist a note myself. If I get no response after 2 weeks, I will cancel the commission myself and take a full refund regardless of how far along they claim to be on the commission. They should've thought about sharing this with me in a note. If this is a problem for the artist, I will not pay them money, and thus not commission them, cause if they can't be assed to treat me as a valued customer I can't be assed to help support their livelihood.
When going into a business transaction, it's a good idea to make the experience a pleasant one. Its not pleasant to feel insignificant and kind of worthless when an artist can't even bother to take 40 seconds or less to write you a quick note detailing where they're at, or even just to let you know they didn't forget about you.
"So you want an artist to write ALL of their commissioners? That's unrealistic!"
Only cause they make it unrealistic. If they take so much work that they feel so overwhelmed they can't even communicate politely with a paying customer without getting angry at them for asking about a commission in progress, they need to take on less commissions and finish them in smaller batches.
I have had countless artists downright threaten to blacklist me and cancel my commission if I dare note them about updates. Its actually insane how entitled these artists are.
So im gonna add a disclaimer when i commission from now on; every full week I see or hear nothing regarding my commission, I'll write the artist a note myself. If I get no response after 2 weeks, I will cancel the commission myself and take a full refund regardless of how far along they claim to be on the commission. They should've thought about sharing this with me in a note. If this is a problem for the artist, I will not pay them money, and thus not commission them, cause if they can't be assed to treat me as a valued customer I can't be assed to help support their livelihood.
Even when you have them on discord but know better
Or cancel & make excuses
Work on others
Get over worked and let it build up but never finish art
Or they go on a long hiatus and never return
HOWEVER If the artists commission info clearly states the estimated time of work to be finished I don't bother them.
I see you have rielity listed. She has not respond to me in over 6 months on anything for the pin-up I ordered long ago.
She wrote a journal on how she was going to have some doctor visits but has not done anything since.
Edit: I see she posted a journal last week about another injury that I did not see.
I've had artists who padded the hell out of their estimated work time so they could spend countless hours on video games, like FFXIV or Second Life without people questioning it. When I did I was blocked and blacklisted.
For this reason I struggle to trust when an artist has gone through the trouble of computing their estimated work time(logging their slowest commissions by completion speed over a long period of time to gather data, then calculating the average), yet complain if I ask them to take half a minute once a week to write me. The inconsistencies in the work effort required here doesn't add up.
I've waited for as long as 1 year, 3 months before for a commission( One from
Yet I had artists being silent for months, even years, only giving me an answer when I said "either refund or give me what I paid for"
most recent example.. because of previous instances, I ask for a deadline at the start. Just rule of thumb, but still, an estimate. The answer was 2-3 weeks. 10 weeks later and not a peep from them.
And because I know it's coming.. Why didn't I ask sooner? Well because I had artists getting really pissy about simple requests for updates, resulting in obviously rushed pieces that I could practically throw away, but it was finished, so I couldn't complain.
You are at the short end of the stick as a commissioner every inch of the way.
And all you ever hear on twitter and such is how poor artists are and how demanding and assholeish their customers, and how furry art is oh so cheap and should be more expensive and don't you dare say something if someone wants 4 times the price as others for average or less quality. Try doing professional stuff with that customer service, I dare you.
This is one of the reason I can't get myself to actually go to the more expensive artists. Not the only one, sure ("3 great images or one awesome one?" is a hard question) but a big one nonetheless. I was burned on 40-120$ commissions, had artists getting angry at me for corrections in the sketch phase (I'm sorry, but if your correction is still wrong, what am I to do?) etc. That coupled with the fact that once I notice a detail I don't like, it springs out to me. I can overlook them on cheaper commissions and not bug the artist for the really minor ones, but it would always haunt me on more expensive commissions, so they would either dimish in value for me personally or I'd have to bug the artist even more, risking even more backlash. how could I risk spending 200+ with that?
I don't deny that only the best ones in my gallery can barely hold up a candle to most of yours, vax. I'm a bit envious and I'd love to commission such works as well. But I just can't bring myself to risk that amount of money.
Anyway, rambled and ranted a bit. It's just so frustrating.
It got to a point where I mainly just go for YCH because the 'real' commissions hardly turn out the way I envisioned them. some artists get pissy if you describe it in too much detail and even share that around (none of mine yet, but I've saw it), others get pissy if you're too vague. And they never ask for clarifications on things they don't understand but just do it the way they assume it is. I once had a russian artist draw a char of mine that is male as a dickgirl. Turned out he had no idea what femboi meant. But why ask, even if you're clearly told "please ask if something is unclear"?
ah fuck, I got myself monologuing again. I better stop now