This probably is just bothering me more because art is my only source of income at the moment, and I’m bombarded trying to balance between adopts and commisions to make sure I can earn money to rebuild my life..I’m litteraly trying to earn the basic things I need to take care of myself.

Oh hun do I get it.. this happens FAR too often nowadays.. a lot of them refuse to even pay a rush fee but expect people who /did/ or commissions that have due dates to be thrown to the side and their is priority.

This is so stressful and I'm so sorry you are going through this..

Yes.exactly.this, they asked for me to complete it by the end of this week without even offering to pay a rush fee, they even saw my trello which shows the other people whose came way before them and is just basically asking that I ignore those people’s designs and priotize theirs..

it's been something with 'newer' fa members/ people into the commission stuff.. it's been really stressful and making us work like robots. Forgetting we deserve time off and time to things, too.

I noticed that as well..
I've only had really impatient people come from my Instagram commissions, It's almost pushing me to the point where I don't want to take commissions from there anymore. But I also try not to put too many apples in one basket just in case FA ever falls apart or anything *~*

I’m sorry :/ too many do that and it’s terrible

Thank you it means a lot, I try to be understanding that some people are just really excited and want to see results quickly, but I don’t think they understand the bad taste that leaves..

Tell `em to heck off >:c

But honestly, sorry you gotta deal with that. It's very rude of them. I would personally Black List them from future comms if they're making that big of a fuss over it.

I completely plan to do that, considering how rudely they went about it. I told them I’ll be refunding right after I said I won’t complete it in their rushed request

aaa i completely understand, I take months to finish things usually and I HEAVILY warn people ahead of time and double make sure that thats okay with them
But there will be some that just are too eager sdflskdf
I'm sorry you've been so stressed with everything, I hope that the rest of your commissioners understand and will give you a break qvq take care of yourself over anything else !

I'm exactly the same, I work in bursts of inspiration/energy and tend to get a bunch of work done at once, or absolutely none at all (probably due to some undiagnosed mental illness, as this is the case with a LOT of things in my life)
This is why I try to be open about my wait times and make it clear that something could be done a lot quicker than expected, or take a lot longer. I try to give myself the extra breathing room just in case I am in one of those moments.

Luckily almost all of my commissioners are extremely patient and kind with me, I rarely have this type of run-in, so I feel kind of scummy complaining when it does happen. but its just very stressful when you have things you're waiting to purchase and then all of a sudden you have to make a refund because of some impatient person who knew what the turn-around time was going to be..

It also doesn't help sometimes life gets in the way and emergency funds are needed so you end up back loging yourself (my current situation ahaha)

But im happy tht most of ur commissioners are very patient, those are the kinds that we want to come back ahahaha

Mhmm! getting back-logged is the WORSE, but its also super satisfying watching it just dwindle over-time and feeling accomplished xd
and I hope more do as well!

The only time I understand kind of rushing is if like it’s been awhile and you haven’t had any updates or like it’s a gift for a friend and you forgot to commission it earlier but like when there’s a set date and you fully agreed to it taking that long like? You agreed to this. You said you were fine with it and that you’ll live with it. It amazes me how rude people can be with art. I work with bases and I always get annoyed when people try to rush me with it like I’m working as fast as I can. I deal with really bad depression as well and sometimes can’t make myself do art but I’m try.


I’m sorry you have to deal with that hun! You’re art is way too beautiful to rush!

Yeah, I'd totally understand if it was one or the other, but it's only elapsed two weeks and they hadn't said it was for anything important/of urgency. I had directed them to my TOS showing my wait times before they paid, and they even re-asked me specifically about how long my wait times were (I guess hoping to get another answer) and when I told them it can be a few months, they thanked me for letting them know ahead of time, then waited two weeks...and then went on to complain and demand it to be done this week because they weren't comfortable waiting months..
I re-stated my TOS and then told them I'll be refunding because I really don't want to work with someone that's that impatient.

I really try to be understanding from a commissioners perspective, they see art from someone they really like and they're super excited to see the results; but I feel like they don't realize how much their impatience stresses out the artist and leaves a bad impression of them, so much so that they wouldn't want to work with them anymore.

and thank you! that really means a lot to me ;w; I try to be grateful that literally 99.9% of my customers are actually super patient and kind with me, I wish it'd make up for whenever this does happen, but it hits a certain kind of irritation every single time that I just can't shake off, @^@