At least he isn't the kind of guy to;
Remove the watermark
Claim the work to be his own
Say "It's a service, and you're done. Don't expect to be thanked, asshole"

^ kill these people
With fire

Actually I'm pretty sure that's one of the routes this personality would take. Maybe not put effort into removing your watermark but put theirs on the top instead.

It's just a matter how clouded their sense of reality is.

As well as how badly they want to be hit by a bus.

Apua xDDD Se on kyl hienoin asia kun valmis kuva (jonka luonnokseen asiakas oli tyytyväinen) onkin sitte "viallinen" ja "kehno" sen samaisen asiakkaan mielestä. :::DDDD "Ihan paska tee uus"-asenteella mennään.

Ja seki jos kuva ei ole valmis tunnin kuluttua tilaamisesta niin alkaa kauhea ruinaus ja purnaus siitä kuinka "artisti X" ja "ystäväni Martta-Taneli" tekivät halvemmalla hienomman kuvan alle tunnissa!

Onneksi suurin osa tilaajista on sellaisia jotka oikeesti kunnioittaa taiteilijaa eikä kuvittele että se on joku kone joka paskoo piirustuksia. :D

(lol tuli typo nii korjasin!!)

:DDDDDDDD Paskoo piirrustuksia, uus taidemuoto on syntynyt.

Does this kind of person really exist? I don't know any, lucky me.

Unfortunately. It's not especially common but it only takes one person to cause stress to so many.

Nice

I deal with these people on monthly basis and it's really demotivating to take commissions from them, but if you decline them they start spreading how bad of an artist you are. :X

Just decline them, in most cases this kind of people are already known for their bad behavior and their words about you wont be effective!

One of the ppl like this who commissioned me tried to spread ill words about me eventhough I accepted their work and they seemed to be pretty happy about it even... somehow.

The only customers you will lose are those who are just as big an asshole as they are, so it's a double win.

Well said!

Yes!

Do people actually do this? @_@ Holy crap!

(loads shotgun)

...oh wait... X3

Seriously, though; entitlement much? As a commissioner; I do my damnedest NOT to be this guy XD Sure, for the most part I end up waiting; but the end product has always been totally worth it and then some X3 My motto is pretty much "Don't throw stress around like an arsehole." X3

Well asking nicely is another thing, hinting that the artist is slow and showing how others are much better than them is bad!

Also just you worrying about not being -that- guy makes you the good one already :P

Aww >////< Thank you ^^

Because art is so subjective, and each artist has their own style/talent; they usually already have a hard time with over-criticizing their own stuff and comparing themselves to others; throwing something like "Well, so-and-so is _harder/^better/faster/_stronger" in their face is just cruel. It's also extremely demeaning... (shudder) mrrf... (wants to strangle the idea of this guy SO MUCH >.<)

I'm loving these comics. Please keep making these!

BRAWK

AH
WHATCHU DOIN HERE
ye scurred me ;-;

Wow, are there actually commissioners who act like this? I know it's a bit exaggerated, but that would be very rude, to put it bluntly. XD

Very nice work on both of these. ^^

Sadly it's not just commissioners; I've had a co-worker that was super full of himself like this... he wondered why he got canned after a week X3

Well that seems like the obvious outcome. XD

The sad part is that it's not too exaggerated - but it's very very rare thankfully, but in reality the passive aggressive parts are hidden among more normal sentences so that they're 'softer'.

Yeah...I hear you on that. I always maintain patience with any artist, especially if I know that they're going through problems with work, relationships, housing, etc. I just like to think that most commissioners don't mean to pressure the artists with their comments, but yeah, it still happens. :(

Hehehe

Damn lol.

I feel awful just asking for an update after a few months of waiting. >w> No way I could do some of the shit shown here and live with myself.

What's your opinion on artists who just don't finish the picture you've commissioned? I got one who every time I ask he's had some new development with his bad health that's prevented him from being able to focus on commissions (or only the ones that aren't sketches apparently), and another artist who vanished entirely owing lots of folks their artwork.

Well if the story is as bad as you say they'll equally shit as this nightmare customer is. It's always good to first follow someone for a bit until you commission them - that and check Artists_Beware if theres an entry on the person you're about to commission. The later you mentioned isn't really an artist anymore, sounds more like a scam (or maybe a bad accident happened).

Yeah. I try to give folks the benefit of the doubt, just in case I'm the one being unreasonable and I don't realize it. But yeah, when you've been waiting years for some work they're supposed to be doing for you, have completed several other peoples' projects in that time, and have nothing to give you, OR when they disappear while you're waiting for them to finish something, pop onto a instant messenger or social site for like a minute and you try to speak to them, and they just poof again, it doesn't really build up good character in my eyes. :T

There are some ppl who still owe me art but those aren't commissions, one is a 'reward' from an old deviantart competition and another is a trade - but I've sort of given up at this point since it's been well over 5 years with both :P

I'm not someone who offers commissions, but working in customer support, I get the worst kind of people at times. Some seem to just have forgotten how to be a decent human being as soon as money is involved in anything. Spoiler: Being nice gets you better and more service.

I need a new updated ref cause i keep getting teensy lil errors back from artists which makes me feel extremely guilty asking for a fix ;_;

It doesn't hurt to ask, at worst the artist might ask for a small edit fee xP (but a new ref is a good idea too)

I tend to have problematic clients of the opposite kind.
Extremely patient and Never complains...even when i made a mistake.

Don't get me wrong, it's better than the nightmare client portrayed here, but i like being pushed a little. If i make a mistake i want to know so i can correct and improve and yeah sometimes i need someone telling me to get the F to work to get some fire in the engine. Clients that are obnoxious are bad, but Clients that are extremely passive ain't the best for a aspiring artist either! ^^;

Don't be afraid to go up to a artist and politely ask for alterations or just being honest if it's not what you hoped for. Just NEVER be a (passive)-aggresive d-bag as the random wolf who represents no one and have atleast some patience!

I once had a client who acted like this wolf in the middle frame - they were "ok" with the sketch (they wrote in a passive aggressive way, but I didn't think it was anything at first since they said it was okay) and all and never asked for edits or complained during the progress. Then afterwards they started complaining about me in their personal account to all their followers instead "colours were wrong" "they had to fix some mistakes themselves" (I dont even allow alterations! it's against my TOS) and it was all over very small things I wouldn't have even charged extra for changing 8I

So yea, it's always better to speak up your mind. But I think this client did what they did in purpose... since it's what they seemed to do to everyone when I took a closer look.

Oh i'm pretty sure they did it on purpose.

Such behaviour tends to stem from a form of insecurity. They can't art so they get art, but at the same time feel this need to openly nitpick apart the gained art to make themselves feel better. They actually go and get Art just so they can complain about it as a form of feeling superior by making others seem inferior to compensate for their own inadequacies. Humans are weird...

Sigh.

assholes are everywhere and not everyone is pleasable regardless of what you do there is always going to be someone who isn't happy, some of them even do it on purpose... D:

maybe I've just been really blessed but I've never actually had anything like this happen to me xD

Most likely it's going to be that one of a kind experience - I've only had this happen once. (But I do know that it seems to happen for every commission artist at least a few times at some point)

Im thankful to know this isn't a terribly common thing at least. Still once is way more than enough man. So sorry you've had to experience that.

It's okay, I've had hundreds of really nice and awesome clients! One bad apple isn't going to ruin my day even :D

*loads revolver and spins the chamber wheel* Time to end a fur

Aren't the last two kinda valid things to say though?

YEP - it could go worse! (they could make a chargeback, mass report you on paypal / other service, start a huge shitstorm etc. --- although in the end you'd still win :P)

The fact that this is so accurate makes me sad.

I'm dealing with that right now. There are currently 30 messages in my notes spanning 20 days in trying to negotiate 2 images for a commissioner, spamming me with questions about extra details and features and going into content I'm not comfortable with. I had to put my foot down and say I've already made several exceptions for what they're paying, and I don't want to do more. I don't mind doing a little extra for someone at no cost, cuz I wanna make my commissioners happy, but there are some who just take full advantage. The sad thing is that I don't think the person I'm dealing with even realizes it's not good form to keep piling demands on, and I don't know how to tell them.

Relevant: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13410763/

:'DD Oh gah I can't stand people who don't tell what they want right away and instead drag it on and on. This is why I have a form that I'll just link to people - and they can't submit it without filling all relevant info.

My problem isn't picky commissioners, its no commissioners at all; I can't seem to get commissions from anybody even though my prices are dirt cheap

Getting commissions takes time and effort. You've joined FA only this year, It took me at least 3 years to have enough watchers to have any potential commissioners - and even more years to have regular commissions. And then having a glance through your gallery - you draw well but you portray your pieces very poorly. Traditional art is difficult to present, it requires good equipment (good scanner is cheaper than good enough camera) and some digital editing skills because no matter how good equipment the piece will need touch ups to match the original. And then also the best place to sell traditional work is real life, such as conventions - because seeing the original is a much bigger impact to people.

This is my second account, my old one was much older but hated the name so I made this one; I've hardly gotten more than a few commissions in 3 years let alone regular commissions. I had a dA but left it because its a dead site and never got hardly even comments there so there was no use in putting my commissions up again.
I'm holding emergency commissions so I can get a scanner and a computer because I currently use my phone for everything, I understand money is hard to come by which is why I'm trying to be patient but I need the money for clothes and meds as well; I don't want this message to make me sound desperate but those are my actual reasons so I won't lie about them especially to another artist who I'm sure has had the same issue at least once before

It's strange how much the increasing the prices thing actually works.

Most of the problem commissions I've had have just been people really indecisive, or just continuingly asking for more and more detail.

I used to take clean story commissions, and most people were really happy with what I wrote. But one person would send me these epic-length lists of changes I needed to make, down to little symbolic details. It took me forever to finish their story because of all the extra work.

They sent extra pay when I pointed this out. But then a few months later I wrote a very personal story that dealt with depression and suicide, and they demanded I pull down the story I wrote for them because they didn't want it associated with this one. Then a week or so later they changed their mind, because they finally read it and decided it was okay.

My nightmare client kept coming back. ^^;;