Sweet,like it

O shit I didn't know you were this good at drgns.

everything i lack in refracting...

What's wrong with you :( you should refract everything!

This is why I must have a commission by falvie. Getting her to respond though is next to impossible until she opens for them though O.o.

You aren't noting her are you? :U
And a lot of artists don't like being bugged about commissions when they clearly advertise they are closed/only do them in journals lol.

To me its just good customer service to respond to all notes. Even if its just a copy/pasted form response.

I sent her only one note, after that it was just adding a sentence to the comments I've left. Let's just say her lack of a response has seriously made me rethink rather I should or not. I love her art so much and I think her style would do my form well. . .but yeah, customer service is important too. I dunno yet. I'll keep bugging her till I get one I guess.

Well, can I offer you another perspective?
The note system on FA is VERY bad, and popular artists get anywhere from 10 to 50 notes a day.
I do, and I'm not even a fraction as popular as Falvie... she must get like 100 a day lol~
It gets REALLY difficult keeping up with all that!
She very clearly states that she doesn't like being noted about commissions, but emailed instead.
I assure you it's not anything personal, but just that she is most likely overwhelmed by people asking about commissions every day!

I just don't want you thinking it's bad customer service necessarily.

I agree with you to a degree, I think the copy pasted response is a great idea for someone with lots of incoming messages, but she seems to be overall nice, her turnaround time is good, and she seems to communicate with actual paid customers rather well.
Don't be scared away just from that, be patient and try to snag a spot when she opens up next time ;3

I definitely appreciate your time and well thought out responses. I agree with you that the note system here could use work. I didn't see her email listed anywhere, but its probably this dragon being blind (happens a lot, lol). I think the only way I could handle any more than 4 or 5 notes a day would be if I did form responses and if I did art for my living. Seeing as I work full time in a customer service centric job I definitely would not have time to do even what you do.

Thank you for offering me another way of thinking about it. I will admit, Falvie is only the most recent one to not respond to me. I've went around to probably half a dozen artists in the past year of which most never responded back to me, so I never commissioned them. This is the first time someone has taken the time to explain why to me, and I appreciate it.

No problem! I'm glad to have helped :3

Well, besides what pornography said, Falvie also clearly states on her profile to please not note her for commissions. Just a heads up!

The exact wording I read was something along the lines of "notes are for customers only" or something along those lines. Does that include potential customers? I didn't know, so I took a risk to send one. I appreciate you bringing this up, as there have been many times I've missed things like this ^_^.

You know, I think you may be right that it used to say something like that. Maybe that's why she changed it to say, "[please do not note me for commissions!]" XD

nice <3

Wow nice dragon looks good :)

Lovely work! Very well done.

Good leather like texture on his wings. ;D

Very pretty! O.O

Love the little scale details! ;3

Beautiful dragon!

I like fis design. ^^
Good job young artist. ^^

dat color

He looks like a statue I want to text the texture of by scratching my nail on :3
<3

Test*

Cool dragon

Very nice! Facial expression, rawr; upper body, all well done. Super cool, I'd love to see more dragons.

Beautiful, and I don't even like dragons. Wish I could have gotten to see you color it!

Thanks Falvie! I love it! ^_^

Very pretty! Well done!

Neat!

Nice rendering job falvie, I like the tones as well. Definetly makes for solid ref work!

I will never stop adoring the way you draw dragons.

Odd, I thought I saw you do this image a long time ago?

Looks fantastic, however! Love how you did the scales.

omG DRAGONS OMG????? DRAGONS??? Dragons ah wow how majestic........... uvu

nice !!

I came here after doing a commission for the client to say that this is a lovely piece. I know you're more well known for your high saturated palettes, but this is just beautiful.

Nice lighting and anatomy.