So like. I love getting artwork of my characters. But I almost never do that. Commissions are expensive and I struggle to eat some months (less so recently, but its still a paycheck to paycheck life).
Trades are fun, and when I'm regularly drawing again, I might be more open to them... when I don't also need commission money to help stabilize my income.
So, some time ago. When I was in a pretty damn good place money-wise I decided to treat myself and commissioned an artist for a prompt they put up (I'm not going to put out their name because frankly, doing so is only sparking animosity all around)
So here's the timeline.
-Payment gets sent. an expectation of turnaround time is requested.
-The aim is for a month
-2 months pass and I make a request for an update (this artist does a lot of commissioned work, I'm not too concerned, just wondering the eta)
-Message catches them in transit they say they'll get back to me.
-7 months pass I message again
-Get the response that they will be working on it shortly
-4 months pass I message asking if this piece was going to happen at all. or if it had been forgotten or lost in the shuffle
-they admit it had been forgotten. and give me an eta that they will have a wip sketch for me to approve of that friday
- two weekends pass, so I message one last time. Asking how the wip is coming,
- No response.
So yeah. I'm a patient person and all. And I have been there. Making art can be exhausting. Art Block happens organizational issues happen. Having a que become overwhelmingly unbearable happens. But this feels excessive and I'm really frustrated, especially so because it feels good to support your fellow artists, and I just don't get to do this almost ever. And I'm wondering if I should have gotten to this point sooner.
So yeah. I'm probably asking for my money back tonight. But to the people out there who commission work. At what point do you determine that you'd rather have your money back instead (and be nice. while I'm not naming names, the person in question could be reading this and is still deserving of respect and common decency)
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2 months, 1 week ago
01 Jul 2024 04:14 CEST
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