"you'll still love me, dead or alive!"
- black widow by in this moment

attack against @demistasis.bsky.social !!

I do typically tend to be very upfront on expectations (max of 6 months on a commission and wanting updates if the deadline for a piece of art ends up being pushed), unfortunately in some cases, not even being upfront and clear about my expectations is enough because some will look away from them

Exactly! Even for surprise-me commissions, I kind of still expect to be told when the art won't be completed within an agreed deadline, but I can't even get that in some cases :(

Sure, the type of commission involves no communication (WIPs and revisions) but there is still a minimum to uphold imo

Oh, I do still have quite a lot of artists I love to commission and recommend! It's just years of getting scammed, ghosted, being given horrible customer service that's starting to get to me and it feels like it's more rampant today...but it might also be because I commission more than before :Oc

Well in this situation I recently ran into, I kind of just rolled with the design they decided to draw but still asked for some changed

I personally would rather restart the commission entirely if I drew the wrong design but that's also me wanting to make sure I give exactly what my clients want!

thankfully most still do that! i've had some that don't and just send me the finished version though, i do commission skebs but i sometimes dont get the minimum of being told a commission would take longer than expected so it feels like im being treated like just a money bank

It's why I put those kinds of rules in the servers I own when I can, otherwise people kind of treat posting their art as a competition which is...kinda dumb, isn't the point of art to be able to share it and appreciate the effort put into them? SOBS

I haven't posted anything in a minute, but I haven't given up that hard! I have been drawing, just been mostly lowkey!