Thank you for this, I never got to see the comment myself as I'm in a completely different time zone. I see Nuka deleted their livejournal account, but some points in case she decides to read the thread:
as i didn't have a real job, i just couldn't bring myself to close commissions.
No! Commissions are providing other people a service - A REAL JOB. And real jobs do not take on more than they can handle or they will collapse! It's an unhealthy mindset of commission artists to think it's not a job when it is, so Nuka should have treated this much more professionally. At least Nuka has acknowledged it is her fault, but I don't see anywhere in my comment where I judged them, merely expressed concern and surprise (as an artist I was in a similar situation of a backlog but nowhere near that many) - don't jump so quickly to defend yourself when there was no malice intended at all, you make things look worse for yourself.
Nuka, close commissions and finish what you owe before you take on anything new, finish backlog a chunk at a time. Not having the additional stress of new work adding on top of old one will HELP YOU fight your art block and depression, I promise you. If Nuka doesn't and they keep taking more money than they can deliver products, eventually no future customer base will hire them for the job of providing custom art anymore.
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Date: 2013-07-31 12:22 pm (UTC)as i didn't have a real job, i just couldn't bring myself to close commissions.
No! Commissions are providing other people a service - A REAL JOB. And real jobs do not take on more than they can handle or they will collapse! It's an unhealthy mindset of commission artists to think it's not a job when it is, so Nuka should have treated this much more professionally. At least Nuka has acknowledged it is her fault, but I don't see anywhere in my comment where I judged them, merely expressed concern and surprise (as an artist I was in a similar situation of a backlog but nowhere near that many) - don't jump so quickly to defend yourself when there was no malice intended at all, you make things look worse for yourself.
Nuka, close commissions and finish what you owe before you take on anything new, finish backlog a chunk at a time. Not having the additional stress of new work adding on top of old one will HELP YOU fight your art block and depression, I promise you. If Nuka doesn't and they keep taking more money than they can deliver products, eventually no future customer base will hire them for the job of providing custom art anymore.