this beware and your defensive commenting so far has kinda of made me go eeehhh at both parts.
We established that the artist you commissioned is 15, and your passive/aggressive comment may have really put a damper on her wanting to reply so she did what any 15 year old might have done. Ignore. Also 15, She would have had school work and Finals that need more attention put onto than out of school issues
Its part of the reason you shouldn't commission younger people. I'll do a trade with one, I won't buy from one simply because they haven't gotten the business mind part of what commissions mean.
I've had a commission that took me about.. 2-3 MONTHS to complete and I would have still have done some personal work in between, for two reasons. 1. Warm-up drawings. 2. Lack of Inspiration on the commission, some times drawing something else helped me figure out what to do next on a paid work. HOWEVER: I would keep the buyer in the loop with what was going on with their commissioned piece. I also let people know I'm a bit of a slow artist so that really shouldn't amount to much.
but still its good to recognize you're being impatient and you are learning from this, which is a giant A+ there.
also as an after thought I have told a customer to stop asking about his commission. But it was only because he noted me on three different sites asking about it an hour after I accepted. I eventually canceled and refunded the commission in full because he was harassing me about it even after being told to stop.
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Date: 2014-06-02 12:04 am (UTC)We established that the artist you commissioned is 15, and your passive/aggressive comment may have really put a damper on her wanting to reply so she did what any 15 year old might have done. Ignore. Also 15, She would have had school work and Finals that need more attention put onto than out of school issues
Its part of the reason you shouldn't commission younger people. I'll do a trade with one, I won't buy from one simply because they haven't gotten the business mind part of what commissions mean.
I've had a commission that took me about.. 2-3 MONTHS to complete and I would have still have done some personal work in between, for two reasons. 1. Warm-up drawings. 2. Lack of Inspiration on the commission, some times drawing something else helped me figure out what to do next on a paid work. HOWEVER: I would keep the buyer in the loop with what was going on with their commissioned piece. I also let people know I'm a bit of a slow artist so that really shouldn't amount to much.
but still its good to recognize you're being impatient and you are learning from this, which is a giant A+ there.
also as an after thought I have told a customer to stop asking about his commission. But it was only because he noted me on three different sites asking about it an hour after I accepted. I eventually canceled and refunded the commission in full because he was harassing me about it even after being told to stop.