It is shady, I've honestly laughed people into oblivion for approaching me over IM or forum PMs to ask me to commission THEM, but this was ages ago (the dark times of 2005).
I know someone who is rather famous for the large quantity of commissions they get of two particular characters of theirs; so people would hound them with the same strategy used here. And it got to the point they made a notice saying any communications regarding artists going 'hay u got monies, commission me!' or any variant were going to get blocked, and their sales pitch chucked into the spam folder.
Which is how it SHOULD be. No one freaking likes those spam emails; so when an artist tries to get you to pay them for art and you didn't approach first? Byeeee~
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I know someone who is rather famous for the large quantity of commissions they get of two particular characters of theirs; so people would hound them with the same strategy used here. And it got to the point they made a notice saying any communications regarding artists going 'hay u got monies, commission me!' or any variant were going to get blocked, and their sales pitch chucked into the spam folder.
Which is how it SHOULD be. No one freaking likes those spam emails; so when an artist tries to get you to pay them for art and you didn't approach first? Byeeee~