Beware: Adiago
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artists_bewareUpdate: In lieu of many conversations, I am in the process of updating my ToS to be more clear and a bit more lenient. Definitely thanks to those who have voice their opinions on this matter.
A couple days ago while I was livestreaming, I put up a few journals advertising that I would do cheap $5 sketches on stream for people that showed up and asked for them. A friend brought Adiago to the stream and she commissioned me for a piece, said she was happy with it when I finished, then left for bed.
Last night I was aimlessly browsing through Tumblr and found the sketch that I had done for her, edited and colored. I asked to take it down, because I don't really like to see my art other then places I post it for personal reasons, and it was quickly taken down. I thanked the person and went on my way. A quick and simple thing.
I then went to the submission that Adiago had posted up on her Furaffinity account and left a comment.
In the end, all I honestly cared about was if she would take it down from her gallery. It would have been nice if I was asked about it being edited or whatever, but I don't mind enough to make a super big deal about it. I would have rather gotten a message from her saying something like "Hey I edited and colored this, can I post it?" rather then finding the image on Tumblr.
My reason for this article is just to warn people of her, and I honestly would not like anyone else to have to run into something unfortunate like this.
This is her edit
and this is my original image
A couple days ago while I was livestreaming, I put up a few journals advertising that I would do cheap $5 sketches on stream for people that showed up and asked for them. A friend brought Adiago to the stream and she commissioned me for a piece, said she was happy with it when I finished, then left for bed.
Last night I was aimlessly browsing through Tumblr and found the sketch that I had done for her, edited and colored. I asked to take it down, because I don't really like to see my art other then places I post it for personal reasons, and it was quickly taken down. I thanked the person and went on my way. A quick and simple thing.
I then went to the submission that Adiago had posted up on her Furaffinity account and left a comment.
In the end, all I honestly cared about was if she would take it down from her gallery. It would have been nice if I was asked about it being edited or whatever, but I don't mind enough to make a super big deal about it. I would have rather gotten a message from her saying something like "Hey I edited and colored this, can I post it?" rather then finding the image on Tumblr.
My reason for this article is just to warn people of her, and I honestly would not like anyone else to have to run into something unfortunate like this.
This is her edit
and this is my original image
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Date: 2011-02-05 07:14 pm (UTC)Considering you seem to be a friend or are intending to befriend the artist, I'm going to take your viewpoint with a pinch of salt as it should be.
Regardless, it's still an unacceptable reaction. I may consider the client to be worse because of their actions but I don't think the artist's behaviour was putting their best foot forward.
Artists_beware isn't just about reporting bad commissioners, even the best of us sometimes make a pig's ear out of something. That's why there's a mixed response because while people can all appreciate that having an image altered and redistributed can be upsetting, we also will tell artists when they've made a less than stella show of themselves.
It's a beware because the artist doesn't seem to have a tight reign on her responses and behaved unprofessionally as a result, this may improve in future, just because an artists states that they'll rethink things doesn't mean that it will necessarily create a positive change, I would have to see positive future actions from the artist before I would relegate this one to "blip" status.