Artist Beware: Acorn/Squirrelworks RESOLVED

[eye0ffcenter.livejournal.com]

WHO: Acorn/Squirrelworks

WHERE: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/acorn/ and http://www.furaffinity.net/user/squirrelworks/

WHAT: A waist up sketch commission of five characters

WHEN: From April 14th 2011 - Feb 6th 2012 From first to most recent interaction.

PROOF: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/Newcanvas.jpg and http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/proof.jpg

EXPLAIN: I took the commission through a journal that she posted.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/Newcanvas.jpg

I also ordered another commission (which was a discount thing that she was doing at the time for female characters). She had me on her list of commissions and said that I didn't have to pay until I got an approval sketch. She never got around to it. I never paid, thank goodness, so it's not a big deal, but still relevant. I don't have any screenshots for this one and the journal I ordered it in is gone.

After four months of waiting for the sketch commission, I contacted her again and she replied telling me she forgot about it.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/forgot.jpg

Even though the journal I ordered it through was then and STILL IS up (at the time of me posting this).

Journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2255182/

After waiting a little under a month more, I contacted her again and she replied saying that she'd been suspended for a week and unable to access notes. 

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/suspension.jpg

Let's not forget that my commission was in a journal and not in notes and that a week suspension is not an excuse for a month MORE of waiting.

After this, I apologized to HER, because I really wanted the art from her. She asked me what kind of pose I wanted, so I thought I was getting somewhere.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/details.jpg

Bolded text is a link. After this, she told me she would upgrade it to a full body sketch since I'd waited so long. She was very polite throughout the entire ordeal, so don't misunderstand. What I am reporting is definitely not her attitude.

I waited about a month longer and then messaged her asking for a WIP (after seeing that she'd uploaded a couple of WIPs, which. I figured that after THIS LONG, she would have worked on it a little. Keep in mind, she'd been posting multiple other commissions and personal work daily.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/WIP.jpg

After this, I waited a week. Since she said before that she would work on it, I thought she might have SOMETHING to show for all of my waiting. To which she replied that she had no idea how to pose these characters. I already told her what I wanted five weeks ago.

So I replied giving her all of the information that I'd already given her again.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/Description.jpg

I contacted her again after nine days asking her how long she thought it might be before I'd see any results from her. She replied saying that she'd been really busy (doing more commissions?) and that I'd have to wait until she got all of her Halloween commissions done. Really? Just... Really?

I waited ANOTHER MONTH before contacting her again.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/Askingforarefund.jpg

This seemed to scare her into actually working on it (though I can't be positive of whether she'd worked on it at all before this point). Three days letter, I get a WIP.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/Unfinishedsketch.jpg
Submission: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6988259

Here, in the comments, she asked me for more detail so that she could finish.
Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/Commentsonsubmission.jpg

And her finger slipped here, but no one can fault her of that.

I waited two more months to ask for an update to which she replied that she still had all of my information. This is the last I've heard from her.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/LastwordfromAcorn.jpg

I waited a month after that to ask her about it again. The note is still unread after half a month. It's been a year and it's still not done.

Screencap: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/Unreadmessage-1.jpg

This is what I have: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t154/eyeoffcenter/Acorn/1323223101acorn_eyeoffcenter.png

The only unfinished one is my character. This would literally take her like ten minutes to finish.

Mood: accomplished

Edit: I received the finished image.
Submission: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7728551/

She was very professional about it after the initial journal and the turnaround was quick. I am very happy with the finished product.

Comments

[skittlewolf.livejournal.com]

WAT

Do you have proof of this at all?

[neolucky.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I wouldn't say otherwise.

Here we go - http://neolucky.com/acornedits.jpg

The top two are redlines to someone else's art, I have highlighted where in the conversation she mentions being asked to do edits, and how she'd charge for them. This entire thing is located in the later pages of Lulz, and is a shoop/edit/wolfynail bash thread.

[genkigami.livejournal.com]

Wow. Classy taking money to alter someone else's work without permission.

[neolucky.livejournal.com]

I was really hesitant on posting this screencap, because I wasn't sure of it's relevancy but...honestly, it's solid beware material =\

[otherscape.livejournal.com]

It's not just relevant; it's downright illegal! I'd make a beware of her off of this alone.

[eye0ffcenter.livejournal.com]

I agree. Much worse than what I've gone through, I'll admit.

[thaily.livejournal.com]

I'd say that is very relevant.

[skittlewolf.livejournal.com]

Yea. It's entirely relevant since it brings to light more of her terrible (and in this case, unethical) business practices.

[tunavoice.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable. So many users have been posted here for tracing/altering work or ANY other form of theft and being busted for attempting or actually making money off of it. She really should know better. This just makes me grit my teeth.

[otherscape.livejournal.com]

It's even more hypocritical when considering she posted a beware about someone tracing her and others' work, but the evidence turned out to be altered.

[tunavoice.livejournal.com]

...
Okay, I think that took the cake for me. I'm not gonna watch a person who displays that kind of behavior.

[otherscape.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I think she might have altered the work accidentally by unconsciously transforming it to fit the original when she resized them, though there's a very big, noticeable difference in some of them, so that's a big 'if'.

By the way, I love your Kermit icon. :D

[tunavoice.livejournal.com]

Oh man. :/ Either way to me that just reeks of suspicion.

And thanks! I have a ton I've yet to upload, he makes the best faces. XD

[taasla.livejournal.com]

... =\ Really? Come on, now. She should know better than that.

[roocodendron.livejournal.com]

Oh wow..this surprises me, she's been nice the few times we've talked and I remember the drama she had with someone tracing her art, so this is just.. Welp, unwatching :/ I don't want anything to do with that mess.