artists_beware | Entries tagged with artist-novelteeth

Sorry if this isn't really acceptable here. I don't really know if this is important enough to be here or not. :s

WHO: Novelteeth (on FurAffinity. Unaware of any other aliases at this time)

WHERE: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/novelteeth (They disabled their account..)

WHAT: About a year ago, I purchased an icon from Novelteeth. They had been holding an Icon Day where anyone could get one of their Bug Eyed Icons for free, but if you gave them money you were guaranteed an icon. I had given them $5, thinking i'd be guaranteed one of their icons because in the past they had always finished them.
Months went by and not a single icon was produced as far as I know (none of the icons were uploaded to her gallery), BUT, they did post a few journals stating they were being worked on and such. I never thought to screen capture these though since I trusted their word and figured they had a lot of icons to go through.
Today though, I had remembered I purchased the icon and realized just how long it had been. I went to look them up on FA and realized they had disabled their account.
Now, i don't know if they moved accounts or just got fed up, packed their bags and left, but I know for a fact there were other people like me who paid for their icons. I'm not concerned about my meager amount of money I gave them and in total they probably got a good $50 or so from the people who did pay, but money given and no art received when it's expected isn't really fair, no matter how small the amount is.

I have no screenshot proof of any of the journals or the fact that I paid them, and i'm not really warning anyone to stay away from this artist because I believe this was just a case of too many art projects on their plate but I just want to know if anyone knows what happened to them or if anyone here bought the icons from their Icon Day and if they ever got them.