[ SECRET POST #2815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2815 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[John Green]


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(Hemlock Grove)


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[Russell Edwards' Naming Jack the Ripper]


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[Coronation Street]
















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you weren't happy with your commission, you should have said something, OP. Unless they're an utter douchebag, artists want you to be happy with your commissioned piece of art, and they ought to be open to changes or at least try to make up for a mediocre attempt. I get that not everyone wants to be confrontational, but it was your money. No need to suffer in silence.

[otakugal15]

This. Most people who do commissions send out progress pieces to the buyer so that, at ANY POINT, the buyer can request changes and such.

If you didn't like it, why the hell did you not say anything?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't get any progress? Was I supposed to ask for one?

I didn't say anything once it was done because I had been told how great they were, and I felt like people would be mad at me for not being "grateful"

Re: OP

[otakugal15]

That's....unusual. I've done commissions before and I always made a point to send progress shots so the buyer would know what was coming and to tell me if I needed to change something.

Next time you commission, ask for that. It saves these kinds of headaches, believe me.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

If you order a steak at a restaurant and it tastes like rubber, do you have to be grateful for it? No, because you paid money for a product that's not supposed to be inferior. If you were getting that art for free as a gift, THEN you'd have to be polite and pretend to like it even if it was hideous. But this isn't a gift. You paid for it. The artist is not doing you a favor, it's a business transaction.

You can always soft-pedal the criticism if you want, like, "Oh, I love the ______ but I was hoping for something more like __________". But bottom line is, if you're not happy with the product you paid for, the artist needs to know.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

But you don't go back to the restaurant months later to complain about the bad steak and expect a refund. The time to complain has come and gone.

Re: OP

[diet_poison]

I don't know what it would take to get this to sink in but I think OP realizes that. That's why they're venting about it here instead of going back to the artist to complain at this time.

[(Anonymous)]

Some people were raised that way.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never known that to be standard for fanart commissions.

[otakugal15]

Seriously? All the big artists I used to look at for maybe splurging for a piece ALWAYS mentioned that they did progress shots...

Has this like, gone by the way side now or what?

O_o???

[(Anonymous)]

Even for my $15 quick sketches, I got a progress shot of the basic pencils before they inked it properly.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had an experience commissioning fanart where all the in-progress stuff was terrific.

Then something awful happened in the inking stage, and the piece came out terrible.

Fortunately, I had an "in-progress" image of the pencil sketch, so I consider that to be the commission I paid for. :)

[otakugal15]

To be frank, that's actually something that just...happens with us artists. Half the time, our sketch phase is our best work and no matter WHAT we do, the colored phase may not be that great, even if we did our damnedest.

It's very annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't do commissions, but that happens to pretty much every piece of fanart I have ever produced.

[(Anonymous)]

That's why shouldn't do commissions in the first place if you don't have the skill to deliver a good final product.

[(Anonymous)]

da I don't see how the sketch being better-looking means the final version is bad, though?

[(Anonymous)]

In my case, it was, though. Pencil sketch was absolutely brilliant. Final inked version, both characters' faces ended up looking like they'd been microwaved. All melty and out of proportion.

But thanks to otakugal15, now I know it's a case of "shit happens".

[otakugal15]

Nope. I disagree.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, okay.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Awww...

I figured it wasn't anything personal, so I never said anything to the artist. But thank you for giving me insight! I can draw stick figures on a good day, maybe, so I had no idea. :) My talents (such as they are) lie in the writing arena.