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  • Caution SourShockX

    domiwoof

    By domiwoof

      • Who: SourShockX
      Where: www.deviantart.com, Discord, www.tumblr.com, www.twitter.com, www.picarto.com
      When: 12/19/2017
      What: Commission
      NSFW Content

    Eden
    Message added by Eden

    Due to the highly subjective nature of the quality issues, the moderation team has ultimately decided to leave it in and let the community decide for themselves.

    This item has also been downgraded to a Caution from a Beware.

    I have been a patron of SourShock's for nearly two years and have come to known them throughout my time as a patron to be very aggressive about taking large amounts of commissions with very little timely yield. In December, Sour was hosting a sort of fast sketch sale over Picarto, and I purchased a fetish piece for myself and a friend as a Christmas gift featuring our characters having sex in a locker room for $50.00. I had a falling out with that friend so the character ended up replaced, but I never even received a sketch for this piece as far as I can recall and stopped hearing from Sour for several months sometime at the end of last year. I finally got fed up enough to ask them about the commission. They had previously said in her Discord server not to ask about WIPs and so I was doing my best to obey that rule, but it occurred to me an update wouldn't come without me inquiring. When I inquired with Sour (and mind you, this inquiry also contained several subsequent inquiries about five other commissions, one of which was made in October of 2017 and had been followed-up with extensively by me up until the WIP enforcement) I received some very aggressive excuses about their ability to complete work in a timely fashion and how I would not be able to receive a refund because it had already been "started". I told them I really wanted the piece by May 15th or I would be posting a Beware and pursuing a Paypal refund. They said I would be able to receive it and the first piece in that timely interval (this inquiry was in March) but it would mean a significant reduction in quality.

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    image.thumb.png.0bf3989db9e3d2851929a80c6bcc069f.png

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    As you can see, I've waited to submit the Beware. And well, they made true on their word. I got both pieces on May 14th at around 6:00 PM, and the first was extremely disappointing. The second, my character's skin color wasn't even right and the lighting looked rushed. I am not satisfied with this work after spending so long pursuing it. I urge you not to do business with them. I regret giving them so much of my money already knowing I will probably never see those comms. The reduction in quality is evident. The piece looks rushed and mostly unfinished.

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    Completed image:

    domi_x_bayani_by_sourshockx_dd6x2un.png

     

    WIP image:  Note the poor background

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    Examples of other sketch commissions:

    http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26325014/

    http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25218125/

    http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24451194/

     

    My character's swatches:

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    baja

    baja 228

    Posted

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    The lack of a public queue, and the oversaturation of the private queue is a big hoo-eyyyy... No good. It is a beware well-warranted in regards to their practices, and they should be rightfully avoided. And while you are in the right to be frustrated with the situation as a whole, the artist was at the very least, transparent with you about the quality of the work you were going to get after the confrontation.

    In accepting the art you have shown in this post, I personally think it is null and void to bring up the quality of the work when the artist was clear they were going to rush your pieces within the timeframe given.

    It doesn't make them come off any better, but when pressed to produce something after leaving commissioners hanging, this is often the outcome a lot of people see. In this case, the artist flat-out told you what you were going to get.

    And, really, unless we have a reference of your character to compare the images you got with? I don't think there's much of a point to put the color swatches up as a point of contention with the art pieces you got.

    One of them is cel-shaded, while the other seems to have full render with ambient lighting, it isn't going to be one-to-one with whatever reference you've given. And not every artist may use the exact palette depending on how they will render the work.

     

    This is a rather, well, sour situation, but they were still up front with what you ended up getting.

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    Rendrassa

    Rendrassa 177

    Posted

    It's never a good sign when an artist makes it clear clients can't ask about the status of their piece.

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