Caution: EylonFerrousa

Oof exactly I was so confused by all that they were saying I had to ask around in a bunch of chats I was in just to make sure I was correct; it was so ridiculous that I just needed to double check XD

I'll definitely try to keep an eye out if that sketch ends up anywhere; I don't know his usernames for any other art websites so it's unlikely I'll find anything unfortunately, but I'm just happy it was only a sketch and not a full drawing. If anything further happens, I'll definitely post an update.

"breach of contract" you cant breach a contract that you never signed. in fact this person making you sketch work and not paying for it is closer to breaching a contract than you are.

A congratulations are in order to this would be client for receiving a rare, preemptive FA block from me. Absolutely ludicrous and thank you for coming forward about this.

Glad to see that you know your rights! They could *try* to take you to court, but they would not be successful. For one, their TOS does not supersede copyright law. For two, you can't sue someone for breaching a contract they were never even told about.

Technically, if you want to get into it, he still owes you for the sketch, since he was the one that cancelled, but it ain't worth the hassle. Hopefully you can find someone to resell it to, since it's a pretty generic "fluffly dragon" design.

Ooh, definitely blocking that one. Just.. honestly what goes on in some people's heads? Even art that is paid for the artist retains copyright to except if they've explicitly signed that right away (for a sizeable sum, hopefully).

Your art, he owns nothing - especially since he didn't even pay for it! Just laugh in his face and go on your merry way.

I know you said you changed your practices because of this person, but just in case, I'd advise you to watermark all your WIPs heavily, as tons of clients will do things like this with unwatermarked incomplete art.

I want to applaud you for keeping your cool and calling their bluff on their obvious attempts to scare you, well done. You hold full copyrights to your work and they have no right to use it, regardless of whatever strange "client ToS" they try to throw at you.

I agree with Bornes above, I'd definitely consider watermarking your WIPs when sending them to a client. I once had a similar situation to this and from then on I have used a WIP watermark that explicitly states that "artist retains rights" etc. etc. Safe to say for reasons like these I always mark everything I do and I highly recommend you to aswell ♥

I've gone ahead and pre-emptively blocked this person on FA - definitely not someone I want to interact with.

11 hours ago, Bornes said:

I know you said you changed your practices because of this person, but just in case, I'd advise you to watermark all your WIPs heavily, as tons of clients will do things like this with unwatermarked incomplete art.

Oh yeah I'll definitely be watermarking all WIPs from now on; I was really naïve when I first started taking commissions, and I thought that if I was friendly to commissioners, they would be friendly back. It never occurred to me that I could be seriously taken advantage of; I've had a few somewhat rough experiences, but this one has definitely been the worst.

If any of you guys don't watermark WIPs or don't charge at least partially upfront, you'll be taken advantage of; please learn from my mistakes, guys ^^;

Wow, it truly takes an evil mastermind to come up with that. : D

No big deal though, just let them know that  your Messager's ToS states that anyone who ever messaged you agreed to donate a kidney and a firstborn child to you. 

Even if they haven't taken proper care of their kidneys, it should at least cover the cost of the time you've wasted on them. 

Hasbro's CEO doesn't give a shit about furry drama lmfao. Don't know what this dude was thinking mentioning him. Regarding this, if you give me the date that he said he was talking with the CEO, I could verify with the CEO myself. but it is obviously BS. so it'd only verify the obvious lie.

Sorry to see that this happened to you. No one deserves a bad customer.  ):

Hello, LMy name is Coraiden, the friend of Eylon who's living with them and I wanted to confess that I am the one that said these things to you through my friend. Do not blame them for my actions. I thought it would have been just a fun joke to mess with my friend and I guess it did real harm. I am very, very sorry to you and my friend Eylon.

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I laughed a lot at "If you can't afford a $40 commission, you can't afford court costs". Well played, nice dodge, lesson learned

So they are seriously trying to play this hold thing off as their "friend" pulling a prank of them. Even posted a journal on FA as well. https://imgur.com/a/8gW1ckp

4 hours ago, Scourge said:

So they are seriously trying to play this hold thing off as their "friend" pulling a prank of them. Even posted a journal on FA as well. https://imgur.com/a/8gW1ckp

Even if one were to entertain the thought of it being a joke by someone else, let's list the red flags:

- No message to the artist after these mysterious 'friend's' messages were sent - surely that's something you'd rush to apologize for / explain? And the artist responded sooo.. not likely they didn't see it

- Somehow doesn't have the TG chat after only a couple of weeks

- 'Abruptly excused myself (unsaid) - again, what? Just didn't return to check the messages.. ever?

- Throws friend (if they exist) under the bus with generic excuses ('they steal and aren't all there mentally'). Cool.

Hmmmmm.. surely, apologizing is less effort than trying to divert and place blame where it's not due? Lmao, honestly. This dude is ridiculous.

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On 4/6/2019 at 7:09 AM, Scourge said:

So they are seriously trying to play this hold thing off as their "friend" pulling a prank of them. Even posted a journal on FA as well. https://imgur.com/a/8gW1ckp

Given how often the "My brother/sister/friend did it!"-excuse is used when appealing bans on servers, I call nonsense on that and he's just trying to avoid taking responsibilty for his behaviour.

10 hours ago, UAZ469 said:

Given how often the "My brother/sister/friend did it!"-excuse is used when appealing bans on servers, I call nonsense on that and he's just trying to avoid taking responsibilty for his behaviour.

Oh I know. But I'm glad they tried to comment here and say the same thing without knowing the admins can see their email. Only proves this is all lies.

Goodness, this is indeed laughable coming from the commissioner. You've nailed every point about their imaginary "ToS", which is something I have never heard a commissioner have before. That is equivalent to me going to a store, canceling what I was about to buy, and telling the cashier, "Hey, don't let anybody buy that ok? If they do, I'm calling the police because they're stealing it."

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to lunch with my boss, the CEO of Microsoft. I promised I'll pay his way since he's short on cash today.

Wow, thanks for the heads up on this person! 

He was irked by this, saying that he'd rather I not reuse it, since he would be using the sketch.

Holy heck, I simply cannot NOPE this hard enough. Everything this person has done during your interaction is beyond comprehension. 

I know writing one of these isn't always easy, but thank you so much for the heads up.