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Oh hold until Friday, September 11, 2020.  If artist doesn't respond, then the post will be set free.

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2 minutes ago, LeoneLaTwerk said:

Hello. Thank you for writing this...

I am so sorry. It has been a fairly long time since I have last spoken, but I did not expect you to after reading . During the time indicated here I had been going through a transitionary period with moving alone out of state with other troubles that made it hard to focus or remember what I did or did not do. I had assumed that I had already given your correction since you were already removed from my queue when I started being organized so I proceeded with the others down the list because you were checked somehow.

I try hard to make sure things are right and I always(at the time) thought I can get out of a situation at a certain time only to be let down because I under estimated my situation as a whole or overestimated my ability to keep up. I was in such a hurry to move away from my failing situation(and I wish I could say more) and I had to make all that money by myself. My inability to organize is what caused most of this. I would have seen  that it was not submitted and since I had not heard I assumed that our business was concluded around a month or 2 after your update post here. That is why I moved on to the next queue. I was not meaning to leave you hanging that way. Initially It was supposed to be a stormy cast so the tones had a reddish hue from the sky. All I had to do was take off the overlay on it, so I did and set it off to the side hoping to submit it same day. I did not purposely forget nor did I want to "not" submit the work. It does not make sense for me to not get the work done when my rep depended on it because I believe the more examples I have , more proof I could do set species for example. I have worked with you before and I feel like utter crap for not making due with what was promised.  I still have the file in my portfolio but even so I want to fix this.

I did not intend to have people break their trust with me and usually I did fine prior(and after 2019) I now have a built system dedicated to actual work with Display Cal as my screen calibrator. Currently I am doing Telehealth screenings due to covid to manage my mental status to improve and regain my work ethic in the past few months due to being unable to work during surgery next month. I just slow down in the mean time because I am in a way better position.

I want to set things right just as I had done with the other  queue slots that suffered from my irl issues and do another piece for you with this system with you present as I do it.  I was not made aware of this until just now. I took too many and went too fast jumping over some(although some changed their names on amino so I could no longer find them or I was scammed into doing the work without pay, making me have to take more to make up after having to quit my job at the time to leave. It was too much to handle at the time but given the urgency of the situation I did not think to confirm or slow down to see people not receiving their work. 

I apologise deeply. I never meant for any of this to happen. If I am able to make things work I really want to. You were wonderful to work with and I screwed up way more than I would like.  I just do not want this to stain everything because I want to get better. It has but in this case I never knew this is what has been festering. Again, I am sorry. Please forgive me. 

Heya!  It doesn't appear that the OP of this post is following it.  If you'd like to make sure they see this, then it would be best to PM them as well.  🙂

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10 minutes ago, cknsausage said:

I agree with you there, but I see this excuse over and over again on AB and frankly, if you can't handle the heat you should not be offering commissions. It stops being a hobby then, and starts becoming a business transaction. 
I guess I just have zero patience for these types pulling out the 'mental state' cards over and over as an excuse to dip out on owed art. 

This isn't an agree or disagree situation. I'm saying straight up comments of that nature will not be approved. You can criticize someone's behavior without mocking them.

2 minutes ago, cknsausage said:

"Waaaahhh, I can't discuss the job you paid me to do right now cos of my fragile glass mEnTAL sTaTe"

While I did approve this, let's not have any more comments from anyone straight up mocking him.  Anger, avoidance, ect. are all symptoms of mental health problems.  It explains his behavior, but it certainly doesn't justify how he behaves.

10 minutes ago, AsylumPatient said:

Not to double post (I couldn’t find a way to edit my post) but I did just check out the posted TOS of the OP on their page and I didn’t find any ‘do not edit’ clause at all. Not just ‘do not remove credit’ but I found absolutely nothing saying not to edit any part of the piece. Is the TOS Raven agreed to different than the one posted under the commission tab?

An artist's right to remove unauthorized edits of their work is a standard right.  It doesn't need to be in a ToS.  As an aside, in case it was missed in my comment (and I know not everyone is familiar with the species), credit to Adiago is required.

44 minutes ago, RTKobold said:

I actually have a question about this considering i've been hearing a lot about this Eclipse/Abyss Drake species considering is it a closed species considering if that's so that's in itself is a big massive yikes right there. Considering there's so many red flags right there.

Yes, it's an original species.  In the rules posted here, it says all postings of said designs need to have credit to the creator.  This is why OP had it taken down once the credit was removed.  Without getting into excessive detail, the creator is known to be volatile in general.

Edit:  Though I know in posting the journal I'm opening a can of worms, so for everyone reading: please keep comments focused on this specific transaction.  There's a lot to unpack in the species rules, but discussion on original species rules is best kept to the forums.

Honestly, I am surprised to see Raven behave this way.  

• The artist is entitled to the moral right of their work.  Meaning they can exercise their copyright to remove any unauthorized edits.
• Raven knows all too well how the species creator is, and how she behaves.  This opens up OP to potential harassment if the species creator feels she were snubbed by OP.
• Nowhere did the artist say that the art couldn't be used; just that the unauthorized edit needed to come down.  We even verified this in PM that this was the case while the post was in queue.  All Raven had to do was respond to the artist to work this out.

With that said both parties dropped the ball communication wise here.  OP should have reached out with a final warning before firing off the DMCA.  Raven could have reached out to work this out before filing a chargeback.

Now the artist has a ding to their seller rating when Raven had no right to edit OP's work in the first place.

Hi @Phonynomore your post has currently been downgraded to a Caution.  If you don't receive a refund of $75 by next month, send me, Snowhawk, or Armaina a poke and one of us can upgrade it for you.

While a year does seem like a long time, for a project of this scale it's hardly any time at all.  52 images is a lot.  Plus all of the edits, which sounds like either they hit a goal that would pay for edits for each card, or that many backers requested an edit to cover each card.  Either way, it's a lot of work and was an extremely ambitious undertaking.

However, this project does sound like there was some mistakes in the planning phases.  The artist talks about needing to raise printing money, but printing costs should have been calculated in the initial funding goal, set aside, and not touched.  Plus the sheer amount of extra things per category doesn't seem like enough money to cover the labor and extra deck prints involved.  It doesn't sound malicious.  Just missteps that can lead a project into a funding hole.  Hopefully the artist(s) involved can come out of it and get these decks out.

For anyone who might be visually impaired like me, and are thus unable to to see what's wrong with the heart on the paw:  The heart is made with minky dimple/ dot fabric instead of solid/ plain fabric.

As a member:  The artist should have notified you about the error.  If they ordered a solid and got a dimpled fabric, then that's a mistake on behalf of the supplier.  You would have missed your deadline, but it would have been right.  It's a simple rookie mistake.  However, I don't think you're due expedited shipping because of it.