DAKImakura

On 4/6/2019 at 12:17 PM, Rendrassa said:

Remember that artists should see you as their boss when you've paid them for work. You should never feel ashamed speaking up to an artist if they are negligent. Just be polite as rikki said and as an artist myself, I have to admit I prefer to remain professional without a lot of social chit chat with clients. And I, personally, am not part of some inner circle and see that kind of behavior as negative. We're not all the same.

Thanks Rendrassa.  I'll keep that in mind and my apologies if I've offended you with that way of thinking.  It was more out of fear and overthinking that came to that toxic conclusion.  But I'll keep that in mind ?

On 4/4/2019 at 12:34 PM, rikki said:

It's super shitty on their part that they up and flounced, but I think you need to be more direct in your communication with an artist when it comes to your commissions in the future.

Its one thing to just be open-ended and friendly, but as this was a business transaction, you should have lead with wanting to discuss the commission instead of just repeating 'Hey/Hi/Hello!' every time you wanted to speak to them.

You can still be friendly, just drop a 'Hey, its been a while since I've heard from you! I was just checking in to see how the progress on my commission was coming along?' or something like that?

It can be misconstrued by some people that the vague poking in DMs is just meant to be conversational vs professional.
Still does NOT excuse them ghosting you, but its just a small suggestion for any future commissions you get ?

Thanks Rikki, I'll keep that in mind next time.  I'm usually a bit hesitant since I've kinda scared myself into thinking that artists tend to have an inner circle and if you give them trouble, they'll blacklist you and spread the word to avoid this particular client.  But after so long, I think enough was enough.  So, yeah, I'll do that next time!  Thank you ?