suffokate

As a more recent update, earlier this month (June 2024) I once again brought up my frustration with scaretactik at my piece still not being complete while they continue to finish work for others & pieces commissioned more recently than mine. A deadline for the end of this month was proposed by them and agreed upon, but I haven't gotten any further updates on the progress of my piece so I'm kind of assuming it isn't done based off of my experience with this so far.

Three days ago on the 25th, I messaged them on discord asking about this and to be refunded if it is not complete. I haven't heard back yet, this has been ongoing since January 2022 now and I'm just exhausted and want my money back rather than continually having this dragged out further. I cannot in good faith recommend commissioning them still.

as an update: it'll have been 2 years since I commissioned them in a few days, and this piece has still not been completed. I do consider them (scaretactik) a friend and chat with them outside of discussions purely related to this, but I want them to do better & organize themself better and believe there's still room for improvement. Other commissions they've taken after mine/more recently have been completed sooner, and I still don't entirely know when mine will be finished.

Scaretactik has responded to me, we are currently trying to work something out for the completion of the artwork.

I still have not heard from scaretactik but have attempted to send one last message to them, I will provide another update if they do actually respond: 

As an update to this, since initially submitting this post I have received my commission. I received a response to my message on August 12th along with a WIP and had a chat with netcrow that leads me to believe they genuinely wanted to rectify the situation and plan to change & improve how they handle commissions going forward. I received the finished piece today and am very happy with it and appreciate them being understanding towards the situation and why I had submitted a beware here:

Leone contacted me via PMs and this was able to be resolved; a new art piece was agreed upon and has been completed now, so I'm happy with this. 

Just commenting here to let the mods know <: 

Leone messaged me on Friday (the 19th) with an update on my commission, but the colors for my character are off. I pointed this out and was told that it's an issue he's having with things not displaying correctly, so I'm waiting on another update now as he tries to correct it. 

Here's the character's ref sheet for comparison: