Being said, if I am disappointed - I will still *always* pay, but I just might not display it anywhere.
i really can't agree with you more. granted, i haven't been dissatisfied many times, though when i am i just chalk it up as a minor loss if the artist is unable to make a certain modification (or two).
In other words, leave as much as I can to the artist's creative vision and satisfy the basic requirement of the commission's description.
this is something that's important to me as someone who commissions art.
so long as they get the basic details of my character down, i'm fine with whatever the artist comes up with. tweak her outfit, make her hair a different style, whatever! you can never make an artist depict something exactly as you envision it, so why not be happy with their interpretation? though i have to say, pac is the only artist i've commissioned thus far that's translated my precise ideas into art. it's like magic, and a little bit uncanny!
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Re: View from the other side of the table
Date: 2009-06-11 08:20 am (UTC)i really can't agree with you more. granted, i haven't been dissatisfied many times, though when i am i just chalk it up as a minor loss if the artist is unable to make a certain modification (or two).
In other words, leave as much as I can to the artist's creative vision and satisfy the basic requirement of the commission's description.
this is something that's important to me as someone who commissions art.
so long as they get the basic details of my character down, i'm fine with whatever the artist comes up with. tweak her outfit, make her hair a different style, whatever! you can never make an artist depict something exactly as you envision it, so why not be happy with their interpretation? though i have to say,