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[sigilgoat.livejournal.com]

After years of participating in the community as a member and moderator, I'm having to step down. My work as Art Director and getting into game design is really stretching me thin, causing me to trim down a lot of what I participate in.

I've appreciated my time here and I am sad to go, but it's a normal next step on my journey.

Thank you guys for everything <3
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Advice on how to proceed

[adzuki.livejournal.com]

The advice I need is on a sketchbook commission I have had for over a year that I need help on as far as how to proceed. The reason for this commission having taken so long is waiting for feedback, waiting for payment, a big move, and edits.

I am currently tackling older commissions and I am hung up on this one. The individual's ref sheet is difficult to understand and they stress the importance of their character's markings, which I understand..however it is hard to interperet with the reference given. I am almost done with the sketchbook, every page is filled and I am just have some inking and coloring of a few pages to do, but I get extremely anxious because every time I give a work in progress something is wrong with the markings of the character in question and each time it takes 4-5 edits everytime that character is in the picture.

They like everything else, but I feel like they are just going to be disappointed every time I try to render their character and I cant justify the amount of edits going into the sketchbook.

I dont know what I should do. Press on, or do what work I can and refund them for unfinished work?

Advice question for both commissioners and artists

[sleetfury.livejournal.com]

A while back when I was still playing Flight Rising, I commissioned an artist using the in game currency. The first transaction went awesomely, so I went back before I left the site and asked if they were still taking game currency for artwork and they said yes. I gave them the 400k left in the account and admittedly asked for a fairly complex piece that they were happy to do.

Recently I asked if there were any updates (because I knew from the first transaction that they were a slow-ish artist) and they admitted that they'd forgotten completely about it and asked if they could simplify the piece a bit. They said they'd drifted away from the site.

As my husband's birthday was coming up, I asked if they could change it to a couples piece of our characters and they were happy to do so and then I didn't hear anything from them for a while.

When I asked for another update, they sent me the finished piece and admitted that they felt like they weren't really being paid as they weren't using the site anymore. I asked for their paypal and sent them a tip (because the work was frankly amazing) but at the same time I feel a bit put off. I don't have a whole lot of "play money" right now which was the point of me asking people if they were taking the game's currency for commissions.

So, my question for both commissioners and artists, how would you have handled the situation? Do you feel like you're not really getting paid if you take a game currency commission?

Edit: Thanks, everyone, for all of your responses. Responding to everyone with the same thing is a bit silly so I'm putting it here. I feel really reassured about this whole transaction and I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt put off by the comment.