You said: "That being said... there is a side to this story that has not been mentioned.... While this may or may not qualify as a good excuse in the eyes of others here, I still feel this should be mentioned...
"Featherdragon approached our (Kamicheetah's and my) table at MFF 2009. He commissioned Kami to draw a couple herm dragon characters. This seemed simple enough... nothing we have not done before.
"We were NOT ready for Featherdragon's 20+ page reference booklet that he dropped on her, which contained the following:
"1.) Several different photos of his head at dozens of angles (because somehow the beaked dragon was supposed to have facial features that matched his)
"2.) Several shirtless photos of himself, also at different angles (though, considering the giant lactating boobs, hyper penis, giant balls that must sag a foot between the legs, and wings, I don't see how a body of his size could hold or be seen behind such details)
"3.) Very meticulously detailed character descriptions.
"4.) Several footnotes scattered throughout the references.
"5.) Several images of nearly each and every body part, clipped from images of other characters, drawn by other artists, which he wanted us to somehow incorporate into our drawings, all of which severely limited our creativity. "6.) Several references of his character.
"7.) Other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting, but cannot remember now, since his reference encyclopedia is not in front of me."
My reply: You accepted my money and agreed to work on the commission. You should have voiced any concerns or objections at the beginning when I gave you my references. I'm not a mind reader Gunmouth.
All you had to say was: 'Hey, I'm sorry but that's way too much stuff and I can't work with it. Just give me a brief description and one or two pictures or I wont be able to draw something for you.' I would either accommodated you or chosen not to proceed with the commission. By agreeing to take-on the commission and voicing no concerns at the time you implicitly agreed that everything was ok and ready to go forward from a business transaction standpoint. So, don't blame be for that and nothing stopped you from voicing your concerns to me afterward either--instead, I had to learn about it from your Livejournal post.
I admit, I could have been better organized with my details. I tried to be but I know I fell short. Yet, I thought that by giving you pictures and descriptions it would help give you an idea what I wanted. Part of the reason there were so many pictures was because pictures help communicate some concepts faster than words so I thought to include many examples that altogether would give the artist a quick visual idea of what I like on average artistically. It's also what made the document I gave you seem longer than it really was; I couldn't print those pictures too small or else you wouldn't be able to see any details.
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You said:
"That being said... there is a side to this story that has not been mentioned.... While this may or may not qualify as a good excuse in the eyes of others here, I still feel this should be mentioned...
"Featherdragon approached our (Kamicheetah's and my) table at MFF 2009. He commissioned Kami to draw a couple herm dragon characters. This seemed simple enough... nothing we have not done before.
"We were NOT ready for Featherdragon's 20+ page reference booklet that he dropped on her, which contained the following:
"1.) Several different photos of his head at dozens of angles (because somehow the beaked dragon was supposed to have facial features that matched his)
"2.) Several shirtless photos of himself, also at different angles (though, considering the giant lactating boobs, hyper penis, giant balls that must sag a foot between the legs, and wings, I don't see how a body of his size could hold or be seen behind such details)
"3.) Very meticulously detailed character descriptions.
"4.) Several footnotes scattered throughout the references.
"5.) Several images of nearly each and every body part, clipped from images of other characters, drawn by other artists, which he wanted us to somehow incorporate into our drawings, all of which severely limited our creativity.
"6.) Several references of his character.
"7.) Other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting, but cannot remember now, since his reference encyclopedia is not in front of me."
My reply:
You accepted my money and agreed to work on the commission. You should have voiced any concerns or objections at the beginning when I gave you my references. I'm not a mind reader Gunmouth.
All you had to say was: 'Hey, I'm sorry but that's way too much stuff and I can't work with it. Just give me a brief description and one or two pictures or I wont be able to draw something for you.' I would either accommodated you or chosen not to proceed with the commission. By agreeing to take-on the commission and voicing no concerns at the time you implicitly agreed that everything was ok and ready to go forward from a business transaction standpoint. So, don't blame be for that and nothing stopped you from voicing your concerns to me afterward either--instead, I had to learn about it from your Livejournal post.
I admit, I could have been better organized with my details. I tried to be but I know I fell short. Yet, I thought that by giving you pictures and descriptions it would help give you an idea what I wanted. Part of the reason there were so many pictures was because pictures help communicate some concepts faster than words so I thought to include many examples that altogether would give the artist a quick visual idea of what I like on average artistically. It's also what made the document I gave you seem longer than it really was; I couldn't print those pictures too small or else you wouldn't be able to see any details.
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