Yeah, I've had some troubles lately with some commission requests, myself. I usually look arounf DeviantArt to look for good artists that I might want to commission. Well, I found an artist whose work that I loved. He had even done quite a few CoH commissions. So I look at his work for a time, and then decide that I might want to budget some money to get one, since I have been wanting a retro-style pinup of my CoH main for ages now. So I send him an email with my character info, detailing what kind of picture I would want, and how big. I explain that I would like a quote on how much something like this might cost me. Well, after after his reply he wants me to go into a bit more detail on what is is I wanted with the pose, and how much skin I wanted the picture to show. I reply with what I wanted, and of all things, he condescendingly replies back to me and tells me that what I asked for is not what I want, and tells me that I want something different. I reply no, and then send him some other pictures that show something along the lines of what I wanted. After this, his reply was to send me an unasked for REALLY rough sketch of the pose that he wanted, which was nothing along the likes of what I requested. He then finally after emailing back and forth 4 times gave me the quote that I asked originally for.
But after all the attitude, and what he wanted to draw not being what I wanted, and a higher price than I would have even thought, I decided that I would not be dealing with this artist. So he then sends me an email asking if I would was going to go ahead with the commission or not. I tell him no, I would not be requesting any art from him. After this, during the next day I am once again looking through DA to search for some artists, and realize that he has removed himself from my "watch" list, and I have been blocked on his account. I then go to the page and see that he is so pissed about what I've done that thinks he can get back at me by giving away free art to others, to show me what I'll never get. He even goes so far as to say that I racially insulted him, and that he was taken advantage of. I then go to his forums and see that not only have I been banned there as well, my freakin' IP has been blocked. Some of you probably know who I'm talking about by now. Anyway, I responded to him explaining exactly WHY I didn't want to do business with him, and that I didn't mind that others got free art for this. Besides, why would I care? If anything, I could look at it like others were getting cool, free art because of something I did. Sorta like giving back to the community...
I still check his art from time to time, because I still do enjoy it, but this has sort of left a sour taste for commissions lately.
