Ununique
Messiah of Alternate Accounts.
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- May 21, 2020
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To begin with, this is more of an author rant than a discussion.
After focusing the majority of my time the last 2 weeks in waiting for and trying to work with a freelance artist to commission a new book cover. My end result was a feeling of guilt over canceling the commission. However, I still remain with the same cover on my story as before, and a lot of time I have to make up to finish a chapter that's now 2 weeks late. The worst part is that I had been steadily getting updates on the progress for the cover with character concepts and the finished outline that were flat out amazing and pretty much everything I asked for. It was a commission that was scheduled for only 6 days and even then contact was ok since I asked if they would need more time after missing the first deadline. To which they responded yes. This repeated one more time before the third time they missed the deadline there was no update. So I still left a note of extending it another 4 days leaving it to a total of a 2 week or 14-day commission over the originally scheduled 6 days. Even then I waited for a response and nothing so today I outright canceled. The frustration and sadness come from the fact that many days were sunk into anticipating the new cover and releasing it alongside the new chapter as well as the effort that was put into the concept art and sketches. But not telling your client at least "it'll be a couple more days, I'm sorry" or "Could you give me more time?" makes it hard to even want to continue with the commission when you're just hung out to dry on details and the excuses were blatant lies. For example, "I'm finishing up coloring the background", on the first missed deadline would imply the coloring of the characters is done. Then, "I'm having trouble with the clothing on character 3", despite having told me the line art was complete and the coloring of the characters should have been done on the day it was due if they were running late. I get that those are inferences but given that they advertise a maximum of 5 days for a background and two characters on a commission and ask for 6 days on a custom commission with 3 characters I wasn't shocked they missed the first deadline. I didn't expect it to take more than double that for what should have been a bit more extended commission. But again they were working on it but communications deteriorated after 10 days. Those last four days? Nothing and I kept asking "are you okay?", "is there any detail or question you have left for the commission", and then just left the extra time I would wait and after 3 days, again nothing, like they disappeared so I just left the note that we're done.
Now I gotta get back to that promise I made on the forum from before.
After focusing the majority of my time the last 2 weeks in waiting for and trying to work with a freelance artist to commission a new book cover. My end result was a feeling of guilt over canceling the commission. However, I still remain with the same cover on my story as before, and a lot of time I have to make up to finish a chapter that's now 2 weeks late. The worst part is that I had been steadily getting updates on the progress for the cover with character concepts and the finished outline that were flat out amazing and pretty much everything I asked for. It was a commission that was scheduled for only 6 days and even then contact was ok since I asked if they would need more time after missing the first deadline. To which they responded yes. This repeated one more time before the third time they missed the deadline there was no update. So I still left a note of extending it another 4 days leaving it to a total of a 2 week or 14-day commission over the originally scheduled 6 days. Even then I waited for a response and nothing so today I outright canceled. The frustration and sadness come from the fact that many days were sunk into anticipating the new cover and releasing it alongside the new chapter as well as the effort that was put into the concept art and sketches. But not telling your client at least "it'll be a couple more days, I'm sorry" or "Could you give me more time?" makes it hard to even want to continue with the commission when you're just hung out to dry on details and the excuses were blatant lies. For example, "I'm finishing up coloring the background", on the first missed deadline would imply the coloring of the characters is done. Then, "I'm having trouble with the clothing on character 3", despite having told me the line art was complete and the coloring of the characters should have been done on the day it was due if they were running late. I get that those are inferences but given that they advertise a maximum of 5 days for a background and two characters on a commission and ask for 6 days on a custom commission with 3 characters I wasn't shocked they missed the first deadline. I didn't expect it to take more than double that for what should have been a bit more extended commission. But again they were working on it but communications deteriorated after 10 days. Those last four days? Nothing and I kept asking "are you okay?", "is there any detail or question you have left for the commission", and then just left the extra time I would wait and after 3 days, again nothing, like they disappeared so I just left the note that we're done.
Now I gotta get back to that promise I made on the forum from before.
