Don't do a commission for this guy.

It was brought to my attention by a wonderful person that a mass e-mail was sent out to many people from a former commission client of mine. I had thought this issue was resolved but he felt the need to embarrass me by sending out a terribly insulting email. I feel that I'm allowed to defend myself here to anyone who recieved the email and tell you my side of the story.


I did a few commissions for him in the past. Now I have done commissions for almost 10 years, I like to think I have had every possible type of client. I've had people who are very open to me having creative freedom. I've had people who are very VERY specific about certain details in a piece. When it is VITAL that a certain detail is needed in a commission I NEED TO BE TOLD THAT. He asked for a commission of my character Candy Cat and Raymond Fox. It was a basic simple commission, nothing fancy, just a two character pic. I spend 2 afternoons getting the piece finished. I send it to him confident that he would love it. I get a reply that was so nasty and filled with venom that I was practically in tears. Apparently it was VITAL that I drew Raymond FULL BODY. It was apparently so vital that he felt the need to send a horrible insulting nasty email to me pretty much stating that the commission was a piece of crap because Raymond wasn't full body. No client has EVER spoken to me so horribly...

Anyways an argument ensued about it and I refused to do anymore business with him because of how he spoke to me. He eventually appologized but that is no excuse to speak so horribly to ANYONE over something like a commission. Again, if it was THAT important that both characters were full body it should have been bold and underlined in the email or something. The way he acted you would have thought I committed the original sin or something..

Anyways we get back in contact weeks ago and once again he is looking for me to completely redo the commission and I refuse. I offer him a partial refund for the thing (it was only $40 but I wasn't going to give it all back because he got his commission) but he won't have it.

Now after a while we resolved our differences. He appologized and I appologized and he even asked me for a new commission, one that he would pay for. I told him that I could not do business with him again, but that we are fine now. He seemed alright with that and I have not heard from him since I get told about the email today.

I didn't think this issue was anyone's business but if he feels that it is alright to send insulting emails about me behind my back, I have the right to defend myself. I thought we were okay but I guess not..