Unprofessional Commission Conduct
Are there standards which commissioned artists are expected to follow? And if not, why the hell not?
On a recent thread I started, I noticed how a number of people complained how they would commission an artist but could end up waiting months and months to get anything. Off the boards, I heard one person complaining how a commission was paid years in advance, and still nothing. In my view, that's unprofessional. Artists are business people, not just artists. They are expected to meet produc
This. It's what I saw when I looked at the portfolios of commissions of Jonah Hex that I had at one time. I looked at how much I'd spent in time and money getting all these commissions of the same character and, wow, it added up to several thousands of dollars. In the end, all of those I either lost money on or barely broke even when I eventually traded them away.
I don't currently have a focus and it's made collecting so much more fun. Before, I felt bound by my collecting focus and had to
