#bjd commissions

If someone hits you up for a comission and you say I will get back to you, and never do, I will no longer consider you as someone to comission.

Pro tip: When you set out a plan to pay for layaway, or a time range to finish commission, STICK TO IT. If you can’t for whatever reason? Tell the seller/customer what happened instead of ignoring their messages! They would understand! Please, for the love of bjd god, don’t ignore them! Especially when you’re publicly active.

I hate how the majority of people in this hobby bend over backwards to be publicly nice to anyone who does commissions. It makes me feel like I'm weird for being angry at a someone for not doing what they're supposed to. Like, it's okay to be angry at someone you've paid a lot of money to for disappearing or changing terms without notice. People need to be held publicly accountable for poor practises, not coddled.

I want to do faceup commissions again, but the last couple of people I had to deal with were huge assholes. Changing deadlines, changing their mind, asking me to paint like 4 heads in 4 days while sending them a ton of progress photos. I work part time, I'm not a painting machine, but some people don't understand that even if you say how long it'll take you to finish the work. I miss the good people, but can't stand the stress of worrying someone might turn out to be crazy.

I recently commissioned someone to paint my D&D miniatures. He was SO professional. He signed a contract stating he would not keep my miniatures over 20 days. He sent regular progress photos. And he was so reasonably priced! I wish faceup artists and tailors in the doll community would hold themselves to such professional standards.