lol Groot is the worst fucking part. At least you could pretend Rocket is some aspect painting. Groot has a 3-inch left arm and a fucking octopus for his right arm/hand.
Any hope for this painting?
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You havent answered one of the most fundamental questions. Did you even ask the guy for samples of his work. You know to get an idea of what this person is capable of. Because I can charge you half the price to shit on a big canvas and my Rocket and Groot would probably look way better.
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He wrote back:
This is why I didn’t want to send you another pic. I’ll just gesso it and you can have your canvas back. I’ve already put more time into this than what I’m charging you for. You’re welcome to see it in person to look at the painting. You can let me know whether you’d like me to continue on or gesso over it.
This is why I didn’t want to send you another pic. I’ll just gesso it and you can have your canvas back. I’ve already put more time into this than what I’m charging you for. You’re welcome to see it in person to look at the painting. You can let me know whether you’d like me to continue on or gesso over it.
Nidhogg
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Defensive off the bat means he knows it's a shitshow and probably got his start in art by eating crayons.
"I've probably put more time in this than what I'm charging you for." Bitch better have been painting with his eyelashes for 5 months solid for this to even approach being true.
"I've probably put more time in this than what I'm charging you for." Bitch better have been painting with his eyelashes for 5 months solid for this to even approach being true.
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Sorry man, this is all on you for not looking at completed samples up front. I've commissioned pieces before and either had a good idea what I'd be getting up front in terms of style or adjusted my expectations accordingly. And this is just for small pieces for $60-$100 range. You'd bet your ass I'd be researching before dropping $500 on a bigger piece like that.
Eat the $500 as agreed to, thank him for his time and move on.
Eat the $500 as agreed to, thank him for his time and move on.
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Alasliasolonik
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Pay the guy but leave it in a garbage can that he can see out his window.
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Hateyou
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I’d gesso it and give him $50-$100 for his time. No way I’d do $500. He said he could do something that he obviously couldn’t. I wouldn’t even call you a dick for giving him nothing, but maybe just let him keep the canvas, suggest he finish it and try selling it elsewhere?
Good story overall thanks for sharing. Also
Bandwagon
agreed to print that other one for you for $250. Since he would be the asshole for backing out I suggest holding him to that price, at the original size, on brushed aluminum.
Good story overall thanks for sharing. Also
Bandwagon
agreed to print that other one for you for $250. Since he would be the asshole for backing out I suggest holding him to that price, at the original size, on brushed aluminum.
ronne
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If you really wanna take him to pound-town over this.
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Reddit - Dive into anything
If you really wanna take him to pound-town over this.
Please someone post this there and send the link!!
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Regarding the painting and paying for it: I showed him pics of what I was wanting, like this
So he said that he didn't want to rip off an artist, so what he ended up doing was finding some nerd statue thing of rocket on groot, then he took a pic of it at that angle and started with that. he had sent me an earlier progress pic which I thought was bad too, and I told him I had concerns about the framing of the picture, and that I wanted the pic ot be about rocket and groot, close up and intimate like these pics, but that the pic was all about groots weird long arm and the amputated other arm. He said how it was going to look fine, etc. So I kind of see it as I expressed what I wanted, he did what he wanted, and it came out like shit. The canvas itself is worth about $200 (it's 5 feet tall, six feet wide, deep gallery canvas). I like the idea of if he genuinely thinks his work is good let him finish it and sell it elsewhere, or he can gesso the canvas and keep it.
The canvas itself I got from another artist who is well known and does great work, and I had them do something and when they delivered it was horrid. So he actually gessoed over that painting. Maybe the canvas is cursed, but I can't pay twice for shitty artwork.
So he said that he didn't want to rip off an artist, so what he ended up doing was finding some nerd statue thing of rocket on groot, then he took a pic of it at that angle and started with that. he had sent me an earlier progress pic which I thought was bad too, and I told him I had concerns about the framing of the picture, and that I wanted the pic ot be about rocket and groot, close up and intimate like these pics, but that the pic was all about groots weird long arm and the amputated other arm. He said how it was going to look fine, etc. So I kind of see it as I expressed what I wanted, he did what he wanted, and it came out like shit. The canvas itself is worth about $200 (it's 5 feet tall, six feet wide, deep gallery canvas). I like the idea of if he genuinely thinks his work is good let him finish it and sell it elsewhere, or he can gesso the canvas and keep it.
The canvas itself I got from another artist who is well known and does great work, and I had them do something and when they delivered it was horrid. So he actually gessoed over that painting. Maybe the canvas is cursed, but I can't pay twice for shitty artwork.
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Lanx
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STOP trying to justify your fuck up of not seeing his portfolio, and just commissioning him based off his fucking pottery painting
that garbage is never going to look good, pay him for time and materials and break away.
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Fuck that. I have a plotter at work. I was going to split it into 2 pages and tape them together with duct tape.I’d gesso it and give him $50-$100 for his time. No way I’d do $500. He said he could do something that he obviously couldn’t. I wouldn’t even call you a dick for giving him nothing, but maybe just let him keep the canvas, suggest he finish it and try selling it elsewhere?
Good story overall thanks for sharing. Also
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Loser Araysar
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you should get him to reuse the canvas and paint a handful of twenty dollar bills being lit on fire
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