The artist's 15 commandments

- Paying before discussing your commission idea: this is basically going to a store and throw your money on the face of the salesman, nobody would like that to happen, there could be some issues like you not knowing how the artist queue is like ,if they have another commissions before "yours", you could take the risk of your commission not being accepted once or forever

- Paying more to hurry/rush the artist and not discussing it beforehand: this needs to be disscussed between the two parts, not all the artist work the same, and this can bring issues and make them get in trouble with their other clients, and make them get stressed for no reason.

- Haggling the prices: BIG NO NO, lets remember art is a luxury and NOT a need! Each artist has its own prices based on the time and "skills" they have

- Abusing changes: one thing is the artists committing mistakes and another issue is if they're committing "mistakes" because they don't have enough or clear references to work, so they're forced to fix the commission again and again for a week. How can you prevent this to happen? Give them all the images and references you have or can search and if you think some of them are not clear or easy to understand

- Demand the PSD files without paying the respective fees

- Rush the artist: its understandable that everyone wants their commission done, but please lets remember that artists have more clients besides you and a personal life, one thing is that your artist disappears for weeks or months, there it is understandable to ask them how its going, but if you see they're working and delivering commissions, please dont rush them, they're working as fast as they can!

- Edit commissions without the artist's permission

- Erasing or cropping the artist's signature

- Pretending a special treatment for antique: its not said that this can't be done, but not everyone feels confortable to do so, so dont take it personal if this doesn't applies to you

- Forcing and interaction with the artist: if you want to bond with them (in any way) you need their approval first, not every artist wants to befriends with their clients so its nothing to be mad about, not everyone wants to befriends with their co-workers or classmates, let's think it that way

- Pushing the artist to take a commission they refused to do: all artists reserve the right to accept or deny a commission, this must be respected and not questioned

- Constant messages about the status of your commission: its really annoying and can be bothering

- Neglecting communication with the artist: please dont disappear without notice, there's a "child" to create and takes two to make that happen

- Respect each artist's time and their time zones

- Respect the art style of each artist