A Rant About Commissions + Smarty Pants Update

Things Commissioners Shouldnt Do by purplekecleonhttps://purplekecleon.tumblr.com/pos.....256675/hottips
this fellow posted something all commissioners should keep in mind.
"Things Commissioners Shouldn't Do
So I'm really, really tired of dealing with most commissioners. There are plenty of awesome and nice ones out there, of course! But there are a good lot of people who never really learned tact or any sort of social skills and then somehow got a hold of money and a head full of ideas.
Let's start with…
Please don't ever:
1) Beat around the bush - be frank in your desire, don't be a snake.
not many things are more annoying than PMing me or having some small talk with me for 5-10 minutes and then abruptly pretending you just remembered that you wanted to commission me, or wanting to check on if I'm gonna do your picture or not. Just don't do this. Be direct. You don't have to be weird to be direct. It's really easy to go, "so, I was wondering, do you think you'd have time for a commission?" or "hey could you tell me how far yo
I'd like to repost this public service announcement due to recent events regarding commissions...in particular, a VERY negative experience with a recent one that really gave me a downer after a hard work week.

When I work as hectic a day job as I do, while trying to fit in time to hit the gym and look after my health and looking forward to coming home to draw, it really kills my motivation when a commissioner pesters me EVERY HOUR, leaving ten notes in my inbox throughout the day asking the same damn question regarding the details of their request. I get what they're doing, being all up in my ear until I respond, but really...ten notes sent to me every hour on the hour?  Is there any justification for this kind of pestering?  I know I'm a damn busy guy and can't always get around to checking this site, but I try to get to all comments and notes when I can.

But my understanding was that they didn't know my work and life situation, so I gave them a reminder that I work a very busy day job but always get around to answering my messages.  There is only a need to ask a question once, and I WILL get around to answering it, like I do with all comments I get on my work (at least the ones that have value).  I didn't state that asking the same question every hour until I respond gets annoying fast, because...well...that's pretty much common fucking sense to anyone who has more than one working brain cell.

And THEN.  OH BOY.  The day after I let the commissioner know I'm busy at work during the day, the same damn moron asks me THREE TIMES IN ONE DAY, "Is my picture finally done yet?"

...

I shit you not.  Their exact words, "Finally done yet?"  All while I am busy at work, put an ass-ton of effort into the pictures and comics I am fortunate enough to find the spare time to draw, and most importantly, have asked them once to be considerate of my hectic schedule already.

Why I should have to ask someone to be CONSIDERATE and show some COMMON FREAKING DECENCY in this day and age...I really have NO FUCKING IDEA.

...Anyway, with that goddamn bullshit out of the way, here's another update to that Smarty Pants thing I put on hold to deal with that crap.  I can finally get back to working on this monster of a comic and getting it out of the way.  Here's a couple more panels for it:



Coming along...okay, I guess.  It's progress, at least.  The best I can do with life being the way it is, anyway.  
Man, thinking about recent events, much less writing about them...if I didn't quit drinking for good, I could probably use a shot or two.

Or three.  Or four or five.

Thanks to everyone for being patient with all of this without pestering me about it.

Which is more than I can say for SOME people.