>>55537080>Though speaking of illustrations, have any of you ever gotten any for your own works? Be it by your own hand or through commission/request?Never commissioned art for a fic, but I commissioned a bunch for my VN.
One artist turned in one image that was so hopelessly awful that I couldn't think of anything to say to improve it beyond "start over and learn to draw before offering to do it for money" so I just said nothing and never messaged the guy again. (I had already paid him anyway; this image has never seen the light of day)
One artist repeatedly said he would get work done in like a week or two, but would usually take a month or more.
One artist took my request and disappeared before drawing anything (I hadn't paid him yet either) and then came back almost a year later and drew about 3/4 of what I needed, before disappearing once again. He was having IRL issues, which is obviously not his fault, but it would have been nice if he'd told me directly, "sorry, I'm no longer free to draw the thing I said I'd draw" instead of leaving me completely in the dark.
One artist drew two pics and then vanished without explanation for several months; then came back and drew art for the scene that the previous artist was going to work on.
One artist was fine, but the quality was a little inconsistent and I kept having to make fairly significant edits to make it look the way I wanted.
I spent about a year working with these people and it caused me an absolutely inordinate amount of stress, and I'm not normally an easily stressed person.