Interesting read. Even given all that, I think I may be interested one day.  I'll need to save up for a bit in order to afford that type of a commission though.  I understand why you say no redraws, but does that mean no tweaks on pics either?  It would be uncool to lay down the cash for a drawing and not be happy with it.  Not saying that would happen, I'm just concerned about that possibility.  Curious if you've got any commission samples on your page?

I don't tweak the images either, unless extra $ is paid. I've been down that road several times on educational cartoons and interoffice headers and decorative forms. It's massively time consuming, and the requested tweaking never ends.

I have zero commission samples in the gallery. All my commissions have been non fem muscle, and I stopped doing them over 10 years ago.

I can understand your concern for paying out a lot of money and not being happy with the result. Sadly I've been on the opposite side of barricades where I've done literately hundreds of dollars in billable work and gotten exactly nothing, as the client, at the last possible moment, decided he/she didn't want the image. I've probably lost close to $1,500.00 on such jobs. As a result I'm not inclined to take on more commissions. I'd rather loose money on my own projects then on the project of someone else.

Rex pretty much has my thoughts.

I get paid upfront, and I take time. I don't tweak images and I don't like to be told what to draw beyond the basic concept. Everyone I've done a commission for, they go in blind, not knowing the shape of what they'll get. And every time they're happy (to my knowledge). It's because I probably put more thought into the commission than the person asking. And because I'm the fucking artist and I've been hired for that reason, not because I'm a puppet.

Thankfully, not only has everyone who's paid for my work put up with me taking forever, but they've liked them and not fucked me around once. Rex, it seems, has been fucked around, so he's a lot more pissed off about it, where as I'm a lot more polite.

But my thoughts are pretty much the same on the work ethic.

The other problem I have, which I'm sure Rex and I share, is that I can't be arsed to draw masturbatory aids for people. I'm sure I'd be raking in the cash if all I drew were big muscle women growing bigger and getting naked. But I have little time or desire for that.

Basically, what I've discovered is that if someone pays for my work, they'll have no end of hassle. I'll be slow and demanding. I'm a complete hassle to work with. But - and this is my redeeming feature - I'll do the best I can at the time. Every one of my commissions I've done, every one I planned to do, my best work that I could do.

Rex and I are a lot alike, it's just Rex doesn't have his thumb up his ass. Good for him.

Rex,
Sorry there was not much feedback on the Ms Fantasy story.  I remember it as your 'Burn-out' story. (I think the last one you did for LH-ART right?) Personally I thought it was funny, well drawn and interesting in the concept of the transformation being a painful one to go through.  Anyway, just a belated thankyou and that I don't want you to think it was an "albatross about my neck" sort of thing.  I was losing money already on the printed books by that time.  Take Care.
Larry