Vaenny
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大事な話/I need to talk about this
🕑 Added 2024-06-28 01:52:17 +0000 UTCFrom this point on, I will only accept request via Pixiv. Outside requests will be immediately rejected. As for the reason:
A few months ago (in March), I was commissioned to make a 30-page doujin. Usually, I only make 4-8 pages of doujin cuz it would only take a week to make and I could focus on my other projects. But this commission promised to pay for all 30 pages and then some. When I finished the doujin, the requester asked for 5 more pages because there weren't enough positions. Being the guy I was, I drew 5 more pages. And so I completed the request in 2 months and patiently waited for the payment.
And waited.
And waited.
And I'm still waiting.
A few weeks after I finished that commission, someone else requested a 25-page doujin. Again, this commission promised to pay for all 25 pages and then some. Then after 2 months, I finished that doujin. All I had to do was wait for the payment. So I waited.
And I'm still waiting.
Now, I don't know what the circumstances were as to why they couldn't pay. Maybe their account got deactivated or was just really busy with their job. The thing is: I wasn't disappointed that I didn't get the payment (well, maybe partially). I was more disappointed that I spent 4 months in total drawing 2 long-ass doujins that I could've spent doing other projects. Heck, while I was doing the commissions, I could only do one project on the side. I wasted so much time drawing something that I didn't even get paid for.
So I hope you understand why I don't wanna do outside commissions anymore. I don't wanna be taken advantage of because I'm capable of doing stuff faster than others. I already had enough experience being an outsource in-between animator to know it's not worth wasting my time drawing for an entire day- no- entire months and getting paid like... uh... poopy.
So if you want to request for doujins or animations, please do it here on Pixiv instead. I will no longer use Twitter (or X, still dunno why they renamed it to a pron site) or discord for commissions. I wanna see lewd doujins just as much as everyone else, but at least respect the work and time that I dedicate to those.
Let's end it on a positive note: my manga, pink letter playlist, has enough chapters for a full volume! The challenge is completing the actual pages (cuz it's mostley storyboards and rough sketches for now), but as long as I don't get any of those lon-ass commissions, I might be able to finish all the chapters by the end of the year. THICC THIGHS SAVE LIVES!!!
Comments
Vaenny
Yeah, I made a post about that a few months ago as well. I got f*kked up because of it too, with some of my posts getting deleted. No one to blame but regional differences, I guess...
Max Dankly
While I understand the sentiment, the issue with pixiv is that westerners cannot request r-18 works
Vaenny
As much as I want to, I'm just too much of a goody-two-shoes to directly ask that. Plus, I don't really do it for the money. But wasting 4 months to draw 30-40 page doujins when I could've done the shinmai maou vol. 8 adaptation is just... you know?
chiaki
I think you should ask for upfront payment for a large order ><
