𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮 @veru@gameliberty.club

@beardalaxy Also an artist who does that type of artwork, takes commissions, and SPEAKS ENGLISH LOL

Because I follow a good bunch of SFW shota and otokonoko artists from Japan but the Western ones are all primarily doing coom content. The language barrier is too brutal to commission the JP artists.

@beardalaxy I mostly get artists off Twitter and most will not do it this way because both sides can have bad people, like commissioners who don't pay the remaining balance after the commission is done. Plenty of threads warning people about that and also those who also ask for sketches and cut off all communication and run away with them to bring to another artist, which is just bizarre to me personally. lol

That is probably my issue: Getting artists off a site that doesn't have the most stable people using it. I also ran into an issue with an artist on Minds, too.

Unfortunately for me and my characters, it's harder to find people who will draw them without sifting through a bunch of NSFW and why I tend to stick to 1-3 known artists I know since years ago. I'm prone to addiction, so I have cut off most NSFW content entirely and was also a reason why I had to get off Baraag, though I'm doing better and have more control now so I may be able to return someday just to post art on there. Trying to find an artist who draws shota or femboys who isn't primarily doing porn is like a needle in a haystack imo. My best solution was really to just do it myself at this point. I don't have issues with people who make that type of content but I know myself and I really should try to limit my exposure to it.

After being burned so many times, I really started to question why I was paying other people if I actually really like my own drawing style and should work on it instead.

@matana

I don't even understand how retarded the store owner has to be to think that someone in a literal war zone could even ship out an order. There was no way that shit was going to be able to ship even if finished. I felt I would be scammed. This all happened during last year as the war broke out.

And some irony is that I had already been working with someone else prior on getting the horns, tail, an outfit and two wigs made. That was 7 months prior and I didn't see where the cosplay store was located and found out two weeks later when they refunded me because the artist was in Ukraine and she had to close down their business to leave the country. A completely reasonable and understandable situation on why they had to cancel my order. At least I had sent the money right before the war started so she still hadn't made anything with it yet.

So I figured it's best to get someone within the USA because of what was happening in Europe. Only for this fuckwit to send my order back out into the war zone. 🫠

@matana Do you mean for the cosplay? Yes, it had a deadline of 6 months and the cosplay store failed to communicate at all when I kept pressing on close to the deadline. When I started the dispute, they tried to appeal to emotion and admitted they out sourced the work overseas to fucking Ukraine of all places when it was literally a war zone. The pictures they sent of the horns were all in pieces, unpainted, and not even put together yet despite the deadline coming in like a week. They didn't show the tail either. Extremely irresponsible and dishonest. They also chose to refund me after their sob story when I stated I will not give them a 5 star review even if they finished it because the terrible communication and being dishonest were the orders are being made didn't warrant a 5 star at all. If they're bad at running the store, then people should know instead of sweeping it under the rug trying to lure in more customers to get screwed.
This was a store that claims to run in the USA. It's no wonder all their orders are late if they are shipping it from overseas while claiming to be American.

I only give people that long to complete anything because that's when the Buyer Protection runs out as almost all of them only do Paypal. I won't let it go over 6 months unless I've worked multiple times with the person before but most of my commission work should definitely not take months to complete. I typically only get single full bodies. The art guy just completely dropped the ball on being responsible. He has stated multiple times that the commission will be "done this month" then fucks off completely and comes back with another sob story. lol
Worst part is I needed this shit done at least a year ago to use for my stream and YT channel and he knows this, too.