Beware for CulpeoWolf/Seanna Downey/Micheala
So I’ve had a pretty bad experience with an artist I commissioned about six months ago. I feel like a beware is needed at this point.
So to start from the beginning, I had found her on Facebook and sent her a friend request. I commissioned her maybe 3 times and didn’t have an issue with any of those commissions, she even streamed them for me and got them done very quickly. When I like an artist I tend to commission them multiple times.
The first commission I had issues with was a reference sheet for one of my characters. She said it would be $45, but I knew she was struggling with money, so I sent her $60 as an extra tip.
http://imgur.com/uSw7KUE
(You can also see in that screen shot, she told me to send as friends and family so it wouldn’t charge ME a fee. Both she and I knew very well it was the other way around, but she didn’t want to pay the fee or worry about me back charging. At this time I didn’t mention anything about it, considering I had commissioned her a few times and things went smoothly. Unfortunately this did screw me over in the end.)
On this commission, she rushed it and made many careless errors. This isn’t the main point of my beware but I also wanted to throw it in, that when she doesn’t feel like doing something and you ask for updates, she has no shame in rushing it and making careless errors. I had messaged her a few times asking her if she would stream it, which she would reply “Yes, I’ll do it tonight”, and never did. So I “pestered” her too much, leading to her making careless errors in my ref sheet, as seen here.
http://imgur.com/ndycukD
Now the second commission I had issues with, one that is still ongoing, and she owes me either the art or money. I commissioned her back in December for a bust shot.
http://imgur.com/7DYGWu9
I was expecting this one to also be run smoothly, but that wasn’t the case. I asked for updates occasionally, but never pestered her because she was having some medical trouble for a bit there and was even in the hospital.
http://imgur.com/Zh09xQ5
Finally about a few weeks ago I decided to ask her for a refund, as I had seen her working on other personal art and taking more commissions and finishing them up quickly. (Will show all of these in screenshots as well shortly.) Her response to me asking for a refund was trying to guilt trip me, basically saying she was going to kill herself. I haven’t messaged her again since, and I still haven’t got a refund. She is also taking more commissions and finishing them with a quick turn around time, for people she likes, such as her “art-senpai”.
http://imgur.com/WwP42zh
Here are the other screen shots I have, the first ones being that she begs for money constantly and asks for donations, but yet she buys commissions, adopts, even pay to use bases. (She also has MULTIPLE pets in the house, which worries me at times, because they do not have air conditioning in the house and can apparently barely afford to take care of themselves, let alone multiple animals.)
http://imgur.com/u1C05Q2
http://imgur.com/ajhCwXQ
The next screen shot shows her taking more commissions and saying they will be finished in a few days. I have seen her finish multiples of these, and one as recently as yesterday for her “art senpai”, to which the customer replied, “Wow you had such a fast turn around time!” Yeah, well, here I am six months later.
http://imgur.com/4JNhtCt
And the final screen shot I have to show is her bad behavior. She even admits to not following her queue in order of who paid first, but if the design is too “complex” (aka if she likes you/your character enough to do it). She also says you can “bitch at her for a refund, but NEVER talk to me again”, showing her unwillingness to take accountability for her actions and accept that she makes mistakes.
http://imgur.com/U4lOLcv
Had the same experience almost down to the dot.
