My CREEPIEST Commission Story | Art + Storytime

How to break into the comics industry: DON'T DO THIS.

[creativehorsequeen]

"spicy sleepovers" "two person push ups" "horizontal tango" "opening the gates of Mordor" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love these phrases.

[AliciaMajo]

That's so weird, I had a similar experience when I was like 13 or 14, and I was contacted on Deviantart to draw SPICY MLP ART. But I told him I was a minor and uncomfortable drawing that, he apologized profusely.

[themushroommonarch]

I remember my first commission. It was in 7th grade and I was asked for "A girl riding tentacles." The thing is I didn't take it sexually, more in how one would ride a dragon through the sky. So that's what I drew, a girl riding on top of tentacles.

[EchoJ]

Using OSHA violations as material for a NSFW Patreon tier is hilarious 😂😂😂

Well done, Star. Well done😌

[poseidons_child.]

The ace flag slowly showing up with a speed paint in the background just described my entire life.

[megthefrostdragon]

There are some real creeps out there... I don't mind the fact that he wanted to commission NSFW art, you do you my guy, but e-mailing a HIGH SCHOOLER, a LITERAL LEGAL CHILD to do it- yeah, huge red flag.

[Kitthecatgod]

‘I like think that maybe, just maybe she hunted him down for sports.’ LMFAO

[evee]

Finally I found another artist who started art classes in high school and wasn't as good as the other kids!!! I started taking art seriously in high school and only did it for fun everyday and all day before then! I wasn't as good as everyone else. I hated acrylics and water color and didn't get my art posted outside the art room often and never read it put in the cases around the school! Heck I couldn't even draw humans and only drew animals so my teacher wasn't too fond of my art skills

[minanathans]

I cannot fathom why a grown adult- knowing that he would be needing nsfw artwork for his comic- would seek out an artist that he knew would be in _high school._ Actually, come to think of it, I'm also kind of surprised the teacher just passed that contact on to a student without (I assume?) looking into him at all. Like, finding opportunities for your students is great, but you NEED to know who you're sending those kids towards, and exactly what's going to be asked of them. This was definitely a strange and uncomfortable situation, but it sounds like it had the potential to go a lot worse.

[DrawingFreakshow]

Ngl I feel like those Osha violations is scarier than normal NSFW

Edit:woah never had a comment blow up before thanks!

[wanderingdreams]

I can't even imagine the thought process you go through to get to "ah yes, I will cold-email high school students"

[rinatlas-bane]

You weren't petty for being happy to excel where "artistes" struggled. When you said your art was on display, I literally said aloud, "About time!" People deserve recognition for their hard work they put into obtaining skills. Especially children. I'm glad your teacher turned out to be pretty rad.

[synthlifestudios]

As a safety professional I love the NOT SAFE FOR WORK idea. That's awesome twist on expectations.

[Blottomann]

"Naughty nighttime shenanigans" I'm gonna start using that phrase💀💀☠️

[Dislexyk]

The ace flag slowly appearing with a comic speedraw in the background is just perfect

[bookvee]

Is it weird that I learn more by watching you draw than I do from the huge shelf of books I own?

[MadameSomnambule]

I love the joke that NSFW = OSHA violations, it's such a clever double entendre/bait-and-switch thing. In fact, it's my favorite bait-and-switch joke alongside the booby bird and tit birds. XD

[ARUCARDFTEPES]

As someone who works in an environment where "riding a pallet jack is grounds for immediate termination", the OSHA violation opening is hilariously brilliant.

[DrDolan]

Can't blame you for not feeling comfortable

The bone zone has a lot of skeletons. Too spooky

[HeathenDoodles]

I am glad that your teacher had your back. I went to a half-day trade school for digital art during my junior and senior years of highschool. In my senior year I was branching into making websites (mostly using DreamWeaver, this was when it was owned by microsoft, just before adobe bought it) and so when a local history group reached out wanting a website designed, she came to me asking if I would like the project.

Of course I had the same reaction, was excited that this could be my "big break" and began diligently working on a website for these people. Unfortunately they began to get very irate at its simplicity and that I wasn't fully coding the site to the degree they wanted, and had to explain that while I did have basic html knowledge, that this was an ART project and I had originally just been asked to design the layout, buttons, graphics, etc for the site.

Well I went down the rabbit hole of making fully functional websites (mind you this was in like, 2004 and there were not a lot of options for slapping a site together like there are now) and trying to do all this work for them despite the fact that I was a highschool art student and they were getting all this for /free/ .

Well, it was towards the end of the school year. I got graded on the project despite the fact that I was still working with these history group folks to get their page functional. They more or less began to bully me about it and I decided right then and there to just... cut off ties. Maybe I could have handled it better, but I was 18 and had had enough. I deleted my work from their website host and stopped responding to them. When my teacher asked about it I just deflected and said I wasn't done yet.

About a month after I graduated the teacher called me at home about the project saying that they had been reaching out to her since I was non-responsive. I told her flat out that I already got graded for that project, and was not dealing with it any longer. If they wanted to pay me for my work I'd send the existing files over to them (we were each allowed to take home a thumb drive with our school projects) but otherwise they should seek out a professional web designer. She asked if I'd send the files to her directly - I said no. She was very livid with that answer.

I later found out that she got paid for another student's restaurant menu design that a local diner had commissioned, and wonder if perhaps she had accepted money for my project without me knowing, which is why she was so determined to get the files.