So I know there was a blacklist thread on here at some point, but I wanted to start a different thread since I don't want to start problems and instead just get some feedback and opinions.
Long story short, a year ago today (May 2021) I paid a fairly well known painter to paint a sculpt I had. They said their schedule was at the end of August (2021) and to send over the head. There were some issues with shipping so it didn't get to the artist until the end of August, but I accept the blame for that and didn't want to rush them because of that. Three months later (November 2021) I was just curious to see if there were any updates and they said they were working on it and would show me later. Three more months (February 2022) and I hadn't heard anything so I again asked for updates and just got the same response: "i am working on it~i will show you later". Now it's another three months and again I haven't heard a peep.
That in mind, how do people think I should proceed? I'm not under the impression that they just took my money, but they've had the sculpt for 9 months at this point and I have no evidence that they've even started work on it while they've started and updated a number of other projects.
Long story short, a year ago today (May 2021) I paid a fairly well known painter to paint a sculpt I had. They said their schedule was at the end of August (2021) and to send over the head. There were some issues with shipping so it didn't get to the artist until the end of August, but I accept the blame for that and didn't want to rush them because of that. Three months later (November 2021) I was just curious to see if there were any updates and they said they were working on it and would show me later. Three more months (February 2022) and I hadn't heard anything so I again asked for updates and just got the same response: "i am working on it~i will show you later". Now it's another three months and again I haven't heard a peep.
That in mind, how do people think I should proceed? I'm not under the impression that they just took my money, but they've had the sculpt for 9 months at this point and I have no evidence that they've even started work on it while they've started and updated a number of other projects.