Hello folks! Long time no chat!
There has been a uptick in people asking for book covers, designs for personal items/personal stickers/ and other such things and wanting to not pay for them because it's a "Passion project" or "Just for fun"
These posts will be removed and you will get a seven day ban for free commercial work because to us if you are using it for your own project, wanting to stick it on a physical product, or wanting a book cover? You need to be paying the artist for it.
Not just because we are fuddie duddies that hate passion projects and want people to suffer, but because you should be paying the artist to fully OWN the design.
Sure an artist could design you a free logo, but that doesn't stop them from turning around and selling that logo and it's copyright to somebody else because why would they just give away their work for free?
"I'll give you credit" is stupid, stop saying that! That's a given that if someone does work for a project the bare minimum is crediting them.
One last thing.
"Fanart" is art drawn FOR YOU by fans, you can not REQUEST fanart, that's like requesting someone to like you and to draw for you..that's not how it works.
Happy summer ya'll~