Heyo! I wasn't intending to post a PSA at first but matters have forced my hand, and I find it now prudent to let the community know how unwise it may be to work with Quillcoil. I left a comment on her journal and was blocked in turn. As someone who Quillcoil actually owes art to, this is very unprofessional and concerning and I felt I now needed to make a PSA to let others know.
The artist in question: Quillcoil (DA) (Patreon) (Twitter) (Ko-fi) / Shey (TH)
In July 2017 I ordered a chibi commission and two customs:
I've contacted her a few times in the intervening period, and eventually got the chibi in 2018:
april 2018 - dragon chibi received + dragon chibi in gallery
It is now August 2020 and today, Quillcoil posted this status, which has since been deleted:
https://www.deviantart.com/quillcoil/journal/Do-Not-Note-Me-853152907 (screenshot)
I posted two (admittedly) irate comments owing to the frustration of my own situation as a customer who has been owed work for 3 years now and have little to no updates, and was blocked:
As a related aside, a fellow commissioner awaiting art since about 2015 posted a beware on this artist in 2018:
As you can see, Quillcoil has owed a lot of people artwork, and today, blocked one of the customers. The artist does not have a public work list, and their work ethic and communication concerning owed artworks is questionable and concerning. I recommend that people do not commission this artist and to be wary of transactions with them.
The artist left an indirect response to the commenters on the journal nearly an hour later with their reasoning for their lack of communication and poor work ethic, as can be seen in this screenshot:
Thanks be to Vespisia, who rewrote this nicely and took my rage out of it! Chuus ❤ ❤ ❤
To anyone else Quillcoil owes art to:
zim is making a public list of the artwork owed by Quillcoil, please contact them if you'd like to be added to the list!
I MADE A SURVEY!!
New species! Avaxi!
So since it seems to be in fashion now, I made a new species for myself too!
They're called Avaxi! With Teivi as the mascot!
AvaxiA stone-bodied (not literally) race of proud warrior race guys, if by proud you mean vain. Sometimes rumored to have stone hearts too, but don't listen to those rumors, some people are just mean. Can be pretty stone-headed, though!
REGULAR TRAITS
SPECIAL TRAITS
Mineral – organic materials (ivory, bone, amber, coal), fictional materials (mithril, adamantium, kryptonite, materia, octitron, chronitron, etc)
Magic Item – has consumed a magic item, causes runes and/or markings on body or horns/tail/satelles, may have floating runes, may have elemental “type”
Superpower – massive three-stage satelles, with the last stage usable as weapons
Variation – special varieties of avaxi, that happen when avaxi souls choose to possess nonstandard object(s)
Leaving it in stash cos it is HELLA LONG LOL
Obviously I had tons of fun on the info sheet, worked on it for a week lolol I'll work on releasing actual adopts . . . eventually? But for now, hope you like them!
Honestly amused now
2nd Nov 2015
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4 June 2015
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19th June
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20th June
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22nd June
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~12th July
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