Artists Hirings Concerns

chowchow2012 • 6 May 2014 at 7:05 PM

Hi I was just reading the "now hiring: artists" page and I was wondering about a few things.

First concern:
"We use PayPal for payment. 100% payment is sent upon delivery by the agreed upon deadline."

As an active user on deviantart, recently some users had trouble when they used paypal because they received chargebacks. This was the case for exchanging money for art of course.

Apparently if you commission a piece of art from someone it doesn't exactly count as a object lol. Basically, it doesn't count as "proof" since there's nothing such as a shipping address, or "receipt". This way it is possible to receive a chargeback even though you have completed the artwork.

This way artists who will work for this site have no way of protecting themselves unless their demands are met as well.

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Second Concern:
"Your artwork must match Egg Cave's existing art style" I find this statement a bit ambiguous as eggcave honestly has a variety of styles. Each artist is of course entitled their own artistic freedom and also draws differently then any other artist. But even with that said all the art's style on eggcave looks "different" (semi-inconsistent) from each other.

Per say: The abet and the Borro. They both use cell shading but the style that they were drawn is different.

The Abet's lines are thinner and also contains more "shine" to it than the borro. Both of these creatures where well done but I am confused about what style an artist should try to match.

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Thank you for taking your time to look through this! 😊