Making a journal to excuse an incredibly unprofessional way of handling a private commission is a really bad way to respond to something and shows no will to improve something.

And the fact that Dobson is labelling this under trolling and a scam is also not surprising to me. Remember, these people could have very well commissioned something awful like fetish art or something hateful but they chose Samus instead to actually review how he does his work and it sheds a lot.

The whole “well they didn’t see how well I catered to my other customers” does not excuse the fact that this is not a good way to do private commission due to the following

bearing very little communication between a customer who has invested their money into you

taking that for granted and wasting a good amount of time

not making changes to the customer’s demand (even though they are paying you for this)

blatant plagiarism

I could go on and on, but those who have invested their money into this have already put in their words on this.

And of course, I will always get “but how will this help new artists?” Well, I’m a firm believer of making mistakes being a good way to learn and, even better, observing other’s mistakes and learning from them to save yourself some trouble. When you’re catering to someone who has invested money into you, it is important to do the best to satisfy them,

And this isn’t a very easy thing for most people, you might deal with someone who can be an ass to you or doesn’t communicate well with you. Of course, you have the right to deny working for some people, but when you do work for them, showing competence and commitment will reward the both of you.

Fortunately, artists-beware is where these issues are discussed about along with warnings about both customers and caterers and can really save yourself from getting into huge trouble.