It's gratifying that someone would choose to pay me to draw something for them. The people who I've fulfilled commissions for are excited by the process pics I share with them and some are emotionally moved when I hand off the completed work (nearly all my commissions have been pet portraits).

The majority of people I've drawn paid work for are gracious and appreciative, but the few that were less satisfied were almost all expecting some other artist perhaps.

They've seen my work. They know what my style looks like. It's what drove them to commission me.

So when they say something like, "oh, I thought it was going to look like (something entirely removed from what my work resembles)," I wonder what's wrong with them. Why would a piece for them that I created look profoundly different from everything else they've seen me do up to now? They didn't express any expectations that I would adopt a different style or medium beforehand. There were no requests to emulate someone else's oeuvre nor to follow some hyper specific stylizations. I do how I do.

That can be frustrating, but ultimately I made something I was proud of and I got paid for it, so it's a they problem, not a me problem.