One of the things that seems to crowd the art-based lolcows out of the market now is indeed the globalization of furry art. $150 to a decent artist who might put you off for months due to cirrhosis of the soul, or something.... Or half that for next-day good digital art from someone in Russia/Asia/South America.
I'm still waiting for art from someone I paid like... christ almost half a year ago at this point.
It's even listed as "completed" in their trello but it's just the sketch.
Yup, though I've seen less than decent charge as much as professional for "meh" art, and still run into one of these following problems resulting in not completing their work
1. "guyz i'm feeling depressed everyone hates me, i hate everything and therefor plz give me an extra 4 months to just complete a sketch"
2. "guyz i realized that trying to survive on my subpar art is not paying my billz and now we have 'no food in the fridge'(a line i've seen way too often in journal entries)
3. "guyz i just need moar money so i'm going to do different commissions in a stream and just ignore my backlog"
4. "guyz my family hates me so i run away no i have no moeny and no job"
But on a side note, I hate it when artists are just so irresponsible with their money that they resort to begging like that and it pisses me off even more when they have pets, their own lack of responsibility are putting actual animals at risk
"but muh responsibility is a social construct"
But yeah, I also find it funny that many furries have the weird obsession with japan and its kemono shit, when in reality none of these white bread burgers who have hardly worked a day in their lives would survive a week in Japan's culture of hardwork with little payoff
that's something many weaboos found out that hard way when they attempted to work in Japan