I commissioned a lot of artists (more than 50) and some of them didn't follow a commission process. These artists have asked for an upfront payment before sending the finished version of the image, and without doing any kind of on-going confirmation during the drawing process.
I won't commission this kind of artists anymore in the future, because I have no guaranty that the drawing will take into account the requirements of the commission. This has happened before, unfortunately.
Note: I'll use, below, client for the commissioner and artist for the commissioned artist.
For me, the perfect commission process would be:
The client sends a no