Ever had a customer or client who was absolute ass to deal with?

Tell me about it!

Also if you want to despair... there are plenty of awful clients out there

I'm lucky I never truly had any shitty customers... I guess the worst experience I had yet was someone bailing on me bc another artist whom they were friends with and who hated my guts told them I'd steal their money or smth... so they asked for a refund, which I gave them asap. They got 2 sketches I did during the sketch process for free due to commission cancellation :T good for them, I guess.

Another time I had a commissioner who first wanted a refsheet, then changed their mind to just an illustration mid-proccess when they decided they didn't like the concepts I presented (mind you, I was working from description alone, the commissioner didn't give me any existing artworks of the character).

All in all more of an annoyance than hell, but yeah. Like I said. I got lucky so far.
But it is pretty harrowing when your commissioner keeps changing their mind on what they want. I wished all commissioners wer capable of holding on to a vision.

I also work at the Farmer's Market every Saturday, and one time when I was beinga stand-in for another vendor at another market I had an old couple get super upset with me bc I didn't have a dairy product they had ordered the previous week bc the boss didn't pack enough of that product. I appologized for the inconvenience and they continued to chew me out for like 5 minutes and I was THIS close to snapping into their faces and tell them to GTFO. I AM SORRY, OKAY??? Not my fault, stop using me as your vent piece to air out our anger, you entitled pieces >:T
They demanded I call my boss then and to have her deliver another oen of the product later when she was picking up the leftover produce, which I did. The lady then came around at pick-up time again and I swear she was deathglaring me bc it took like 15 minutes before my boss arrived.

The nerve of some people, man.