Alright, my friend asked me for this favor, and that was to draw an anime picture of his character, his RP character and my character having a picnic together. Sounds easy enough right? Wrong. Unfortunately for him, I started college two weeks later after a frantic run of getting my things together for my Fall semester.

I did draw the fan-art, but I deemed it "not good enough" and promised I'd make a better one. However, things took a turn for the worst. I had the money to go to classes but not the funds to get the books. As a result I was often a week or so behind my peers and struggled to catch up. I'm now fully caught up because I have the books I need, but real life situation has made me alittle.... "down in the dumps" to finish my drawing.

My friend understood that it wasn't guaranteed or that he agreed to have no deadline for it. I'm exhausted as it is, dealing with the fact that my lover has been gone for 9 months now (I feel like a military wife, but not married and he's not in the military), the fact that I am still unemployed, and the increase in arguments and fights I have with my parents.

After all these pressures wearing me down, I usually come home to take a nap and to play a game, catch up on homework or hang out with my grandmother. Truthfully, I've lost interest in continuing my drawing and probably won't pick it up again until October with the way things are going. But my friend insists on texting me almost daily asking me for it. He says he doesn't want to be a pest, but that's exactly what he is doing. He's not paying me for the drawing, he didn't even give me a deadline for it. But he is acting like it's the end of the world if I don't give him that drawing.

I've resorted to ignoring his texts, and working on it little by little to perfect it, but the way he was acting, really irked me and put me off drawing it. I don't have the heart to tell him that I won't do it. I can already imagine his disappointed face, but if he keeps on persisting -- then I'll have no choice but to tell him I am not going to finish it. This is really irritating to me. I may be unemployed but I am a student full-time with homework to finish, he's just someone with a 5 hour a week job at Burger King =/ I feel like if he has all this time, why not ask someone else?

Also, keep in mind that he never did anything for me either, so him acting like he deserves this drawing is aggravating.

Hmm. That sounds like an extreme case of me and all my friends. Its a small school, so everyone knows me and my art, and I'm too nice and can't say "No, I'm lazy." So I end up just hoping people forget I said I would.

Have you simply told him to stop asking you for it, and that you'll get it done when you have the time?

WEll I really think that you need to tell him that you don't have a lot of time right now and kind of tell him how you feel about him pestering you for it while you have so much going on.
ANd if he continues "well i'm not trying to be a pest"
just be honest and be like "well regardless of what you say you are trying to do, you are being a pest."

That's kind of hard to do when your friend is a drama king and gets depressed easily. But I'll try to be upfront about it with him.

That's why I never agree to draw/write/create anything for anyone. If at some point I stop having the time or feeling like I want to do it, what do I tell them? I create on my own terms, and that's final.

You need to talk to him about it. Make him understand whats going on in your life, and that if you don't get it done; then thats how it goes. He did get a finished copy, even if its not what you consider good. Make him understand that pestering you about it isn't going to make anything go any faster, even though he says he's not trying to.

Tell him if he ever wants it to keep his mouth shut, to trust you, and eventually he'll get it.

If theres one thing that KILLS my mood to draw it's someone telling me to draw when I already am, or if I'm not in the mood. If I'm not in the mood, I won't draw just because it'll be a waste of time. Nothing will come out right, because I'm not actally trying. If I'm already drawing I get frustrated when someone hovers because now it's like they're rushing me even if they aren't.

Be upfront and honest. If he wants to be dramatic then let him. Who really cares? I mean you have to worry about yourself more and make time for yourself and doing your school work. You can also tell him to go find someone else to draw it if he's going to keep bugging you about it.