I dunno, I've never given or received one so can't really comment.
I suppose "tight arsed pikey" comes to mind.

Actually, on thinking about it I've been commissioned to do loads of drawings for other people to give to relatives, does that count?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 18:11, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

Yep that counts
Drawings of them by any chance?
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 18:16, Reply)

Cats, dogs, pug-ugly children...
The oddest commission one was probably a drawing of a truck someone's Dad used to drive.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 18:18, Reply)

If you have the talent why not cash in on it?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 18:19, Reply)

I've been thinking about getting back into it.
The last commission I took was about ten years ago. It's getting the time to do it that's the problem, but back in the 90's I'd have a couple of commissions a month to do, sometimes more.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 18:21, Reply)