How to do Art Commissions? Let’s start out with getting some important stuff out of the way when you Commission an artist. 1, Please have your photo/design ready and please do not shade it or if you do shade it, make this shading minimal. It makes it really difficult to color pick and pay attention to details and the artist may sometimes mistake shading for actual markings on your portrait that they think they need to draw. 2. Find the artists who take art commission job. Do your best to describe what the painting you are after. Please specify them while working out your order, like if your portrait to be in realistic style or artistic style and you want the artist to use oil, pastel, acrylic or do they have to remove any subjects on the background. Or, if they have special markings are an accessory that you really want them to take note of. It’s a lot easier to just state it before the artist starts instead of having them change things after they’ve ...