I have only bought one commission in my life, but from now i'll probably be buying them regulary. Do you have any advices or guide what to look at when ordering stuff? The prices seem all over the place, from 20$-100$. Sometimes people charge high amounts of money for low quality, sometimes low amounts for high quality, sometimes the high quality costs a lot and low quality costs a little. How do i know when its a scam? What should i look at?

defiler said:
I have only bought one commission in my life, but from now i'll probably be buying them regulary. Do you have any advices or guide what to look at when ordering stuff? The prices seem all over the place, from 20$-100$. Sometimes people charge high amounts of money for low quality, sometimes low amounts for high quality, sometimes the high quality costs a lot and low quality costs a little. How do i know when its a scam? What should i look at?

Depends what you want. Scammers are generally pretty obvious, honestly, just saucenao/tineye their images.

By the varying quality, are you referring to the level of completion?

votp said:
Depends what you want. Scammers are generally pretty obvious, honestly, just saucenao/tineye their images.

By the varying quality, are you referring to the level of completion?

I mean overall drawing. How good the artstyle and anatomy looks for example. Some people on top of normal drawings also sell lineart and sketches and those also have their own prices.

As a rule of thumb check their galleries. Make sure there are no warning comments posted on their images. Make sure the images in the gallery are actually theirs, not someone else's.

Past that ... the price is fair if you are willing to pay that much for the level of quality you can see in their gallery.

calydor said:
As a rule of thumb check their galleries. Make sure there are no warning comments posted on their images. Make sure the images in the gallery are actually theirs, not someone else's.

Don't some sites allow the uploader to delete or hide comments? Makes warning comments not always guaranteed

platform wise, i had no problems with furaffinity.
but in twitter, it's more apparent. i had experiences of being randomly followed while being small account, it's mostly bunch of random bot scams with generic "graphic designer + vtuber" bio and inconsistent media tab of extremely compressed jpeg furry and anime art - either stolen or poorly drawn themselves - saying "#Thank you for commissioning me 😍" it's highly recommended to avoid and block them.

generally, try to follow artists you love, there can be a pipeline of new artists being retweeted and their availability of commissions. maybe explore through their following list and discover new artists as well.