If you have favourite Japanese artists on services such as Pixiv, then the language barrier may prevent you from outright enquiring whether an artist is taking a commission. This is where Skeb.jp comes in.
Pixiv Request Service
In an email distributed to all Pixiv members last month, it was announced that Japan’s largest artwork community would be introducing a ‘Requests’ functionality for all users. Its name should already imply what the service sets out to do. The system allows any artist on the service to begin accepting paid requests from the community, and should they like a concept, accept it, and produce it within a 60-day deadline.
As we have covered on The Otaku’s Study before, there are a few active artwork commissioning sites on the Japanese market which welcome international requesters. One such example is SKEB, which makes use of the DeepL artificial intelligence translation service to allow anyone with a credit card/debit card to commission the thousands of artists on their service. There is also a range of options in the English-language market, from DeviantArt and FurAffinity, to services which provide you with YCH (Your Character Here) artwork to bid for