My god.......Im Exactly the same and face the same Problem.....
BROTHER!

hehe its he picky part that murders me. I've gotten way too spoiled paying 100+ bucks on those super popular artists like Inoby and stuff XD

Rofl I have the worse luck commissioning people like them.
Its either i dont have the money and im quick, or I have the money and Im too slow. A few popular artists I REALLY wanted to commission fill up in SECONDS. I even had my info ready and was stalking the page for an hour.
Some people just want it more then me

ugh i know the feeling XD

lol i know this feeling all too well, most have like a two month+ waitlist and some are beyond overbooked >.< it's like winning the lottery when you find one

I have an artist I'll be commissioning soon. He's great. Love his stuff.

ooo nice who is the artist?

Your mom. Oooooooooooooooooh

Boneitis.

git gud

Brah you wanna 1v1 me?

I know how this is but definitely not the worst of problems to have.

I'm personally chasing an artist across 4-5 websites to catch when they open and may have to have someone else snag me a slot due to work. They don't use FA anymore.

It definetly is a pleasent problem to have XD

It's the burden we all bear for buying smut we're not going to regret later.

I'm in the exact same situation.

I miss being able to commission an artist directly and have some genuine engagement with them. With the commercialized turn the fandom has taken, it's become entirely depersonalized.

The way I read it is that many artists nowadays are doing what they do almost exclusively for the money and not for the joy of the art. That means that commissioners are reduced from partners to (at best) clients. The rude and dismissive way I've seen many artists treat their clientele is appalling.
If in the late 1990s/early 2000s artists were given too little respect, then today the opposite is true. Fans are treated like an unwashed mob (which isn't always untrue), and it's becoming a rare thing now to see people giving gift art to one another, or just doing random pictures for fun rather than incessant YCHs or sketch streams.

I could rant on, but much of this I've already said before. Bottom line is that I think too many artists are trying to use the fandom as a means to make money and not as a place to share in the community.

Find your favorite famous furry (like artica) and ask if he/she/it wants to partake in a commission and boom there you go. after that just ask the artist of choice can i get single picks along with this

Oh yes, it's quite hard to snag commissions from some people, and I always get annoyed when I get home from work, and find out they opened up RIGHT after I left for my shift XD I've managed to get art from artists like JerseyDevil a fair amount of times, and I was REALLY lucky, because his slots go in literally the first 5 minutes, probably less than that XD

Been hoping to snag an Ukent commission, but I've missed his last two openings due to work, and now he's going on hiatus for the new year, so I was like "Fuuuuuuuck" lmao XD

I'm always open for commissions, so I'm easy to catch. Poke me if you like what I do and want to grab one!

Yeah, I definitely can relate. Sometimes if the artist uses Twitter I have an easier time catching the announcements there, but it's still something to keep track of. I'm really excited for the commission system that Furry Network is working on tho, as it promises to send out email notifications when someone opens, and you'll be able to search for open artists. Hope people will use it when it comes out...