In case you are curious what I pay attention to when choosing my slots and how to increase your chances, I've thought about
making a short list of reasons that have a chance to get you chosen or kicked for sure.

tl;dr below

1) Personal Preference - This is probably the most important point and hard to work around, but for the sake of my own
well-being and so that I can actually enjoy the pics you commission, I'll more often than not choose characters I personally
like or that I'm already familiar with over others. I am however trying to be the least picky I can.

2) Variety - I'm trying to make all the slots (usually 5) have a different theme. Meaning I'll never just choose 5 mawshot type
pics cause they're easy and not try anything else. Took mawshots as an example because that's like 70-80% of all ideas, so if
you are 1 of 20 people in that category, your chances are slim even if I do like your picture. If you go for anything else
macro/micro related your chances are bigger since you have a let's say 1:5 chance instead of a 1:20. Same with character
variety, lot of people always want their Lucarios drawn x3

3) Old and New Commissioners - In every commission row I want to give at least 2 or 3 people who've never gotten a pic from
me before the chance for a slot. Working with only.. "old customers" (I'm not a store, what the heck <-<) would be easier,
because their ideas and chars are almost always a pick for me, but I know there are a lot of people who've been waiting to
get a pic from me and not gotten the chance yet, so I wanna bring in new people as much as possible.

4) A short, precise comment - There have been times where people would tell me their idea in like 10-20 lines, and I dislike that
sooo much x3 that's why the word brief is the most highlighted word in my journals. If you manage to convey a crisp
image of what you like to see in as few words as possible, you have my attention. Preferrably enough info for me to just start
sketching right then and there to get a feel for whether your pic will work out for me or not.

5) Complete Information - Kinda ties in with #4. If you tell me "Will give you the characters/exact idea after I get chosen", I'll
most likely skip over you. I know some people may be shy to talk about their idea publicly, please just send me a PM then.

6) Reference Sheets - You don't even need a whole sheet, just one or two example pics are fine, but please have them ready
when you comment. Unfortunately not everyone has their characters... brought to life yet, sketched out well enough for me to
be able to work with. Which is not an insult to anyone's art out there, but I just wanna be faithful to most characters, which is
hard to do when I can't quite imagine what the original artist was going for.

7) My own OCs - I'm just reluctant to draw a few of them for commissions, sorry. Schwarzpelz is a no, Snowball in really rare cases.



And again, you may follow all of these perfectly, but #1 and #2 might still get you ruled out, sorry if that has happened to you
before. I know the last row was a bit unfair time-wise, considering it was not even open for 8 hours, but after like
30 comments for only 5 slots I had to close it.

Anyway, that's just some stuff I pay attention to that might help you get a slot next time around~


tl:dr

1) Personally preferred pics have a higher chance to get picked
2) Asking for something else other than mawshots might increase your chances
3) Trying to pick new and old commissioners alike
4) Be precise in your picture description
5) Have all necessary info ready from the get go
6) Always have reference pictures ready
7) My own OCs are usually a no