Okay, so this is mostly me bored at work kind of talking out of my ass and I know this won't get any traction but hey, getting thoughts on "paper" is fun.

Basically a site to make communication between commissioners and artists as effective as possible while opening options for artists to find art they want to do as well.

From an artist's perspective you'd make a profile with art styles and a picture of each, kind of like the commission tab in here, as well as a sort of trello sort of thing so instead of constantly asking artists for their trello or how far along they are you can literally just click the page and bam, updates. Also would have an artist "bio" type thing where they could put down what they like to draw, their schedule if they have one, a general idea of how long it takes you to do a piece from receiving info or payment to completion. I'd even say a ratings system but I know a few people are pretty petty and it'd make it hard to view as a reliable source (though maybe it'd encourage commissioners to PM previous commissioners to ask opinion on how it was working with the artist if you left out a ratings system)

Commissioners would have somewhat similar tools such as an on site place to register who owes them art (maybe the ability to "fave" certain progress branches so they can follow their stuff and possible wips they like the look of). Their bio would allow stuff like a character ref or a few pictures, maybe even a text description for those without pictures, as well as a kink thing, maybe an idea of how long they're willing to wait for art or their price range.

Finally the thing I think would be the bigger draw: "bounties". YCH auctions are super popular with artists. Draw a prepose of something you wanna draw or that you think is an easy sell and wait. But for commissioners, especially picky ones like myself, there's something you don't like about the picture, whether it be the pose or disallowed genders, price point cause auction or any number of things. So basically the idea would be to have a forum of some type as part of the site that works as a bounty board. Artists can still have their YCH things posted to one section, preferably kink or species tagged to make finding content the commissioner likes easier but it opens up the option for commissioners to do the same. Like me? I've been looking for candy gore artists for a while cause it's legit one of my favorite aesthetics ever. I've got ideas for shit I wanna do with it but finding artists that do CG in general, much less ones that like the idea or whatever, is hard. So in my situation I'd go to the forum, post the idea, tag the living hell out of it and wait (or go peek at YCH options on the other part of the board). The idea is that an artist would be able to say "well I wanna draw this species/fetish/aesthetic/style/etc." And could go look for that in the bounties, opening the commissioner up to artists they might not have known existed by having the artist come forth instead. It also sort of works in an artist's favor because if they just don't like the character then they don't even have to say anything, just hide the post and move on. Of course it could work like the normal "open for commissions" journal post or whatever, there'd be no reason to dump that, but I see it as a way of "networking" that gets artists as involved in the hunt for things they enjoy as commissioners are. After all, getting your art out there as an artist is as easy as posting but unless you're a frequent commenter on various and typically popular artists' pages, you don't have as large a presence as a guy who just buys art.

So uh... Yeah. That wasted a good fifteen minutes of my day. Phone keyboards suck. But hey, better than not saying anything at all.