Making Your First Request

1. Pick Your Artist

Browse profiles and look at past work before you send anything. Each artist's profile shows their style, pricing, and what types of requests they accept.

2. Set Your Price

Every artist sets two prices: a minimum (the lowest they'll accept) and a recommended price (what they typically charge for a standard piece). Your offer has to meet the minimum, but where you land above that is up to you.

Think of your offer as a signal for scope. Offering above the recommended price tells the artist you're expecting more detail, more characters, or more complexity. They'll factor your offer into what they deliver.

If the artist has commercial use enabled and you toggle it on, the minimum price increases by their commercial uplift percentage (more on that below).

3. Write Your Description

This is the most important part of your request. There are no revision rounds on Scratch, so your description is the artist's entire brief. Everything they need to know should be in here.

Be specific: subject, mood, colors, composition, background, lighting. If you have a strong preference, spell it out. If you're flexible on something, say that too.

Each artist sets their own character limit (up to 2,000 characters by default). Use as much of it as you need.

4. Add Reference Images

You can include up to 5 image URLs with your request. These are optional, but good references can do more than a paragraph of description.

Use them for:

5. Your Options

The request form has a few toggles depending on what the artist allows. Here's what each one does.

After You Submit

Your payment is held the moment you submit. The artist has 30 days to respond: they can accept, decline, or ask you one clarifying question.

Once accepted, they have 60 days to deliver. You can cancel anytime before acceptance for a full refund. If the artist doesn't respond or deliver in time, you're refunded automatically.