Form templates for artists & galleries

Artists sell work that does not exist yet, and galleries sell a room and a date. These templates cover both: commission requests, art fair and craft fair applications, exhibition press previews, sponsorship and volunteer forms, and the releases behind a show.

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A commission is priced by its terms, not its hours. A surface pattern brief turns on repeat format and licensing territory; a book cover needs the publisher's trim size; an NFT collection needs the rights structure written down before anyone sketches.

Gallery forms carry a different weight: a juried art fair application with an artist statement, a docent shift on one floor section, whether the artwork stays on the walls during a private hire. Conditional logic asks each of those only where it belongs, and every answer lands in one searchable list.

61 forms artists & galleries actually build

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What artists & galleries usually collect

The brief behind a commission

Character age range and personality for a picture book protagonist, channel theme and emote slot count for a streamer, placement and size for a tattoo flash sheet, the deliverable format — PSD, turnaround sheets — for game concept art.

Rights, licensing and territory

Where the artwork will be reproduced and for how long: commercial licensing territory on a surface pattern, product categories on a merchandise print, blockchain platform and rights structure on a collection, print resolution for an editorial page.

Reference photos and portfolio links

The couple's shots for a wedding portrait, a pet's best angles, a mood board — a File Upload field brings those in with the brief. Bigger things stay links: a Behance folio, a SoundCloud set for a management enquiry, a drive folder of artwork samples for a juried show.

Stand, shift and space details

Booth canopy specifications and electricity needs on a fair application, floor section and time slot for a docent shift, catering policy and whether the artwork stays hung for a gallery hire.

21 templates to start from

How to set one up

  1. 1

    Open the Illustration Commission Request template and rewrite it in your own words — the questions you already type into DMs about subject, size, deadline and where the work will appear.

  2. 2

    Ask for the commission type first, then branch. A book cover asks genre and trim size; a Twitch set asks emote slot count; a tattoo enquiry asks placement and black-and-grey versus colour.

  3. 3

    Add a File Upload field so reference images arrive attached to the brief, a short text field for the Behance folio or drive folder, and a licensing question worded closely enough to quote from.

  4. 4

    Build the gallery side separately: Event Vendor Registration Form for a juried art fair call, Volunteer Shift Sign-Up Form for docents, Media Press Request Form for preview access.

  5. 5

    Share it where the work is seen — link in your Instagram bio, QR code on the wall label at a show, embed on your site — and export responses when fair season closes.

Frequently asked questions

How do clients send me reference photos with a commission request?

Attached to the request. File Upload is a field type in the editor, so the couple's reference shots or a pet's photos land on the same submission as the brief, and you download or preview each one from the response. Files are capped at 2 MB each, so a set of full-resolution scans, a Behance folio or a SoundCloud set for a management enquiry is better asked for as a link in a short text field.

Can one form cover every type of commission I take?

Yes. Ask for the commission type as the first question and let conditional logic do the rest. A children's book brief asks character age range and personality; a surface pattern brief asks repeat tile format and colour count; a video game commission asks deliverable format. Nobody scrolls past questions meant for someone else.

How should I ask about usage rights on a commission form?

Put the terms in the brief, where they belong. Ask where the work will be reproduced, the licensing territory, which merchandise categories are covered, and whether the rights are exclusive. That is a record of what was agreed, not a signed contract — there are no e-signature fields here, so your agreement still goes out the way it always has.

Can the form take a commission deposit or an art fair jury fee?

Yes. Add products and priced options to the form, then collect payment through secure hosted checkout with Stripe, PayPal, or Square. Payment status is tracked alongside the response.

What is the right way to collect a photo release for an exhibition?

Build it from the Photo Usage Permission Request template and write the usage scope out in full — hung in the gallery, sold as prints, entered into competitions. A ticked box records that the subject read and agreed; it is not a legally executed signature. Keep the form end-to-end encrypted, and have your own wording checked.

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