Artifex is just a database of artists and their commission prices that I (Zephyr) made. This is just a hobby project of mine, pretty much, and while I'm using it as an excuse to learn and mess with things like user account management and such, I'm just a creature on the internet.
This exists for a few reasons:
1. I need to learn data management and database programming better (I am still failing at it even with this project)
2. I like artists and art also
3. My "cool artists" folder of bookmarks on firefox has like. over 200 bookmarks in it. It's bad