Send the brief.
Or just the problem — half of these start as a conversation about what the thing is even for.
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What helps in a first message.
What it is, roughly when you need it, and anything you have already — a rough sketch, a competitor you like, a page you tore out. Format does not matter.
If it is a portrait commission, a couple of photographs and a sense of the size you are imagining is enough to start.