Thought I recognized that style!
I've commissioned that same artist in the past!
Looks really good.
But yeah, I know the feel.
Sometimes things don't really turn out exactly as planned, which is really annoying >->' (I've got a few arts like that as well)
Tho without a proper ref it's kinda hard to really get your ideas across.
You never got any WIPs? That'd have been a good opportunity to point out things.
Artist show them for a reason, and usually won't crawl through screen to murder you if you request changes.
You haven't thought of doing a/having a temporary ref done?
Like, on one of those free-to-use bases. I've done that a few times, and even if they aren't always the best representations due to limited shapes, it's always possible to add notes to it with corrections/clarifications.
And at the very least, it's still a step up from only a mostly text-based ref.