I'm doing some free comissions for people really soon, starting with a couples icon set like this:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6374176/

I'll be making them unpixelated.

Hey guys, I have enough folks for couples icons, but please check back soon. I plan on moving on to bigger free pieces.

I intend to move up from some free icons, to lineart, to full colored pieces and landscapes. I'm doing this so that I will have clear-cut examples of what kind of comissions I will do, and so that I can time how long these pieces will take me so I can give accurate ETAs on how long they will take uninterrupted. These will be displayed somewhere with my commission info. SO that being said, leave me some refs if you want some done.

---

Now let me make a mention about something I saw recently.

I've done a lot of requests in my time on FA, but sometimes I will go on other good up-and-coming artists' pages and see people saying, "wow, your art is great. do you do requests?" The way I see a comment like that is more like "I'd love some of your art, but only if it's free right now." I think it can be a real let-down and sometimes disappointing for many artists who often spend days of time on their work, only to find that many folks would be willing to take those days of hard work in a design for little more than a pat on the back. Of course some people do that in hopes an artist is in a good mood, but you really do gain an artist's respect when you show them that their art is worth what they think it should be worth.