First of all, my frustration comes from the fact I'm completely and utterly stalled out to the point I am actually digressing both in skill and creativity. And the only thing I feel will help is someone more skilled than me taking the time to do step-by-step training. Alas, I have found everyone more skilled than me is either far too busy to socialize more than once every six months, or they don't want to socialize at all whatsoever. I need training. I don't have any, and never took any in school because I just didn't have the resources. And I sure as hell don't have another $40,000 to go through an art program at a college to do something that MIGHT get me $100 every other week. Not to mention I've been through just about every How-To book out there for art, and I find they ALL skip way too many steps and expect the person to have some sort of knowledge of the craft already.

And really, to tell the honest truth, for years I've really wanted to get to know even one amazingly skilled artist to talk about art, maybe even songwriting, and learn through casual conversation. But as I said it's difficult to talk to anyone of the sort for even five minutes out of six months or more, if even at all whatsoever. The really skilled artists, as a collective whole, seem to shut themselves off from the Online world outside of business interactions. That's been my observation, anyway.

So other than the fact that every time I pick up the stylus to draw I suddenly go blank and have to force out whatever it was I thought about drawing, the main reason I haven't opened commissions yet is that I don't feel I've progressed enough artistically to justify doing so. I've had a lot of debate about this in the past, and more than a dozen people have strongly suggested I open them anyway, but the truth is it takes me too long (6-8 hours on a sketch alone) to get inadequate results to justify charging even ten dollars. I feel it best to wait until I have reached a better, more prolific point in my artistic progression before I take on commissions. As examples, when I reach the point of being able to produce works like these, start to finish, in 3-5 hours:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11413045/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11344278/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11710648/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11453870/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11803179/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11643884/
... THEN I will open commissions. If these artists can do this kind of work in that short of an amount of time, it is physically possible. It's a question of what it takes to get to that point, and how long that will take.