How about this:

"Maybe you should hold a raffle every once in a while. Anything with the words "free" and "art" together in the same sentence causes a frenzy greater than a zombie horde at an all-you-can-eat brain buffet. Don't bother posting up any rules, though; they'll be so blinded by the promise of having their special snowflake Dutch angel dragon dreamy drawn that they'll neglect to read them anyway."

HAHA

Guess Closed/open creatures should be done too. Cruxes, Angel Dragons, Sergals, Chakats, etc

Feel free to add to this list everyone XD

^ second

^ this

"here we bost tolerance... WAIT YOU DONT AGREE WITH THE SAME THINGS AS ME YOU ARE TERRIBLE"

"it is expected of you to spam everyone who favs and watches you with pasted tankyou notes in their shout box

"always ask for change, but when you get it complain about things not being the same"

"Never ever have any worry about money in your life. Just quit your job! As you become more and more popular, you will never need to worry about the rough times like medical expenses or rent. Just put out "EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS!!1!" You will not even have to do them. Just enough for most to never complain. Hope that most forget about ever making the commission, and refund those that complain in a year as a no interest loan!"

"when you cant keep track of your own business records and who you owe a product to. just open up a journal asking people to inform you that at some point they gave you money for art work that you never did! But this isn't a garentee you will ever do it, just to let them know you think about the fact that you owe them"

always spend your money from commissions before you do them, because then when they want a refund you can just throw your hands up and say but I don't have your money anymore. I bought this new adopt"

"always have your clients send you money as a gift. sure you are using paypal's service but they are just an evil corporation trying to steal all your money. while youre at it, you don't need to pay your taxes either"

T.T I say thank yous for faves and watches as long as the person doesn't have something saying not to... I don't copy paste mine either.... *sniffles*

That last one is more of a convenience to not get paypal to notice the trade of what could be construed pornography, something I'm sure that paypal's terms have something against doing openly.

you are more likely to be caught and fined for using "friends and gifts" than using it to sell pornographic art. it also means your client has no rights to the work they are giving money for and when you dont put out, they cant do anything but shake their head for sending it as a gift.

In general its bad business on both ends to do it. Also when you get caught for receiving money for services marked as gifts, paypal can and will penalize the senders as well.

Never said it was smart.

I am far too braindead to help with this at the moment. Hopefully, I will have something witty to add tomorrow morning!

"No one on FurAffinity is allowed to be completely straight. Everyone must be bisexual, gay, pansexual, homoromantic demisexual genderfluid otherkin, or some other sort of orientation. That's what the straights get from picking on these people, right? What an open and accepting community we are!"

"Tell the artists that you commission that "your work is worth so much more" and after they raise their prices, never commission them again"

"if their prices already reflect their amazing quality of work, tell them their art isn't worth it and you know someone who does better for cheaper"

"ask and pay extra for both safe for work and adult versions of your work. That way when you post up the different versions you can become pissed that the safe version doesnt get attention"

"Pets are your best weapon against furries! Fur is even in the name! Have more pets than you can care for then when you cant pay for the vet trip for your only cat make an emergency journal for commissions since you didn't plan ahead for resposiblity"

"always complain about free art that you get! If the artist wont give you free work, unwatch them they aren't worth your time!"

9"Go to art streams and if your commission or free art isnt being drawn, dont even stick around after saying "hi""

"hug everyone, we all love being touched by total strangers over the internet"
"if they accept the random hug, it is probably ok to hump them too"

"never actually learn to draw. Furries aren't real creatures so there is no need to bother with anatomy and form. And color theory? Pshh, who needs it make your sona any and all colors you can possibly think of!"

"here in the furry community we can copyright colors. Don't listen to the actual laws, if we put the little c in a circle next to something that makes it legally binding. Oh hey I think i am going to use the monster logo on my sona!"

Tell 'em to choose a name, keeping in mind that they must jam together a cutesy version of their species name and a random object, separated by a dash. ie: folfy-screw

HAHA, I was already planning to do that

hawt

.... If you ever find yourself on the wrong end of a witch hunt simply drop your account and start over. XD

^^^^ THISSSSSSSS

Be sure to jump on every possible raffle/kiriban/drawing/freebie post you possibly can; the more of you there is out there, the more popular you'll get!

(That being said, I love free art myself and jump on lots of those, too.) XD

Post borderline raunchy comments on everything! Any attention is good attention!

Sounds like a nice idea, good luck with it.

Well so much for my idea...

Scrap another one. Thanks for the heads up though.

No, i was going to do something on the site more modeled after a 6 minute video on how to commission furry art that I saw about 3 years ago.

Even the basic chibi art is nearly the same as the Jello Videos