Yeah commissions are a difficult thing. The assumed "reason" is things like price, artistic skill, etc. which can lead to a lot of self doubt. In reality, though, it often comes down to popularity, which is a mix of a lot of things (including a notable chunk of luck).

Looking at your profile and a few random recent pictures, you have 623 watchers, but recent uploads have 100-140ish views, seemingly. That's not a huge pool of people, and the trick would be to, out of that group, persuade people to place commissions. I have no idea how many commissions "the average furry" gets, but i imagine it might be not super high.

If you're looking to make furry art a bigger thing for you commercially, all i can think of to further that is grow your popularity. You could try things like collabs and trades with other artists, or raffles where you incentivize people to post a journal and otherwise point attention at you. Those sort of things can help draw eyeballs to your profile that otherwise would simply miss / not notice you. There's no surefire way to get people's attention and thus the attention of commissioners, though; that's just a problem with working via the internet. Every single artist that's not already super popular faces that issue, same as people starting a career (or already established as a small career) in youtube, twitch, etc. It's really hard.

Looking at your prices, they definitely seem quite low. Low enough for me to actually get one, since i don't have that much of a budget and can only really get small things here and there. It's not much in the big picture, but hey, this upload has at least managed to draw my attention, and something comes from it ^^.

(i'll send you a note tomorrow, i'll try to come up with an idea as well as having to figure out -what- to commission. As an aside, if you feel like you want to talk about these issues, feel free to poke me, my contact info for various things are on my profile.)

I understand it perfectly, your words are clear to me. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong in the end. I have been drawing with my finger for a long time, for more than five years I have been running my finger across the screen of an ordinary tablet on an android. And with the help of this I was able to save up on my full-fledged computer and additional equipment, and as a result, all this disappeared.
Plus, there is a situation when finances are very necessary, they are not there, just some kind of "law of meanness".

I just started to be ironic about the fact that I am the "cheapest" artist. Because all my friends, someone even with a similar audience like me, have orders, and they ask several times more than I do. That's what really hurts. If anything, I am not blaming anyone.

I'm scared right now, just that I won't be able to spend this New Year normally, even alone, because I just don't know how to attract people to me. Even on FA there is no money for advertising.

I am still trying to take orders, so to speak, in my country, where the prices are still two times less than those indicated in my price list. Just because I know asking for foreign prices is pointless.
But even there, too, almost no one is attracted by creativity, rarely who comes back with orders again, one can count on the fingers of one hand.

Regarding a joint something, a collab, for example, or a trade, it is also difficult to find, I was recently written with a proposal to trade, I decided to start, wrote about it, and there is a long silence, there is no answer, and I don’t know whether to start or not. For collaborations with friends, there are no volunteers, random people ask to first have an audience of 1000+. I am glad of all this, but I don’t know why this is so (

The main thing is not to think that I somehow impose myself on you or so on. I’m just tired, I don’t have the strength to hold it back. I will all the same notice it or not, I just had to pour out my soul somewhere. I did it, crookedly and through a translator, but it made me feel a little bit better))))

If you suddenly want to order something, I will be glad of it) The main thing for me is that it should be completely your decision, and not imposed by me)))

In any case, thanks for the nice words, and I hope that I could and can please you with my creativity)

The commissions certainly isn't "imposed", the main reason for the commission is that this happened to make me notice your prices and i had some budget but no plans to do anything with it.

Communication with other people (artist or otherwise) can always lead to trouble. If you have someone offering / asking for a trade and go silent, you can send them a message back but it's probably not ideal to stay hung up on their offer and keep looking.

I think the biggest thing i'd like to make clear is that, in my opinion, you're not necessarily doing anything "wrong", so much as getting an audience / commissions on the internet is a lot of luck. All you can probably do is keep trying, in as many ways as you can, but unfortunately nothing's guaranteed. keep eyes out for collabs, try various platforms (for example, i don't use twitter much, but a lot of artists do). Making some giftart for other people with a larger audience can help too (whether they be artist or a heavy commissioner) - it's of course absolutely zero guarantees in any result, but there's been more than a few artists i only ever found because they made a giftart for someone i was already watching, and they uploaded it. or, if on twitter, they are very likely to retweet it and it'll be visible to their audience too.

It's okay to feel the way you do. I'm sure it can feel like a hopeless situation. But, there's probably not much to do but to keep trying, and try keep your spirits high. Try different things, and don't let yourself feel like it's all your own fault if things don't work out.