I'll like to talk about how my friends are going through tough times and how they get stressed, my friend Queen-Koopa / Queen-Koopa96 is not feeling well for the past couple of months *She's not sick, but going through personal stuff* and says she won't do anymore requests, and only do art trades and point commissions.
I also want to talk about how people were either comfortable and uncomfortable with what things they draw, for example, some stupid sicko on DeviantArt asked Aso-Designer / Aso-Designer to draw Rosalina from Mario with bare feet and she said no, you know how other people won't like that.
Also as for me, I DON'T do either requests, art trades, nor commissions, and I get very upset when strangers ask me for them.
Please take my advice:
1: If they don't do requests, find someone else who does requests, AND if they do art trades, ask for an art trade then.
2: Please ask what they draw and what they DON'T draw first, because I don't want them to be very upset.
3: If either requests, art trades, or commissions *Both real life money *Which I CAN'T afford* and DeviantArt Points* they do are closed, FIND someone else.
4: If the users are not feeling well, FIND someone else.
5. Find art raffles if you want requests, or point raffles if you want points to pay for point commissions, I go to these raffles.