lol at first i thought this was an ad posting and i was like "why is it in quotes, are they being sarcastic???"
Welcome to DeviantArt though lol I never really liked it there to begin with, but I really jumped ship when the site did that major overhaul (when they changed it to that ugly logo and bumped the price up of the Premium membership program - excuse me, "CORE" program - without adding anything new to make up for the increased cost). Of course, the rabid FNAF, MLP and Homestuck fanbase didn't help either... or the front page "artistic" porn... or anything really, the site is long gone now IMO. Those "I'M GOING TO BE THE BEST MANGAKA IN JAPAN" pitches are just a small (but very annoying) piece of the bigger pie - and the pie is made of poo.
or offering commissions for $1 (or DA points... ugh)
Maybe it's just my conditioning from years of scavenging through DA like some kind of animal, but any time I see those "commission template" things, I throw up in my mouth lol You know the ones...
WILL DO
Portraits, fullbodies
Portraits
Black and White, $10
Color, $20
Background + $10
Fullbodies
Black and White, $15
Color, $30
Background + $10
etc etc etc.
like i dunno, if it worked for some people, good for you, but literally every artist did them and it always read like a shell-out for cash and it was just so fucked IMO lol
'I'm here looking for a real professional to make my zombie comic for free.'
answer: they don't exist. That's why they're professionals.