Art based on Status

So really... Wolfhome is filled with artists, good, bad, mediocre. I would consider myself the latter of the three. I'm not amazing, but I'm not horrific. However when I try to sell fully custom poses, or any commission at all that is a "name your own price", I get no offers. The NYOP is me not setting a base charge. AND can be paid with a mix of money and deltas. Someone can pay me $1 and say 4 deltas. That's really not that bad. Especially if you have 573290 deltas. Then that is a damn cheap commission. Yet I have no one taking any offers. Not even in Totem Lands where everyone is all about art!

So it leaves me to believe this. Arists such as:
-Kesame
-Nanook
-FetherDrum
-Shivra
-Foxgrin
-FlatCat
-Nushaa
-Siedend/Galagya
-Sol
-etc..

Make and sell poses wicked fast. People eat up their works because they seem to have an "artistic status" that makes them stand out. However some people's works can end up not that great, imo. They are able to charge a redic amount for custom commissions, and get the buyers. Whereas little ol' me can say "Pay me a buck for a custom commission, idc!" and get no one because I'm not "known" enough in the artist community.

This is just what it feels like, at least.

So what do I have to start doing to get myself recognized and start reeling in buyers? Free poses? Free grayscales? Free backgrounds? Free "commissioned" art?

I know for a fact I need to work on getting things out in a timely matter LMAO because I tend to take forever to get a piece of commissioned art done. And I need to work on my furring hxc, my backgrounds, my poses even.

I'm just getting kind of frustrated that because I'm not known that I can't get any fans/buyers.