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A question for you about adoptable themes.
a year ago
Hey guys, I’m sorry for being so quiet again. I just need space to think about and process some shit following the departure of pets from my life. I've been through a few arcs of intense, crazy depression and anxiety. Slowly but surely, the part of my brain that "does" art is regrowing and getting used to all the new normals. Thank you for being patient with me. I owe a lot of you a response on various platforms. I’ll also be resuming uploads fairly soon once I punch through one or two more layers of social anxiety.
That said, I have a public question for you, especially those of you who collect adoptables. I’m currently in the process of bouncing back and getting a new slate ready to go. As I’ve laid the ground work for a new series, I found myself second guessing theme ideas.
To be sure, I could come up with no shortage of ideas; tribal warriors, modern soldiers, pirates, martial artists, steampunk mechanics, fantasy harnesses, etc., etc., etc. This is what I used to do, but I’m starting to worry that this may not produce characters that are exactly useful for your purposes.
I wonder which themes would actually be useful to my customers, and I ask myself questions like “will a pirate themed lioness actually be useful to someone’s tabletop campaign, or should I skew her costume to be more modern / minimalist?”
I could also generate a bunch of adopts that don't feature any costume at all, but then that makes me wonder something else: perhaps people *don't* want NSFW adopts. Perhaps there's a market for purely SFW adopts that I've not been serving. I realized that so much of what I used to do was anchored on NSFW. Something I'll definitely be doing is including many, many for SFW options.
I want to keep the offerings as varied as possible, but I don’t want to just throw darts at a dartboard to come up with themes that won’t ultimately be useful for you. I don’t want to just generate a bunch of impulse buys that end up collecting dust. I really like these guys, and I’m also delighted beyond words when I see people really developing their new OC and commissioning art.
So, I’m curious; would you buy them more for role playing purposes, or for personal world building purposes? How do you think I could design them in order to be maximally useful to as many potential buyers as possible? What do you look for when shopping for an adopt, especially one that you plan on making a primary OC?
Thank you for any feedback you could offer.
That said, I have a public question for you, especially those of you who collect adoptables. I’m currently in the process of bouncing back and getting a new slate ready to go. As I’ve laid the ground work for a new series, I found myself second guessing theme ideas.
To be sure, I could come up with no shortage of ideas; tribal warriors, modern soldiers, pirates, martial artists, steampunk mechanics, fantasy harnesses, etc., etc., etc. This is what I used to do, but I’m starting to worry that this may not produce characters that are exactly useful for your purposes.
I wonder which themes would actually be useful to my customers, and I ask myself questions like “will a pirate themed lioness actually be useful to someone’s tabletop campaign, or should I skew her costume to be more modern / minimalist?”
I could also generate a bunch of adopts that don't feature any costume at all, but then that makes me wonder something else: perhaps people *don't* want NSFW adopts. Perhaps there's a market for purely SFW adopts that I've not been serving. I realized that so much of what I used to do was anchored on NSFW. Something I'll definitely be doing is including many, many for SFW options.
I want to keep the offerings as varied as possible, but I don’t want to just throw darts at a dartboard to come up with themes that won’t ultimately be useful for you. I don’t want to just generate a bunch of impulse buys that end up collecting dust. I really like these guys, and I’m also delighted beyond words when I see people really developing their new OC and commissioning art.
So, I’m curious; would you buy them more for role playing purposes, or for personal world building purposes? How do you think I could design them in order to be maximally useful to as many potential buyers as possible? What do you look for when shopping for an adopt, especially one that you plan on making a primary OC?
Thank you for any feedback you could offer.
I do think it would be a good idea to have sfw adopts, maybe give them a nsfw option for an added fee or as an extra file
Answering your question, I could suggest some sci-fi related adopts too along with the list you have. In general, I like many of the characters you did previously.
By the time you start selling them, I'll share your post in FA and Twitter.
Be well! ❤️
I believe you deserve good things.
I personally dislike it when people buy OCs and not use them, kind of depressing in a way if you think about it, you put a lot of love into them as the artist and these people who buy them just shelve them away never to be respected nor used in any sort of nice way. I've stuck with mine, have no desire to get another OC or Sona. The adopt you had that wasn't as popular like the rest of the bulls you had.. well he is now 'me.'
Id say also expand your species list. sharks and aquatic beings, fandom originals (protogens, sergals etc) showing that you can do things like this also opens you up to more people who would want to commission for their sona.
I've found that a lot of people really like adoptables when they can get a ref sheet but also buy it with a little bit of art already included - they feel like they're buying a more fully fleshed-out character that way.
You could always offer said-package as an additional buy-on. Maybe have a few outlines and and sketches prepped in advance so that if someone DOES want something additional, you've already laid out the basic ground-work for it, without having to do a lot of extra art for each adoptable. Just give yourself some SFW and NSFW templates that you could knock out if someone wants them, and boom.
(I have my schedule set up in such a way where every Monday is basically a "draw what I want" day, so I wouldn't be OUT of anything even if that ended up being the case - but I have yet to make an adoptable that didn't sell. Not saying that to brag, just saying there IS a market for it, especially if you're willing to cater to kinks.)
If you'd like to talk about it more of the "insider" stuff (specific details about stuff) on Telegram, you're welcome to hit me up - my @ on there is MerakBurr, just like here.