..Honestly, I really get tired of the adoptable bashing. What does every artist on here wish to receive from a commissioner? A reference. There's a TON of people with ideas and creativity who cant draw to save their lives. We're here on FA because we love art (the mature members of our community anyways, I won't speak for the fappers). If you are without a reference and you really wish you could buy commissions, an adoptable is a ready made way to have a ref on hand to get that pic from your favorite artist who've you have always wanted to hire but lacked a ref to do so.

Plus it does take a great deal of thought to come up with creative designs to create adoptables, even if a generic template is used. Artists have a lot of ideas and adoptables are a great means of experimentation in the exercise of color design and patterns. I've seen more adoptables with fantastic patterns than I have ever seen on most plain-Jane OC's.