I'm not one to normally bitch about artists. And I'm not going to name anyone in particular, but of the many artists that I watch, I've notched a trend, more of them are doing these silly 6-10 at a time adoptables.

Now don't get me wrong, I fully understand that some artists live fully off their commissions, and have to keep the money flowing. However I can't help but shake my head and find it a little bit silly, among other things the idea of adoptables.

"I want to purchase, this pre-colored, pre-gendered, completely pre-generated character with no original input of my own from you dear artist" Does that make any sense? Now that's coming from a guy who's apart of a fandom wherein a good hunk of us represent ourselves with pokemon/digimon/starfox/sonic recolors, or with slight hair style changes.

I guess it just bothers me a little that a artist will design a fairly generic-ish (I did say ish, not all of them are basic foxes :P) character, recolor it 6 times, and maybe change the markings ever so slightly between them, and pop em off at $15+ a pop depending on the quality of the artist. It sorta feels like a mass production style setup, and although it may or may not be good money, it just doesn't sit well with me. I've always felt as apart of the community, one should look at themselves, and figure out what they really feels should represent them for their character, or hell, if there not that deep into it, a character they design for the hell of it becuase they really like it.


I suppose at the end of the day, I'm never going to unwatch an artist that does this, nor will I call them out as a money hungry asshole. I surely won't never commission them(depending on who it is) I just felt like making a long rant like journal, maybe get input from you guys.