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Need Your Input on Adoptables
12 years ago
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I know some people like them and some people dont. If you don't care for them
I don't need to know please, I'm looking for input from people who do like them.
So I've looked over the different ways people go about offering adoptables.
Sometimes it's the same creature and pose just with recoloring.
Sometimes its the same pose with different creatures and colors.
Sometimes it's different poses, different creatures and colors.
Sometimes it starts with an egg then gets hatched into something
but you have no idea what until it hatches.
What about crazy colors and designs?
Do they have to be complex to be appealing?
Some of these methods take longer and more effort and thus should
cost more but I assume the point of these is to be cheap art from
your favorite artist. If one sells them for cheap they
don't want to put too much time into them because then
they aren't worth selling. (Think of terms like a parttime job, if
something takes you over an hour to create it should be
worth over min wage right?)
Do most people just want to collect them like pokemon or do
most people actually want to buy one they want to use in
future art/commissions?
I want to do these on the side in between commissions, something
fun with artistic freedom but still make a bit of money. What do
you think is the best way to go about them?
However, the numbers don't lie, and many people do buy them and enjoy them, so I dunno. I personally respect an artist alot more if they simply draw for commission instead of selling pre-cooked, single serving, vacuum packed adoptables.
Normally, people are more interested in the cockfighting, ahem "bidding wars," that go off as a result of such adoptables. So with simple and clean designs, nothing crazy with colors and horns and whatnot. If you use horns or antlers, be wise with crazy colors.
I don't mind paying more than the usual $5, $10, $15 for adopts if they aren't recolored lines. I understand why people recolor their lines, especially if they are only selling their designs for $5 a pop.
I also like to know what my rights are as the buyer. I have a couple of adoptables that I am barred from making money off of, but I am free to get commissions of them all I want. Others give me complete free reign with the design.
I like to get semi-complex designs to force me to draw with more detail when it comes to design; I use them also for inspiration; like training wheels to design things. (ex: I suck at modern fashion clothes, so I get adopts with that type of clothing to get some inspiration and eventually, after drawing it a lot of times, I'll be able to design my own)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12268934/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9786175/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10869887/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8924765/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10798434/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10624742/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9093907/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9361553/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9015857/
http://www.synchrastudios.com/galle.....es2-BAMBOO.jpg (this was part of a big bunch like the bergsums and the snow roos.)
My current one isn't selling well but I never had a problem with the rest I made!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10798434/
http://www.synchrastudios.com/galle.....es2-BAMBOO.jpg
I think they're useful. I think many people might have a problem with designing their own fursona/characters and that's perfectly okay to buy something from someone because you like the design and it just fits right to you. A lot of fursuit makers will make random characters and auction off the suit. It's the same principle, but different medium. People only complain about adoptables because they think it's easy to just make patterns and swirls on a character with colors. When in reality designing can be very difficult. Sometimes you might just have an idea for a character, but don't know what to do because you may have too many. What else are you gonna do with it but sell it or give it to someone.
Overall, I like adoptables and I think they can be cute and quirky if their designs don't look like they took 5 seconds to make with just random splashes of colors and patterns. They're a viable way for someone to get art from you, a species, or character they want for their self.
p.s. long comment is long and feels like i was doing a speech but idk omfg i just really like them and think they're adorable
Eggs: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9874975/
Hatchlings: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9914888/
I think the egg thing is pretty interesting. I watch someone who's done one of those and they're pretty awesome.
This person does adoptables and they seem to work really well fer them.
Examples of the egg type deal they did:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11914125/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11916268/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11921644/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11923044/
• Stay away from recoloring a single linework 20 times.
• Offer a custom sketch/commission included with any character you sell (and charge a slightly higher base cost)
• Try to avoid doing huge cookie cutter sheets that have 8+ characters all on one canvas, where it's obvious that you're selling adoptables.
• Try to avoid selling every last little thing you doodle as an adoptable while not posting anything else ever - try to keep them unique and in reasonably limited supply.
Not hard to keep it tasteful - just gotta be careful not to make it a `constant, every post` thing so you don't burn out the people who are sensitive to being advertised to constantly.
To me, an adoptable is a visual representation of a character. A design that inspires me, I buy. And what ends up happening, because I'm not a visual artist, is that I get inspired by a design, and I end up with a character that I flesh out and enjoy writing and roleplaying out.
(Honestly, I was sad when the panda you had up suddenly went away. I was trying to decide if I had a spare $50 to spend on her...)
I've bought and like both the more singular, unique ones, and some of the 'cookie-cutter' ones. It all comes down to how much I like the artist's style and skill, and the design they've come-up with (and if I have enough money at the time ^_^ ) As a writer, I just don't have the sense of design that the visual artists on here do. Most of the characters that I come-up with on my own are simple anthro forms of normal animals. Some of the designs that visual artists come-up with are things that I could never imagine myself, and they take me down interesting paths as I come-up with a back story for the character.
Some of the attraction is a bit like collecting baseball cards, or comic books, or pokemon. Part of it is impulse-shopping; if I see a really cute design or color scheme, then I want to get the character. I try to come-up with a full, rich back-story for all of the characters I buy. Sometimes the adoptable can fill the role of a character I already had in mind, sometimes they make great secondary or ancillary characters for my stories. Sometimes my mind gets whirring on the character, and they become a primary character. Even if they're a 'cookie-cutter' design, I'm going to make them unique, and so are the other artists that I commission to get further art of the character.
I don't think less of artists who do adoptables, even cookie-cutter ones. Most artists don't get paid nearly what they deserve for their art, and selling adoptables off of the same base is a way that they can help even out some of that time-spent to income-earned ratio. I work hard for my money, and I know artists work hard for theirs. If I find ways to do my job quicker and with less effort (while still mainting quality) then I sure-as-shit take them, and I don't hold it against anyone who does the same in their own field.