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Karijn-s-Basement — Adoptables Tutorial Repost
Published: 2012-07-16 13:23:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 32608; Favourites: 873; Downloads: 256
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Reposted because dA has converted the original deviation into a text deviation.
Until I've found a way to fix it, we'll need to do it this way.
Adoptables Journals Series:
Adoptables, Basics for Adopters
Adoptables, Basics for Adoptables Artists
Adoptables Tutorial
Adoptables, Writing an Artist's Description
Adoptables, Customs
Adoptables, Design Tutorial
Adoptables, Buying Adoptables
Adoptables, Pricing
Original Species Tutorial
Adoptables, Auctions
Adoptables, Original Species Confusion
Adoptables, I sold one, now what?
Adoptables, Doing It Traditional
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Awww. 
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I've written some fanfic drabbles and oneshots, but nothing longer than 2000 words... I wrote a story back when I was 13, but it was long, with too big words and now that I re-read it, absolutely awful. T_T
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I know how you feel. XD I have quite a few stories like that. I'm not a very good writer
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Everyone with practice can achieve the same skill level, talent is just a thing that makes you reach that level faster. I don't consider myself to be a bad writer (and we could talk ages about what exactly makes a bad writer *bad*), but I don't have a writing drive or the constance to keep writing once I've started, so I stick to drawing.
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Mmm, I feel the same way.
@___@;; I keep hoping that all the activity I see in my feed might be someone offering to buy one of my adoptables but I just see a lot of favorites. I put them in a bunch of groups but there's still no one who wants to buy.
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Well, I saw only 4, so not exactly a bunch... Mine are submitted to at least 50, if I want to try and sell something and often they're always snatched up by my usual customers. I took the liberty of adding them to some more groups.
And I once had to wait for nearly a year to sell an adoptable, despite starting out with very underpriced adoptables... In the beginning it's always a bit hard, but once you start going, it's an easy road. But I've met some adoptable artists that gave up because their one or two adoptables weren't bought soon enough (some after a month, one even after an hour...).
Everybody is doing adoptables right now so the offer is very high and people now look for high quality and low prices... Something that is not very common, so my trick was coming up with an 'originality' offer. You can have a horse from everyone at every price, but my species can only be adopted through me, so it's not the client that sets the price, but it's me. My luck is that my species are well liked, and I've been snatching up some interesting new ones to re-vamp.
SO you just need to get some more exposure and be patient.
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<3 You're awesome 
Wow, really? After only an hour? XD That's insane.
So would it be better to just come up with characters that are really unique or make my own animal and sell those?
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Yes, they were using one of my bases and asked me why they didn't sell. When I looked at the timer I saw it was submitted less than an hour before... It's not like people stand in line to buy, unless you're one of those 1-million artists that have thousands of watchers and commissioners.
And it's all about what you feel more comfortable with, if you think you can give your best with human/kemonomimi designs or with OS designs. I started out with creatures because they were all the rage a year and half ago, when I started, but then human designs came out too and I added some too, just to make sure I still knew how to draw people.
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I'm looking forward to see your designs, then!
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Submitted my newest one!
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Very cute, and your newer ones too, the giraffe boy is definitely my favourite among the three of them.
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XD People really like the giraffe. I'm fond of the colors <3 It actually sold!
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Your art and designs are good, you just needed to be pointed in the right direction.
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Now the question is, how do I convert points to cash? XD
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The payer must send you the points through the Purchase Button.
Unfortunately you can't convert points to cash by yourself (I tried, the admins returned the points to my main account and took away the money from my earnings), but you can set up a Purchase Button that people can use. I usually put it on the deviation itself, but you can create a specific deviation just for that.
Be warned though, that since you don't have a PM, dA will probably take $1 for every transfer to paypal you'll make, so it would be better to build up a bit of money and then trasfer everything in one go.
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o.o;; how do I do that? The person already sent me points.
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I generally give them back and then direct them to the deviation with the purchase button. Most of them don't mind, it's just an extra passage.
You can add it by editing the deviation's setting and add the 'Premium Content' option. Then you need to attach a file to it (you can use a copy of the submitted deviation), decide a price for the button and then update the settings.
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@___@;; such a pain in the butt! I think I got it to work now but I feel bad about asking them to resubmit points.
The submission system is so confusing... I wish it was more clear.
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There was a tutorial in the beginning that explained everything, but then sta.sh changed so much that it became unusable... I think that most point commissioners (who have paypal) don't use the purchase button because they don't know how to set it or because it's a bit of a hassle to set it up.
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No kidding! I tried to edit the chibis the first time and it created a whole new submission! XD I'll have to update all my other pieces too now
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I have two 'fake deviations' with buttons so I simply use those instead of fixing the old ones...
I'm so lazy. T_T
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XD I thought about doing that.... *laugh*
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No really, I insist! ^-^ Just let me know which one you like when I post it. Should be up in a few minutes
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...not that the tears are visible there. B|
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DA needs a like button XD
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Definitely, but with all the drama going on I think we're already too close to be like FB.
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Japanese.
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One of my two best friends graduated in Japanese language and culture, I've tried starting it in high school, but I couldn't deal with the different alphabet... The lazyness was already setting in.
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*laugh* I got a game called My Japanese Coach that really does help with the basic alphabets in a way that you can't teach with paper. I managed to learn hiragana and katakana over winter break when I got it a few years ago. Kanji is hard though!
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For DS? I seem to remember a game like that... I personally prefer playing games, I've been stuck on the Etrian Odyssey series for about forever.
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Haven't heard of that one. Yeah, it's for DS :3 Most of the games I play are actual games too but it was really helpful because of how it was laid out. Plus, "vocabulary quizes" are minigames
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It's a dungeon crawling game, I love them, along with turn-based RPGs like Fire Emblem.
The only not-only-game I have is Art Academy.
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Haven't played that one but I've seen it around. Is it good?
Also, Fire Emblem! Yay! <3 XD But it's so difficult keeping all the characters alive to the end. I enjoy Final Fantasy Tactics too-- your army members aren't gone permanently when they're defeated
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I like the art and the general gameplay (I love long games), the music is awesome too, but some have complained that there are not enough animations, that the 'crawling' and 'levelling' is annoying... I think they bought the wrong game, I think it's one of the best I've ever seen of that genre.
Not that many of them have been made for portable consoles... But you can draw the map yourself and that is definitely an added bonus, I love that aspect of the game.
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Hehehe, right now I've actually found a dungeon crawler game for android phones (for free no less!) that's got a good story line to it. I'm really enjoying it
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O rly? What's its name?
I've been planning on buying a smartphone, but I still need to read up on a couple of models before trying to chase down the best price/quality one.
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There's a series of these, I'm playing Inotia 3
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I saw it, it looks really cool... And here goes my promise to use this phone only for work. =3=
Now I just need to buy the phone.
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*laugh* XD Best of luck getting work done!
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Haha, thank you!
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Very much so! I was thrown by the new DA layout but changing the size helps a lot, thank you. I'm trying to get in a couple groups too so that will hopefully help. ^---^ I very much appreciate your time
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dA changes layouts as often as I change socks, since I started submitting through sta.sh (this August) it changed three times already.
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oh dear lord, i COMPLETELY agree wth you! I hate it how there's always this one adoptable i wanna get but i just know i can't reproduce it with all of it's colors and markings! ><
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It's the reason why I try to keep my designs interesting but simple. With the occasional burst of craziness.
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Haha, you're welcome.
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I have a question (and I hope I don't sound too stupid for asking). But a lot of people I see have two accounts for their adoptables and I was wondering how this worked. Do you have to make a second email address to do this?
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There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers, used to say my professor. But I'm almost sure he stole that from somebody.
In any case, I simply logged out of my main account, and then registered another one. And yes, they both have the same mail address. (I guess you can use a second one, if you want.)
It's different if you think about sharing your adoptables account with someone, in which case, perhaps it's better to create a new mail address that everyone has access to. Personally I think that shared account are a bit messy (two or more styles of writing/making art, watchers that want to follow just one of the many artists...) but they're a nice group excercise if you have the time and patience to do it.
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