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Published: 2012-06-07 07:00:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 39224; Favourites: 2051; Downloads: 393
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edit : this tutorial has now been redone! Hopefully you will find this more helpful now!And look at how far we've come.
A redo of my original adoptable tutorial, now hopefully a little clearer and prettier LOL
I want to thank all of my watchers, the ones from the very beginning to my very newest. Your support means the world to me.
I want to thank my friends, for encouraging me and helping me out, and I want to thank my inspirations, for helping me to keep on designing.
Most of all, I want to thank two people who fit all three categories.
=LinoleumItalics | *Burscutum
DBT until the end of time ♥
If it weren't for you guys, I would never have started making adoptables. And if it weren't for adoptables, I would never have met you. I'm so happy that both of those things ended up happening.
Anyway, on a less personal note :
If you have any questions, feel free to ask! I'm not a great designer, artist or business person but I HAVE been a part of the adopt community and have sold adopts for a long time.
That's all for now, folks ★
p.s i suggest you check out is this guide to stolen adoptables in order to avoid being scammed :
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After you buy them, you can use the design as a character for stuff like roleplays or original stories uvu
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well i meant how do you give it to them now? ><
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omg god bless your soul for making this tutorial
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Haha that was funny xD The price thing helped me, I was kind of confused about that ^^ Thanks ~~
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[link] I was wondering if the pricing for this adoptable is alright? since I've never made adopts before and I'm not sure if it's an okay price. Do auctions even work if nobody knows you? haha.
Thankyou ;n;
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sorry for late reply ORZ that pricing seems absolutely fine!
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i lub da silly doddles <3 one of my fave parts ! u really good at drawing <3 thanks for the amazing tutorial!!! it really helped!
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Thanks for this tutorial! It's really helpful for me!
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Cool, I can make my own adoptables now!
Before, I didn't know how.
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OMGYISS! I've been looking for a nice little guideline on human adoptables when it comes to pricing and lines and stuff. This is excellent. Good job! (Plus, you're stuff is just amazing anyway).
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This helped a whole lot, thank you ;v;
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Uhmm.. I used to do this a lot on another website a long time ago.. But it got deleted 
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Just paint? Like, that's it??? 'Cause I have a Macbook D:
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nah, it's a free program called Paint Tool Sai, not ms paint
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I FREAKIN LOVE YOU FOR THIS THING. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
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OMG LOL YOU'RE WELCOME
it's a little outdated but I still hope it's helpful for you!
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There's only one thing I never figured out (but everyone else knows q~q) How do you duplicate the base so many times on one page?
Everything else was really helpful!
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Oh, I just copy and paste the base side by side uvu
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I was thinkng about starting adopts this is helpful!!! THANYOU
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awesome! wow and for the pricing, mine take me forever and I do like 5 points O.o time for a price check!
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Question teacher!
I don't get how the money part works. Do people donate to you and that would be the transaction or what?
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Ohh, you need a paypal, then you just give the person buying the adoptable your email (the one you used to create your paypal account) and (assuming they also have a paypal and know how it works)they just send you the money, and then the adoptable is theirs eue
for points they just donate to you, and then you mark the adoptable down as theirs.
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ohh, sounds complicated with the paypal thing. I wonder if some artist just stick to the donation method.
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Thanks, this is brilliant! I'm thinking about making my own adoptables and this really helps!
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That is an awesome idea.. I will do the same, I will print this and use it every time I try making adopts.
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I printed this out and I have it hanging up at my desk. Heh
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actually? omg
I'm ridiculously flattered haha that's so cool!!
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Wait, do you mean we just can't use the bases, we can use our own as long as it isn't similar to yours right?
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Yeah sure LOL i have no problem with you using bases so long as it's not MY base lmao
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Okay, I actually just made my own base, I'll put it up and send you a link so you can decide if its okay or looks to much like yours or something.
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As an adopt buyer, omg yes all of this. Everyone who ever tries to sell adopts should read this.
The only things I'd add are (though I guess these are kind of suggestions for the adoptable etiquette one):
1. Don't be a dick to people who want to pay you actual real life money. I once saw an adoptable I loved from someone, like I had epic character/story ideas immediately kind of thing. I didn't have points or enough money to buy points, and I'd rather support artists instead of dA. They refused to accept money not because they don't have a Paypal or whatever, but so "people who enjoy the characters have a chance to get them". I was pretty offended because obviously I enjoy them if I'm willing to give you real money, but if trying to give you a few real dollars instead of worthless points is that horrible, well, fuck you too. Needless to say I no longer so much as look at their adopts and if people ask about them I don't give a good review.
2. Don't tell people they're not allowed to post the image on other sites. I've seen people flat out say that their adopts are NEVER allowed to be posted ANYWHERE else by the person who bought them even with credit/linking back/signatures not removed, and they've mostly been nice adopts that cost like 100+ points and are worth it. I guess that's not a huge deal for people who can redraw them, but I'm a writer and have to commission art of my characters. That's not actually possible if, for example, I wish to commission art of them on a site that doesn't allow offsite linking or linking to dA or something on that deviation would make it against the rules to link to. Or, you know, the artist takes down the deviation/puts it in "storage" out of nowhere which seems to happen a lot to adopts. :/
3. Don't put ridiculous rules. I can't count how many times I've passed up on adoptables because they've got rules like "if you don't draw it every week forever and put it on dA I will resell it", "if you don't have a full bio, backstory, and reference sheet in a week and draw a minimum of one extra drawing every three months I will resell it", etc. Basically anything that says "if you don't do this stupid requirement I will resell this character out from under you!". Not everyone that buys adopts can draw period or create on a stupid schedule for you.
Also stupid rules like "never ever make kids for this character EVER" drive me nuts. For personal species I understand and respect it, but like some generic wolf or a human or something? Hell no that's not okay.
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Oh god the third coloring my eyes whyyyy
btw great tutorial
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thank you so much for making this, a lot of people need it ; A ;! <333
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this guide is so PERFECT omg can't believe i only saw it now.
All the "no" examples, that's what I do LOL
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but your adoptable actually look good and work well, unlike most peoples u3u you're one of the VERY few I've seen that can pull bright colours off well.
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uwaaah thank you!! to be honest, i prefer seeing adopts with unsaturated colors, but when i draw i only feel like bright colours will work for me u v u
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I've tried to follow this exactly but still have no bids... T^T Tell me what I'm doing wrong... D:
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I have also priced them *much* lower than suggested. Full colour chibis from 55
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Perhaps they weren't 'original' enough or something.. I dunno but I find this tutorial really helpful ^^ And don't worry if you have a hard time selling things, eventually someone will be kind enough to buy :3
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"One adopt per person! !?!? Are you kidding me? People really do that WTF?
Awesome tutorial btw, i like it when tuttor are humorous xD
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Yes actually, indeed, people do that stuff
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