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Sup it's been years I made this, and many things have changed in deviantart since then. This guide does not cover anything added to the website since 2021. I've been out of the adopt scene for a while, so I don't feel like I can cover anything that happened after that - and even in 2021 I wasn't selling adopts anymore. Before asking a question, please check if the guide doesn't answer it.
Also fuck AI. If you're trying to sell AI-made characters, this isn't for you.
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Last updated: March 7, 2021
Changes made: Updated some things and added extra tips here and there. Added "Boards" to the section What is a CYOP/Gacha/Egg/Board/Palette adopt?. Moved the section How should I make a custom adopt? to be under the types of adopt section. Added how to ask for payment in the section What do I do when someone asks to buy an adopt? What do I have to do after it's paid? New additions are marked with a
Small update on March 10: Changed the topic "What sells the most?" to "What are the most common design types?" and changed some of the wordings on it. It was pointed out to me that it could encourage a lack of diversity if people only looked at the title of the topic and the list - something which I never even considered during all of these years. I'm still keeping the "Pale skin" part as to shoot some attention to the fact that about 80% (if not more) of the adopts you see around have pale skin. Draw black people you cowards.
Is this guide not available in your native language? I'm always looking for translation volunteers!
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Note: I try to be as nice as possible many times during this guide, but in some parts I might be a little harsh. Sorry about that, but yeah I gotta speak the truth to help you!
Note²: This is an endless work in progress! Feel free to request anything.
I decided to do it after helping a friend getting started in her adopts account. This will follow the same system as my guide to commissions , meaning it will be updated whenever I get more to add.
Please note that I'm focusing more in character design here! There are other types of adopts that don't include drawings (such as a personality description) but I have no experience with these so I'm not the right person to tell you about them. There are also weapon/objects in general adopts, but not everything here works for these.
- First things first: What even is an adoptable?
To make it simple, adoptables are characters (or objects, or descriptions, or outfits, or any other kind of design you can imagine) made by someone who decided to sell them. They are designs usually made for the sole purpose of being sold. There are adopts of species made by people, adopts made to order (called "customs"), surprise adopts and many other kinds. Later on this guide I'll explain the different kinds of adopts that exist, how they are sold, and many other things.
- Why do people buy adoptables?
This is a pretty common question, and I can understand people outside of the adopt community being confused. "Why would you buy a character when you can make one yourself?", you ask. Well, there are actually many answers. There are people who use characters to write stories, people who can't really draw or design something they like, there's even collectors! Everyone has their own reasons to buy adopts. Sometimes you see an adopt and simply fall in love with it, you want to give them a backstory, you want to draw them/write about them, you just want to feel like that character is yours - and you can do it! You just have to buy them and boom, yours. Your kid now. Go be happy taking care of them.
- How do I get started at adoptables?
Its pretty simple. You basically just need to know how to design something interesting and to draw. You can use some F2U (free to use) or P2U (pay to use) bases if you're not confident about your anatomy yet. You decide what you're going to do; humans, dogs, aliens... It's up to you! Just don't force yourself to do something you don't want to.
Unless you are already have some following (I'd say at least 300 watchers) you should start with something cheap. But, as I always say, DON'T UNDERPRICE YOURSELF. I recommend you to start with outfit adopts: they're very popular and easy to draw. Grab some pictures for inspiration, draw the thing and put it up for sale. Simple! Of course don't forget to put it in a lot of groups. Through this journal we'll explore in detail some of these aspects, so just scroll down and try finding what you want to know about!
- What about the earnings?
The most popular currency at DA is DA Points. However, it's faster to receive via PayPal - the most common currency in this case is american dollars (USD), but it's also common to see euro (EUR). You can accept other payment ways, such as bitcoins, bank deposits and art - but we'll talk about art payments later.
- How do I price?
As for the prices, this is something very personal. You see, it depends on a lot of things. This is what I usually use to decide my prices:
- Flats (-)
- Shaded (+)
- Chibi (-)
- Half body (+/-)
- Full body (+)
- Used a base (-)
- Baseless (+)
- Simple design (-)
- Detailed design (+)
As you can see, the fancier the more expensive. My full body, baseless, shaded and detailed designs are the more expensive ones I do. I charge about 50 USD for one of these. However, for the chibis that aren't shaded, have a simple design and are made with a base I charge about 5 USD, maybe even less. Please note that this is considering my art style. Someone on a higher skill level than me should charge way more than 50 USD for a design like that.
But, again, DON'T UNDERPRICE YOURSELF. I've already given up on buying adopts because the designs were way too cheap, and it didn't really look ok to me to pay that little. If you want to sell things for cheap, do something that is worth cheap. A sketch, a simple, boring design is worth cheap, but that doesn't mean someone will buy it - it's boring! And cheap! And they it's not even well done! Even my mother can "design" something like this. People don't want simple and boring characters, they want something unique to use in their stories, to be their lovely OC! So maybe the best thing to do would be to put some effort in what you're doing.
- Ok, I've made my first design and it's up to sale! But... Nobody came to claim it yet. What do I do???
You probably didn't advertise it enough. My favorite thing about DA is that we have groups in which we can advertise everything we do. However, you need to know that 20, 30 groups isn't enough. For me this is the wort part: you need to advertise in at least 50 groups, I'd recommend almost 100. Yes, it can be boring, but the money is worth it. Try joining groups that have more than 1k members, and don't put your adopts only in adoptables/commissions groups. Your design is anthro? Nice! Put it in an anthro group. Is it cute? Put it in a cute group! There's a huge variety of groups, put your adopts in all the groups it fits. But don't forget to follow the group's rules! As a group admin I can say that we have a lot of problems with people that don't read our rules - even though they're in a very visible place in our page. If you only plan to use groups for adopts, the easiest way to keep track of their rules is to only join groups that allow adopts - that way you don't risk having it rejected.
However, I have to be honest with all of you here. The reason your adopt isn't being sold may also be because the art is not worth the price you put in it, could also be that your design isn't appealing enough. But don't give up! There's a lot of adopt types (I'll list them on the two topics below) and some of them get sold quicker than others.
- How does an auction work? What is a set price/fixed price /OTA/NYP/DTA/WTA adopt??
- Set price/fixed price:
- Set price (also known as fix or fixed price) adopts are the most common ones. As the name says, you set a price (let's say U$15/1500
) and this is the price, like the price of a shirt in a store. The buyer may try to lower the price, and as the seller you have the right to accept/decline it. It's actually quite rare for people to try to lower the price, though.
- A set price adopt batch example
- Auctions:
- Auctions are, after set prices, the most common kind of adopts. You have 3 things: SB, MI, and AB.
- SB: Starting bid. The minimum value you'll sell the adopt for. I don't recommend putting the SB as an amount you wouldn't be happy to get, as you have no guarantee people will fight to the death of their wallets over your adopt.
- MI: Minimum increase/increment. The minimum amount the bidder needs to add to the previous given bid. For example, someone bidded 10 USD and the MI is 1 USD. If I want this adopt I need to bid at least 11 USD in the bidding chain. A MI isn't always necessary, and it's value is usually 1-2 USD/100-200
- AB: Auto buy. By paying this amount the buyer can skip all the bidding and get the adopt immediately, as if it were a set price. The AB commonly gets an extra piece of art. The value is usually very high - let's say about 3 or 5 times the SB value. It isn't needed either, but highly recommended. You may put more than one AB (AB 1 and AB 2, 3...) to more options of extra art.
- Auctions should have an end date and some bidding rules. I'll talk later about the usual rules, but for auctions something essential is to keep the bidding chain (one bidder replies to the previous bidder's bid - "reply to the highest bid". So if I comment like "10 USD!" the next person has to reply to my comment so I get a notification and all of that) and to have the payment in hands - as I'll talk about in the rules topic. The auction can last 24h, a week, 5 days... It's up to you. I recommend it to be X amount of time after the first bid is given, but of course you can set it to be X amount of time after you posted the deviation. Remember to put your timezone and that the auction may end earlier with AB. And remember! During daylight saving time your timezone changes name, so like Brasília time is usually BRT, but during daylight savings time it becomes BRST.
- An auction adopt batch example
- OTA:
- Offer To Adopt. Please don't mistake it for NYP (the following topic), they're very different things. In an OTA, you get to choose what to accept: money, points, art, custom adopts, etc. An OTA should NEVER take only money currencies! Otherwise this is just a masked auction or a NYP. OTAs are pretty popular as people who don't have money can offer art for the character. Just like auctions, you can let it open for a certain amount of time and at the end of it chose the winner, but you can also end it earlier if you receive an offer you really like. Personally, I don't have good experiences with OTAs since most of the offers I got weren't anything I'd like (my designs at the time weren't that good tho). For these, I recommend you to put in more than 100 groups if you're really expecting to get some good art. OTAs can have AB and a minimum amount of money you'd be up to taking - sometimes it can turn into an auction, so keep the "if you're only offering money, reply to the highest bid" rule here.
- An OTA adopt example
- NYP:
- Name Your Price. Not an auction, but also not a set price. You can have a minimum amount you'd accept and a minimum amount to get extra art, but you're going to accept the first offer that comes - even if it's the minimum amount. Otherwise this will turn into a masked auction, which isn't nice. You can also add options for extra art - either separated (just like you'd do in a set price adopt) or included in the price ("offers of U$X or more get extra art!").
- A NYP adopt batch example
- DTA:
- Draw To Adopt. Like a contest, people will draw the adopt and the one who draws it better according to your judgement will get the character - and the right to use all the art of the other contestants. Unlike the other types, a DTA doesn't involve any kind of currency. Usually people do it as a celebration for something or as a way to get more popularity. The adopt maker often puts some rules such as only allowing finished/colored art, but there are some people who put no rules at all.
- I don't have DTA adopts in my gallery and the only one I joined got removed from DA so here's the first one that came up when I searched for DTA adopt
- WTA:
- Write To Adopt. Perhaps the rarest adopt type, I don't recall seeing more than five of those. Like in DTA, the owner decides who gets the adopt + all the other works made with them. The adopt maker may put some limitations such as a word limit and a theme.
- I don't have any examples of WTA adopts in my gallery nor know any good ones.
- What is a CYOP/Gacha/Egg/Board/Palette adopt?
- These are all adopt types unrelated to payment method. So, you can have a OTA and CYOP adopt, for example. Your adopt doesn't need to be any of those, it can just be a regular adopt.
- CYOP:
- CYOP stands for Choose Your Own Palette, those adopts are basically a lineart which the owner decides the colors. You can have the coloring set in the price (the buyer tells you the colors and you color it) or you can charge a bit to do it, but the owner still chooses the colors - unless they want it to be a surprise. If you're charging more to add coloring and the buyer opts to color it by themselves, it'd be nice to give them a .psd or transparent .png file so they can paint it themselves.
- An extra personal opinion/advice would to make more detailed designs for those. Since you can't put any patterns/textures or use any color combination on the adopt, you'll have to add appeal with details to make the design interesting.
- Some (pretty bad) CYOP adopt examples in the top of this batch
- Gacha:
- Gacha, gachapon, gasha or gashapon adopts are, as the name says, inspired by gacha machines - that ones you put a coin in and get a surprise toy in a capsule. They're really diverse, and for some reason some people do 100% custom adopts through these - which doesn't really make sense for obvious reasons. You can offer different options - 100% surprise, owner chooses gender and species, etc. These are really fun to do and are awesome for indesisive people (Like me! I like getting gachas sometimes, it's fun for when you only know one or very few traits for the character you want - like gender or species). Gacha adopts are commonly cheap and made with chibi bases, but can be baseless and more expensive too.
- A cheap gacha example
- Egg:
- Egg adopts, as gachas, have many variations. Some people allow the owner to chose gender, species and such and then will do a design based on the egg, but I'd say that the true egg adopts already have something "inside" them. If the design is already finished it's not rare to have some information about it in the description, such as gender and species. Personally, I draw the characters first and design/post the eggs after, this way the egg "hatches" automatically after being bought. They're also called "Mystery Eggs" and can be made in shapes other than Eggs. I recall someone doing mystery potion adopts once, they followed the same principles as an egg adopt.
- Mystery egg adopts example
- Board:
- I'm calling them "board adopts" here because there's quite a few types: moodboard, inspboard, aesthetic board, it goes on - though the one you'll see 90% of the time are aesthetic boards. The seller posts a board of images (usually nine) and the adopt is made inspired by them. A board adopt is similar to egg and gacha adopts, as in they can be fully a surprise or can be somewhat customized. If hte design is fully a surprise it's not rare to have a sillouette of it by the side of the board.
- Board adopts started to get popular as I was leaving the adopt community so I don't have any examples I made myself.
- Palette:
- I remember hearing a while ago that some people were selling only the palettes, but this isn't how it's done. Basically, you put some palettes for sale and then design a character with it with the characteristics the buyer asks for. To be honest I have never made or bought any of these, they aren't very popular. You can do it a 100% custom or offer different options like in a gacha.
- I don't have any samples of palette adopts in my gallery nor know any good ones.
- How should I make a custom adopt?
- Species
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Physical age (Remember that a character can be a 472 years old vampire that looks like they're 35!)
- Body shape
- Skin color
- Scars/tattoos/birthmarks
- Hairstyle/color
- Facial characteristics
- Theme
- Color palette
- Clothing
- Accessories
- Details
As for the pricing, it should be more expensive than your regular adopts due to the work of having to design something. You can also offer different styles as you'd do with a fullbody commission, such as flat colored, cell shaded and such.
- What is an advent calendar? How do I make one?
Advent calendars are common around holidays (such as christmas, new years and halloween) and all characters have a common theme. So in a halloween-themed advent calendar you'd expect to see some spooky themed characters, winter with snowy themes, etc. Not rarely advent calendars will be combined with palette adopts and other combinations. For closed species it is quite common to have multiple artists working on the adopts for the calendar - that way it can get done quicker and there'll be great variation between the characters.
The calendars don't necessarily need to be a full month, they can be a week, 15 days, 12 days, whatever you like. The adopts remain secret to your followers (except the buyers) until it's their day. As with gacha adopts, sometimes they can be fully customizable. Sometimes they get discounts while in their "mystery form" - so let's suppose I make an advent calendar and you want one that will be revealed on the 23rd, and today is the 21st. You'd probably be able to get a discount on it as it's still a secret design. But make sure to check the artists info! Not everyone offers discounts and that's ok!!
I personally only have experience with one week-long advent calendars, so here's my template if you want it, with some ideas of what you can say on it. Each color is a layer, and each day has it's own text layer for maximum customization. No need to credit me, just don't say you made it yourself haha
- What is a YCH? What is the difference between F2U/P2U bases and YCHs?
YCH stands for Your Character Here. It is like a base that someone makes and then sells as an adopt: the winner(s) have their character(s) drawn by the artist in that base. YCHs are commonly made in auctions, with the lower bids getting flat colored art while higher bids get shaded versions or even other versions with different clothing, though they can also be made like set priced adopts with extra options. Sometimes YCHs will be unlimited or have more than one slot available - so more than one person can win.
The difference between a YCH and a F2U/P2U base is that the artist that made the YCH is going to draw the character in the base for the buyer, and a F2U/P2U base you buy, download and draw on it yourself.
- What do I do when someone asks to buy an adopt? What do I have to do after it's paid?
Usually when people want to get an adopt they'll comment stuff like "I'd like to take it!", "Can I have it?" or "I'd like to get this character, please!". Now that you learned from the previous topics what the different kinds of adopts are, let's put in a list what to do, so that it's easier to find what you're looking for. I've also added suggestions on what you can say, in case you're still a bit lost or don't know English too much and the guide isn't in your native language/the translation isn't updated:
- If you're taking more than one currency (usually dA points and PayPal) be sure to ask the buyer what currency they'd like to use. My usual go to is to simply ask "Points or PayPal?", and the more polite version "Would you like to pay with Points or PayPal?". After that they'll answer your question and then you can tell them how to pay - with points people usually receive through the commissions section of the shop tab on their profile page and with PayPal the safest way to you to receive your payments is via an invoice, so you'll need to ask for their PayPal email address.
- If you have options with extra art (mentioned on the topic "What are the extra options you put into your adopts?" down below) be sure to ask if they'd like to get extra art. I usually ask "Would you like to get any extra art?" or something like that. If you wanna be pushy you can say "Would you like to get extra art of this adopt for a discounted price?" . If you offer multiple extra options like I do and the buyer says they'd like an extra but don't specify which option ask "Would you like to get Option X or Option Y?".
- If it's an adopt batch and they don't specify which character they want, just try not to get mad and say something in the lines of "Which character are you looking to buy? This is a batch, currently [all / only 5 / 1 and 3 / 6, 12, 13, 214 and 320 / whatever] is/are open to sale." if it looks like they thought that was the price for all the characters in the batch you can add "The price stated is per adopt, so I need to know how many you'd like to take to calculate the final price.". Sometimes people just don't read shit or just don't know how adopts work. You gotta deal with that.
- When an auction ends you go to the highest bidder (assuming there was no AB) and just do as you'd usually do with a set priced adopt. You can start with a "Congrats, you won the auction!", and from there ask stuff for the payment.
- When an adopt is Auto Bought you, again, just do as you'd normally do with a set priced adopt. It's always great to say "Thanks for the AB!" because, you know, usually they're pretty expensive. Not needed, but indeed makes you sound more friendly.
- If it's a gacha or egg adopt and you don't have the design done yet (I assume a small amount of people have a stock of 100% surprise gacha/egg adopts done, but surely not everyone) collect payment normally and give them an estimation of when it should be finished, even if it's already written somewhere. "Thanks for buying! Your character will be finished in about [2 weeks / a month / 3 days / whatever]. I'll let you know if I need more time." This last part is important, mostly because if it gets past your estimative and they don't hear from you they may think you're scamming them. If you said you were going to take 2 days to finish it and it's the night of day 2 and you don't have it done yet, send them a note with a new "deadline". You don't need to explain yourself if you don't want to, just saying you were busy or had personal problems should be more than enough.
- If it's a YCH, be sure to ask for enough character references. If you can't see important details well enough on the references they give to you, just ask "Sorry, I can't really see [important detail] in this [screenshot / picture / drawing], do you have any more references I can use?" if you're ok with it, you can also add "If you don't have any it's ok, a written description would be enough.". As almost always, receive payment as per usual.
- If it's an OTA, do as in an auction, just pick your winner and receive payment normally. If it's an art payment it's probably going to work like in a commission, where you say what you'd like to get and they draw for you - in this case follow the artist's instructions.
- For DTA and WTA adopts I can't say much, as I've never hosted such an event. From what I see people usually make a journal and put the winner + all the other art/writing in there. From what I saw it's also common to make a bit of a statement as to why you've chosen that particular piece.
- To ask to receive point payments you can say "Please pay here: [LINK TO YOUR COMMISSIONS PAYMENT HERE].". If you don't want to/can't withdrawal your earnings to PayPal later, you can say "Please pay in the donations widget in my profile page." or, if you don't have it, "Please send the payment as a gift in my profile page".
- To ask to receive PayPal payments and you use invoices, you can say "Please send me your PayPal email address in a note so I can send you an invoice.". If you don't use invoices (which I DO NOT recommend as it puts you on a risk of a forced chargeback) you can say "Please send U$X to this email: EMAIL[AT]SAMPLE.COM". For safety reasons, always ask for emails and inform your email only through notes.
And now to what to do after it's paid. I don't suggest doing any of this before receiving payment. You don't need to do any of these, they're all optional - except the last one, for fuck's sake!!
- I DO NOT RECOMMEND SENDING THE BUYER UNWATERMARKED VERSIONS OR .SAI/.PSD FILES. The only exception for the last one would be a CYOP adopt the buyer is going to color, but I still recommend merging your signature/watermark to the lineart so it's harder to remove.
- If the size of the image you've uploaded to dA is smaller than the actual size of it, it would be nice to send via sta.sh the original .png/.jpg file. Sta.sh is DeviantArt's cloud storage system, it allows you to upload your files and send the link of it to the buyer. Usually the link is sent via note. People sometimes just send the file directly to the email of the buyer .
- Sending the file directly via email is also a safety thing for PayPal, but people rarely do this (I don't either). If someone buys something from you via PayPal and proceeds to get a "forced refund", you can show PayPal you've actually delivered the product properly by sending the file to the PayPal email address of the buyer.
- If the adopt is NSFW by dA's standard and you want to send a file of this adopt to the buyer for whatever reason, don't use sta.sh. Sta.sh goes with the same rules as dA, and you could get your account blocked even if no one besides you sees it. For those cases I suggest Dropbox or OneDrive - avoid using sites that dA blocks such as Hentai Foundry.
- If the adopt comes from an adopt batch it's also good to send them a version with only the one they bought. If they buy more than one from the same batch it's still a good thing to send them each one separately.
- Mark the adopt as closed/sold, this is optional but helps keeping things organized. If you're feeling nice remove it from all adopt groups you put it in. It's also great to have a folder in you gallery with only closed adopts, this way it's not only more organized, but potential buyers can also see how many adopts you've sold in the past - thus coming to the conclusion that you're reliable.
- If the buyer asked for extra art just (Seriously, don't keep them waiting. Unless you have real life stuff you need to do or commissions/other extras/other custom adopts that were paid before, make that your priority. Try not to become one of those people with a 2 meters long to-do list of paid shit - think about your reputation!)
- What are the most common design types?
Again, I'm going to be very honest with you here. I've noticed some time ago that there is some kind of "formula" for the types of adopts that you see around more often. There's also almost always some sort of trend going on as for style, and depending on the time of the year some types of adopts are more common than others (if you've been in the adopt community during MerMay you know what I'm talking about.). This is not something you should follow for every single design you make if you're looking to be unique - everyone is tired of being things from this list over and over again. I'd actually say that if you want to stand out you should avoid using too many things from this list in your designs.
- For humanoids:
- Kemonomimi
- Fantasy
- Cute
- Female
- Pale skin
- Thin
- Pastels
- Chibi
- KAWAII DESU EYES/COLORING
- For animals:
- Long tail
- Fantasy
- Dogs/Cats/Wolves/Foxes
- Cute
- Pastels
- FLUFF
- KAWAII DESU EYES/COLORING
- For outfits:
- Whatever is currently trending irl
- Fantasy
- Loooong dresses
- Typically female clothing
- Cute
- Harajuku fashion in general
Some other common features are insanity (??), food themes (especially for animals) and sexy females (big boobs. And butts. And shitty armor/almost no clothes at all). I'll admit that even I do some of these sometimes - I draw mostly female designs - but keep in mind that just because those are common characteristics it doesn't mean your adopts will get sold immediately if you use them.
Actually, I'd say to avoid some of those things or, if you're drawing only these, to try something different once in a while. I've been searching for a Victorian-themed male adopt for years and every time I see one of these it's sold - it's something uncommon after all! You can also take advantage of those "rarer" characteristics and make a niche of your own - people looking for that specific kind of design are much more likely to buy adopts from you more than once.
- What are the extra options you put into your adopts?
Extras are something very versatile and good to the new owner of the character. I usually offer two options: the first one is a full or half body drawing of the character and the second is the same, but with a custom outfit. This is nice because if the owner wants to change something in the character they can have it from the same artist that designed the adopt, making it a better reference. This is also nice if the owner wants to save some money, since the extra prices are usually cheaper than the commission prices.
- What should be my adopts rules?
This again something very personal. The base rules should be something that protect you, such as "no refunds". There should also be some information about holds and resells/trades/gifts. Here are mine (feel free to copy and use it!) :
- ♡ By buying something from me, you're accepting my commission guidelines !
♡ Holds only for up to a week;
♡ Payment must be sent 24 hours after claiming the adopt, otherwise it'll be open again.
♡ After buying, the owner:
♡ Can change the design as they want.
♡ Must credit me for the character at least once!
♡ Can give/trade.
♡ Can resell for the same or lower price than brought (includes the price of other commissions you might have bought using this character)
The "you're accepting my commission guidelines" is a good trick because it shortens the amount of things you need to put in this list.
Due to some past problems, I really recommend you to put something about underage customers having parental concern to buy things from you. I've heard of a "scammer" that was going on which was underage and used their father's credit card to buy art without his concern.
When sending a PayPal invoice, remember to put some of these in your "terms and conditions" - specially the underage buyers one. Put all of them on the TOS-ish section and the more important ones on the "notes to the customer"-ish section. I remember learning all of this from a guide, but I can't seem to find it anywhere... this will be updated if I ever find such journal.
- What is an original species? How do I create one?
THIS WILL FOREVER BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
I feel like I could make a whole journal just for this one, but since my experience with those is mostly from a viewer and not from a maker/buyer it doesn't feel right to do so.
An original species is a species created by someone. They can be humanoids, animals or even something entirely new. They can be a "open species" or "closed species". In an open species anyone is free to create a character of that species. In a closed species however only the owner and very few hand picked people get to design characters of that species. My focus here will be the closed species, since they're the ones that generate most money - of course, you can sell adopts of an open species you created, but closed species are more likely to be sold due to their "exclusivity".
On a closed species, only the person who created this species can create/sell designs, unless they give other specific people a permission or a MYO slot (if you don't know what's a MYO, simply scroll to the topic below). Usually closed species have traits - common, uncommon, rare, very rare, legendary, mutation and such - and most of the times these trains will define how expensive the character will end up as. Most of the "cooler" traits are in the higher rarity ranks, as less people will be able to obtain them - the rarer a trait is the more expensive a character with them will be. So a character with only "Legendary" rank traits will be much more expensive than a character with only "Common" rank traits.
Creating an original species is easy, but creating a good and unique species is hard. The most important thing in an original species is the design (backstory is important too but most buyers don't seem to care) so you should put some thought on it. The best thing is to have something in the design that immediately makes you recognize that the character is from that species, like a Xynthii 's eye, that can have many different traits but the same base. Some other species have this same eye (and there's a lot of drama around it) but it's a trait most definitely "claimed" by Xynthii, therefore this is what they're reminded/recognized for.
Some things to avoid during the creation of a closed species:
- Highly basing you species in someone else's. Besides being extremely unoriginal, your species will be forever marked as a generic of X species, without mentioning all the drama you'll get into. Of course, some people like the idea of a "rip-off" of a popular closed original species because they allow people with less money to own a character similar to those of the popular species, but in my opinion I don't think its worth all the drama.
- Having the most important traits on the species being hidden, such as tattoos that get under the characters' clothes or psychological trais. Even though these are nice, people won't ever be able to recognize the character is from your species unless there's a more visual trait that is always shown. If you don't care about recognition go ahead though.
- Making so many traits you don't even remember all of them. As the creator of a species, you should know what you're doing. Making a lot of traits not only will make you confused but will also make other people confused. Keep things simple, and remember that to have a unique species all characters must have something in common. Good examples of that are Mantibab 's and Cinnadogs ' anatomy, which are unique and shared by all characters of the species, even though some traits are different from character to character.
Now the things I personally think you shouldn't do:
- KEMONOMIMI SPECIES. These are SO HARD to be original. We see kemonomimis everywhere, and they're all the same. Changing the inside of their ears won't make them more original, neither adding a backstory: buyers care more for the design than everything else.
- Food themes. After the Sushi Dogs gained that much popularity, many people have followed Briochienne 's "secret formula", which seems to be animal + food themes + eyes always closed. Many species follow these rules, some changing to food theme for something else. You can still clearly see they were based on Sushi Dogs, though. It's just a theme we're bored to see.
- What is a MYO?
MYO means Make Your Own. It's something an owner from a closed species does to let people create their own character of this species. MYO slots can be for free (usually in a contest, in which the winners get to keep their character) or paid (with a base price for only common traits, sometimes few free rare traits and/or a charge for rare traits). MYOs are nice if you don't have money to buy the adopts or to order a custom (they're usually cheaper than both, depending on the artist's popularity). Some species owners allow the trading/selling of MYO slots, so even if there isn't any MYO event going on or there's no MYO tickets for sale you might still be able to get one.
- Wait.. but like... can't I just create by myself a character from a closed species without the owner knowing it??
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. It's disrespectful. And also the owner may actually have actual real legal trademark over it. Did you know sushi dogs are trademarked? Do you want to spend money with a lawyer for creating a food-themed dog character with closed eyes and a swirly bandana?? Also. The drama.
Just don't. Someone may do this to you? Yes. Good luck, I don't know how to deal with this kind of stuff - who do you think I am, some sort of adopt expert? lol
- And can't people steal designs?? Someone could just reupload my adopt and use as their OC! Or even sell it!
It happens all the time. Just sign it. The more popular you are the more likely it is to happen. This thing we do is based on trust: trust that people will pay you, trust that they won't chargeback, trust that they won't just use the character without paying for it. People also resell a single character multiple times to scam others. It's a risk, but hey it's worth it in my opinion.
- How do trades for adopts/art payments work?
Adopt "trades" can mean many things actually; you can be trading designs (like you give a character to a person and they give you another character) you can trade a design for art, a custom for a custom and so it goes. My thing about those is: be careful about who you trade with, and, if required, do your part.
Many people will offer art as payment for adopts they can't afford. Accepting it depends on you, but only give them the rights of the character or the bigger file once they finish what they promised to do. If they don't, send them reminders (don't do it too often, though!) and, if too many time has passed (maybe 1 month? Depends on your patience) tell them kindly that if they don't finish it you're going to sell it to someone else/put the adopt open again.
Before accepting art payment from someone you don't know, google their username like "zeryuo scammer". If they happen to not finish their part on trades, its very likely someone already made a journal warning people about it. Also, check their profile page carefully. Do you see a lot of hate comments? A blocked list? A "people you shouldn't trust" or a big "people who owe me art" list? If you do, be careful! Those are huge warning signs that yell "don't trade with this person!"
I think I got a bit out of topic on this one but hey, take care, that's the message!
- What are some DON'Ts of adopts?
This is mostly some pet peeves of mine, but still. Some of these are just... please don't.
- "No collectors!"/"You MUST use the design otherwise I'll take it back from you without a refund!!1"
- I've seen many people only selling adopts if the new owner promises to use them (collectors most of time don't) and this is something very, very silly. You see, you're like the owner of a store. You can't sell someone a dress only if they promise to use it! Also, taking back isn't nice. Even if the person who bought it is now inactive, it's none of your business! If they paid, it's theirs. Same thing if they just paid for the adopt and one day later they deleted their account - if they ordered extra art, do it anyways. It'd be rude not to do something you were paid to.
- I'd say this can be reasonable only if it's a free adopt. But, still, I don't like the idea of taking back just because the person didn't use them - people have more to do with their lives other than just draw/write.
- "You can't change the design!"
- Again, it's none of your business what the new owner does to the adopt. You have no idea how many times I've given up on an adopt just because of this! Giving a personal touch to a character is something many people like to do, and being unable to do this just makes us give up. The character has blue hair and I'd like it to be orange? Who cares! I want to change everything at the design? This is rare, but hey, who cares! If I change the design too much I'm actually just paying you for nothing - I could've drawn it myself and instead I'm choosing to pay you just for the base design.
- I'd open an exception of these for closed species, in this case I recommend putting "if you want to change the design please only do so with my approval" or something like this, to avoid people getting rare traits or free.
- "This is an OTA - I'M ONLY ACCEPTING POINTS/PAYPAL!"
- No, this isn't an OTA. This is a masked auction. I hate this. It bothers me so much that I made a topic just about these, scroll down a little to find it.
- "Auction ends whenever I feel like it"
- Um, no??? That sounds like you're expecting someone - maybe a friend - to bid and win. Even if you aren't, please don't do it; it's rude.
- "You MUST watch me to adopt this character!"
- Ruuuude. Very rude. I'd say this is only acceptable for free/raffle adopts. Otherwise this is just a silly way to get more watchers/attention. People are there for the design, not for the person who made it. If they like your art they are going to watch you anyways.
- Using ridiculous watermarks. Seriously, don't. Some people fill their adopts with their username (like writing it several times in black or white and then just putting it all over the character with like 50% opacity) and that's VERY annoying. Yes, I know, you don't want to have your adopts stolen, but I want to see the adopt! I want to know what that is, and I can't do it if your username is all over it! Just use a simple watermark or sign it. Seriously, people who steal adopts want easy money, redoing all the lining and coloring just to erase your watermark/signature is too much work!
- What are those "masked auctions" you've spoken of?
I've never really seen anyone talking about those, but this is something that bothers me a lot. You see, as I explained before, OTAs shouldn't accept only money currencies, otherwise they go against what OTAs are meant to be. "But why do you get so pissed off with this??" Because OTAs attract more attention than any other kind of adopt. Why? Because they give people the opportunity to pay with other things than money, which isn't something everyone has. So, as I said before, you're actually doing just an auction under the name of OTA when accepting only money. And this isn't nice! You're lying to people when you do this. This is the same thing as announcing requests and actually doing only commissions.
I never saw this happen to NYP, but, basically, as I also said before, in a NYP you take the first offer that comes, otherwise this won't be a NYP, but an auction.
In summary, it's fucking rude. Don't do it.
That's it so far folks! This guide receives updates about 2-4 times a year. I haven't been active on the adopts community for a while now, but feel free to leave questions in the comments and I'll try my best to answer them. If you somehow ask something I don't know how to answer I still have friends doing adopts that I can consult if needed. I've highlighted some questions below that I think may be useful for other people but didn't make to the guide yet. Good luck and have fun! o/
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It's not dumb! I actually should put something about these on the guide, I completely forgot this was a thing haha
Usually when an adopt is on hold it means someone asked to buy it, but doesn't have the money at the moment so the artist is holding it for them, kind of a reservation. So let's say I made an adopt that costs U$30, but you only have U$15, but you know for sure you'll have U$30 by Tuesday. You ask me to hold it for you until Tuesday and I say that's ok. So you have until then to pay for the adopt - and if someone asks me to buy it, I say it's on hold so it can't be sold until Tuesday.
An adopt that is on hold isn't completely out of reach for other buyers, it's kind of a mid point between being open and being sold. On the former scenario, if it's Wednesday and I hear nothing from you, the adopt would be open again - and if someone asked to get it while it was on hold, it would probably be sold to them. Usually holds are for a short period of time, I don't think I've ever seen someone do holds for longer than a week. It's also not rare for people to not do holds, so be aware of it if you're looking to get an adopt on hold for you.
I ended up writing too much aaa i hope it helps! Let me know if I missed something!
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Hello, if someone buys my adopt, can i ever use it again?
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Once it's sold it belongs to who bought it, so you don't own it anymore to sell it again. That would be considered a scam.
If you just want to draw the adopt again it would be better to ask permission of the current owner.
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That would be awesome! Feel free to translate it, it would be very helpful
How do you say "French translation in progress" in french so that i can put it in the top of the journal?
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If you're up to it that'd be great!
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Someone else has already volunteered through a note, if you want to work together to save time I can contact them~
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Oh well it seems like the other person is too busy with their personal life and has gave up the translation. If you're still up to you can translate it though!
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Great! You'll help a lot
Can you tell me how to say "Spanish translation in progress!" In Spanish so I can put at the top of the journal?
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Traducción al español en progreso
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I totally agree with the whole "Once the adopt is payed for it belongs to them, Taking back the character with no refund is rude" even though I used to be this way when I first started making adopts.... still not sure why I thought it was a good idea XD Oof Though, I still have a "character revoke" in place but it's only if closed or semi-open species rules are broken which, in my personal opinion, is fair to a degree. Not everyone may agree but it's my opinion
Overall I'm glad I changed my adopt T.O.S up a ton (with lots of adopt research of course) though I still have some work to do on it lol, I'll get there eventually.
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Thank you for this, I'm new to the whole art adoptables community, and I am also a terrible artist who does drawings like a 5 year old (I'm trying to improve, I swear!)
Creative Writing is my forte, if only there was such a demand for writing like there is for art.. I could actually make money from the ideas in my head!
I'm such a creative person and so envious of all the amazing digital artists. I love to colour line-art digitally and on paper, but I don't think there is such a demand for a "colouring" service, is there? I'm talking more advanced colouring than just using the fill tool btw
But to my point! (see, as a writer I got the curse of over-writing and writing someones eyes out with text!) I love to RP and my brain has so many ideas for OC's, and I have quite a few character sheets of my characters written already (I just got my toyhou.se code a few days ago - I had nowhere to organise my write ups before this) but I've struggled to improve my visual art for 15 (FIFTEEN!) years and it still sucks, I still don't have any custom art or OCs of my own. It has been hard for me to travel through the art communities with all this lingo that was foreign to me. I love how you took the time to break everything down into "Adopts for Dummies" style.. I also appreciate the humor and that you spiced it up with your own no-holds-bared opinions as well.
I now understand more from this one post than I did reading posts all day about it.
I've also been searching all day for a bone.. my idea for my persona and idea for a very special OC I want "created" is BURSTING out of my head.. I can't afford to pay in RL currencies and I can't offer art trade either because no one would want my crap.. Am I hopeless? Is it possible to "get lucky" and find an artist that I would bond with enough that they could do a good job creating based on my ideas -- with hardly anything but writing to offer?
I guess I did get lucky to find a free unused toyhou.se code after trying to find one over many many months.. but, really people get them for free so the fact they are so hard to come by boggles me in the first place.
Anyways wow.. Do you have ideas for me that might help me find the right artist to work with me? Like, I know in the art world you get what you pay for, but isn't inspiration and idea worth something anymore? My persona is very important to me, and the OC I have in mind is based on my RL rescue dog who is like a son to me. These are important characters that I just can't go to anyone with..
What services or offers have you seen people make that are A) Poor and B) not good at visual art? I feel my writing skills, communication skills and creativity are worth something but how can I convince others of that?
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Hey there! I'm the one with the writing commissions Zery mentioned.
It's possible to get lucky, but as you said, it requires luck. Lots of artists are EXTREMELY picky about having others write their characters unless they absolutely can't do it themselves; I've even seen some folks get insulted over such an offer. (Though that's their problem, not really yours.) I mean, I've attempted writing-for-art trades in the past, but they've been resoundingly unsuccessful because this market is so visual in nature. For some reason, writing has a rock-bottom value to most artists, and even the people who whine forever about not being able to write will try it themselves before daring to outsource the project.
"But isn't inspiration and idea worth something anymore?" I am sorry to break this to you, but in this market, I'm afraid not. People want to be compensated for their effort. If you can't give money, and you don't have anything that the artist really finds appealing (if they're even willing to accept a trade), you might be... kind of out of luck. If you try to offer something an artist doesn't have a demand for, that's on par with making a straight-up free request. Requests often end in people being ridiculous, shut down, or ignored. They are viewed as an annoyance. Failing all else, you can make an interest thread and hope someone bites or is willing to help (praise be to that generous soul), but most people will see it as a request and might ignore it.
If you want to break into the writing commissions market, there's a few groups you can submit your commission information to (one is Writing-Commissions, I think?), though I find they're not really active and you don't get much unless you're willing to write smut, fandoms, something really wild, or all of the above. I recommend a base rate of $10 for each 1k words, because that's what you'll see for most folks with a reasonable quality-cost balance. Failing that, I recommend the freelancer sites like Upwork and Guru. (Freelancer.com is 80% rubbish and scams. I generally avoid it.) If you land a ghostwriting job there, you can score some pretty nice money.
By the way, I noticed the mention of a coloring service... it's a bit niche, but yes, I'd say there is a demand for that! Look around and you might find something. Also of note are bases people have that lend themselves well to coloring and designs. You might be able to sell some adopts with those.
I hope this makes sense and I didn't get too bitter, haha. I've had more success with music commissions than writing commissions, which... says something, alright.
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Thank you SOOO much! This was a great help, I've bit the bullet and just been opening my art program more to practise, so maybe one day I can do an art-for-art trade.. or possibly be good enough to sell adopts. I'm trying to think of a way to incorporate my poetry into visual art, but so far I've not had much luck coming up with a good idea.
The holidays are fast approaching and I am crossing my fingers that I stumble on someone giving away a free commision for the holidays.. Never quite know what will be found on dA that's for sure.
As example, I tried for months to find a working toyhou.se code in various places online that was free of charge, and I didn't have any luck at all, they were either all claimed, part of a contest I didn't win, or people were charging currency or art for the invite codes. Then someone suggested that I should look for them on dA journals.. I headed over here right away and it took me less than an hour to finally accomplish my goal and I found a working code for free!! (ha, sometimes it's really small things that excite me) So we never know, right?
I'm quite motivated about brushing up on my colouring and hopefully at the same time learn how to draw decently, especially digitally. I so wish that short-story writers and poets had such an easy time marketing their work for profit.. I wish drawing was one of the things that I learn quickly, usually I excel at things I put my mind to but this art journey has definitely been a challenge!
Thanks for taking the time to give me your thoughts and thanks again Zeryuo for opening up the topic!!
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After spending the whole day translating this to Portuguese it makes me so happy to know that you found it so useful, thank you! To make it easier to answer to your question(s?), let me break it into parts:
- As for coloring, there actually is some sort of demand. I remember a while back seeing here in DA a drawing someone only colored, and it was for a Marvel contest - they were looking for colorists for theirs comics. Fucking MARVEL!! If you're really good at it you can work for companies/people like that. At a lower/easier level, you could probably offer to work for people making webcomics, as coloring takes a huuge amount of time.
- As for the character, I can see many options:
- The first would be to make it yourself and improve it as you improve your skills, kind of like making them your muse. At first it'll suck because they won't look like you thought they'd look. But as your skills grow it'll only get better and better, closer and closer to what you first intended. But it takes some time, so I can understand why you wouldn't want this (just remember that we all start at the bottom! Don't run away from practicing!).
- Second option would be to try to make a trade with someone. There are people that can draw, people that can write and some very few lucky fuckers who can do both. Since they're few, there's a chance someone out there is looking for someone to write their story. If you prove yourself as a good writer and as someone that is able to understand their characters, it's likely that they would trade whit you. You could also make a journal titled something like "Trading writing commissions for a custom adopt!" and put it into a TON of groups to advertise it. Tip: some groups allow you to post journals in the group page, not just in the gallery. You could take advantage of that!
- Third option is to take writing commissions. I know someone who does these, I could ask her about it or ask her if she's up to talking to you about it. I have no idea how they work, how to price them or how much they sell, but there probably is someone else out there for a guide for those. I think.
- Fourth option is to use point-winning accounts such as dAhub that give you points for things like giving llamas/watching/commenting/faving. Would take a long time, especially if you want to get the character designed by someone that has high prices.
- Fifth option would be to join raffles or contests. Some contests do allow writing, it usually says in the description. Some are even 100% literature. Raffles aren't rare to find either, you just need to join one where the prizes match what you want.
- Sixth option would be to look out for someone taking requests. I like the idea of taking some requests before jumping into customs because it gives you an idea of what it is - the amount of versatility you need to have, how to deal with customers and all of that.
- The last option I can think of would be to go to other sites. Maybe you try all of these and they don't work. You could go to Tumblr, to Hentai Foundry (I mean, porn sells. lol) and even Fiverr. Try the things you tried here there and maybe you can go lucky! In the last case there are those very scam-looking "answer polls and get paid!" things. Who knows, maybe they actually work.
But yeah, if you want something special it can take a lot of time to either gather the money or to find someone offering for free. Good luck though!
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Thank you for taking the time to answer my post, you gave me more than I could have expected you to answer!! Just simply knowing that people have seen some of these things done before gives one courage to try it themselves, you know?
I wouldn't mind connecting with your friend who has done writing commissions, I'd like to get an idea of the kind of things people look for when hiring a writer, I've only written for myself thus far, so I'm curious to learn the kinds of things others look for. Whenever I have to price something it trips me up as I always feel it's such a tricky question. Quote too high and I scare the customer away, quote too low and I sell myself short and maybe leave the impression that my work's not good. See, always a dilemma lol
Again, this was an amazing answer! I think I will try a little bit of everything to be honest! Thank you for your time
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Hello, I just found this guide and this will be very useful to adoptable community where I joined! May I translate this guide into Korean and post it to other site, with your name and link of this page on it? and if possible, I would like to translate question and answers too. I'm not actually that good at English, but I think there is no problem with reading and translating this in my language. I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me.
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I really appreciate it! Before I give you my full approval, could you tell me what's the site you're going to upload it to? Is it something a lot of Korean people use, more than deviantart?
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It is "Band", a website allows people to make lots of small communities like forum system. Well, not that much. As it is not for only artists(there is a lot of community for artists) people are devided in many communities.
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Yeah feel free to translate it then. It would be nice if you could put it here on DeviantArt as well or send me it so I can put it in my journal (with credits for the translation, of course). If you're 100% on to do it, could you tell me how to say "Korean translation in progress!" so I can put it on the top of the page?
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Thanks you! As I almost done translating, maybe you can see the translated version in this week! you can say "한국어 번역 진행 중!" in Korean to say that!
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Alright, tell me when it's finished
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Sorry for late reply!! I can't believe I forgot to notice you even I finished translating... Here is the link of translated version! www.evernote.com/shard/s459/sh…
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Ah thank you very much! You can post it on your dA journal if you want. I don't think it'd be appropriate for me to post it since I know nothing about Korean haha
How do you say "Translation to Korean here!" so I can update the link on the top of the journal?
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You can say "한국어 번역본은 여기에 있습니다!" for it, and I'm really thanks for your gift!
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The Cinnadogs Website doesn't exist anymore o:
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Fixed the link, thanks for letting me know!
By the way, are you still working on the German version? If you are, could you tell me how to say "German version in progress!" so I can put it on the top of the page?
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I'm still working on it but I'm almost done >-<''
"Deutsche Version in Arbeit!"
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Don't worry, take your time. You're helping a lot
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Hello! I find this guide very helpful and it explain like EVERYTHING you Need to know about afoptables! Since I'm from Germany but still "good" in English, I had no difficulty to read this guide. Now I wanted to ask you if I can translate this guide in German? Just to help others who are bad in English and to explain everything in a reasonable grammar (not like Google translate). I know that you put a lot of work into this guide that's why I ask if I'm allowed. Of course I'd link you and this Journal!
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Sure thing, feel free to translate it! Just remember to link back to the original. After it's done I'll put a link it here o/
If someone asks a question there it would be really appreciated if you (or someone else) could put it in English here so I could answer them, but I can understand if it's too much work~
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Of course I'll link you back! You put so much effort into this guide! After I'm done with that, I'll comment again with the link to german guide. And thank you :3
If someone have questions I'll point it out that you can answer them.
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Say you make a gacha adopt and someone buys one . Do you post the art to your gallery for the design they got or is there a way to privately send them the art through DA??
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You can either post it to your gallery or upload it somewhere and send them the link via note. Usually people upload it to sta.sh since it belongs to deviantart, but if it's NSFW you should upload it somewhere else, like onedrive or dropbox since having NSFW content on your sta.sh can get you into some trouble - even if nobody has seen it.
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Okay thanks! Also now worries- I don't do NSFW. (^__^)3
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Thank you for this, very helpful!
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So if I want to offer art what should I say? Should I say something like "I offer 2 half-body drawings"? Sorry if my question is silly, I'm a newbie;;
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And will the person that I offered art choose the character I'll draw? Or will I draw some random drawings? Again, I'm sorry if my question is silly, I'm a newbie;;;;
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Don't worry, all questions are valid!
If the seller doesn't state anywhere that they're accepting art as a payment you can say something like "Would you take art for this adopt? I can offer you [thing]", and then you can say if you're offering a full body art, a shaded art, more than one art piece etc. If they accept it ask them what they'd like you to draw - their character, a fanart or whatever they choose. If it's something that makes you uncomfortable you could either ask them for more options or just reject it and give up.
If the seller says in the description they're taking art payments just say what you used as an example "I offer 2 half-body drawings", if they accept it the same thing happens, you ask what they'd like you to draw and so goes on o/ Sometimes you have to reply to a comment they made on the deviation to make you offer valid so be careful about that.
However, if they say in the description anything in the lines of "Only cash/point payments" or "Don't offer art for this!" respect their choice and don't offer art as it's not what they're looking for.
Hope I could help you, feel free to ask more questions
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Thank you so much for your help! Finally I'll be able to adopt one! Thank you!
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Excuse me for asking this under such an old post on an account that you partly moved from, but could you explain me briefly what people do with adoptables they purchased?
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