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synthaphone · 5 years ago

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there’s many things i don’t really gel with about the way that adoptables community appears to work, but one of the biggest ones is that people feel bad that they aren’t using their own old character designs and sell/give them away- like, obviously people are allowed to do that if they want, but its so alien to me

all of my old ideas i’m not using are like... those are mine. i can’t give them away, what if i want to use them later? they’re not being wasted if i don’t draw them for 8 years or whatever. also what if i want to take elements from them someday for a different character, or rework them... i just don’t like the idea of people feeling like they HAVE to give away old characters that they themselves created, or else they’re ‘going to waste’, and giving away stuff that they might not necessarily actually want to get rid of just out of guilt? it feels weird

i might also just be kind of possessive though... i can give away or sell designs that i create specifically with the intention of them going to somebody else, but if its an idea i came up with for myself its like, in a separate category in my brain

#i feel like i might be okay at making adoptables but i just don't think i'm cut out for the scene #maybe someday. who knows #the fact that people can just resell your designs and make a profit on them sits REAL bad for me #and i always feel guilty using designs i got from other people- like i'm simultaneously failing to live up to their concept #but also stealing it??#i've got a couple from character trades and i LOVE the designs but i'm so anxious about doing them justice #and the fact that they don't feel fully mine #i'm out here like... is it okay if i say this one's a girl? what if i draw it a little differently? its probably fine but #what if i'm WASTING the potential #also all of them are like 'the way the original artist drew them is perfect and i feel like i'm making it worse #by trying to draw it in my style'#anyway i'm gonna try and get over these hangups because i thought the trades were fun and i like these designs #and i don't care how the people i traded with use and potentially transform the designs i made for them #so its probably the same vice versa and i'm overthinking it. and i'm gonna be crediting the original designers #i need a text post tag #haven't uploaded them to toyhouse yet though because what if the artists don't want me linking back to them on toyhouse to credit them????#but what if its ruder to link to their non-toyhouse pages... i don't know the etiquette #i'll probably just wing it and it will be fine. i'm definitely overthinking it #long post

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