I Stopped Watching an Artist Today

It was adoptables again. Artist was selling a whole page worth of adoptables, six per submission… Myself, I have a brain. I can come up with characters on my own. I can even given them stories – not that they were being sold with stories – just characters that the artist doodled out, without a ref sheet, background, or back story - a lifeless splat of digital ink that was brought into existence for the sole purpose of being sold.

Has anyone I know bought one of these, and if so, why? I would like to understand what anyone gets out of buying these things.

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Added:	4 years, 5 months ago 26 Nov 2019 21:50 CET

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Kupok

4 years, 5 months ago

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Add "adoptable" to your tag blacklist.

Like YCH, it's a thing that makes reliable cash- cash of which many are desperately low and needful for in today's economy. In the end, your unwatch of protest effects only your own experience and will have no impact on the behavior of it's production or consumption.

Favor yourself, place "adoptable" on your blacklist as I have YCH.
|| Then you can bark at people for not tagging properly ||

PeachClover

4 years, 5 months ago

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@ Kupok

It's not simply the presence of adoptables; this artist had stopped trying to polish one's art. I understand artists use art to make money, but I can't respect trying to cashgrab from minimal effort. Hundreds of meaningless adoptables are still meaningless, unless the buyer does something with them, and whoever that is can do that with one's own creations. Auctions for YCHs are... Why? $200 for a one time YCH when the artist could keep selling that one piece for $40 buy-ins is a much smarter business practice as it earns more in the long run. Why is it these same "starving artists" seem to never take actual commissions?

I think the answer is laziness, but I was asking to see if there was perhaps another reason. What I am really saying is that I stopped watching this artist because this artist's art became ugly from being lazily made. The abundance of adoptables was just the final nail in the coffin to make me unwatch the artist, and yes, I do believe there is a correlation between lazy practices and loss of quality in art.

squeakybunny

4 years, 5 months ago

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I say laziness when there are six identical inks and all that has been done is they have different color jobs. I don't mind YCH if it is a one only. When I see several identical drawings with minimal changes. I avoid that artist as I see it as a lack of interest in the commissioner other than a cash cow.

PeachClover

4 years, 5 months ago

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@ squeakybunny

I have to disagree.  There is no point in a YCH if there is only one.  If the point is to make only one, let commissioners decide their own ideas.

When I commission art, I want the artist to render my idea.  I'm not going to try to win an auction for someone else's idea, but I don't mind buying into a spot if I like the concept enough.  YCHs are supposed to be cheaper than standard commissions because they are using premade art the cost of which is covered over the several buy-ins.  If the concept, pose, and background are of sufficient detail, the YCH is worthy of existence.

Although the term "YCH" is a recent concept in Furry, copying an exact pose from a cartoon and adding one's own character is not.  If an artist became good at splicing a particularly popular scene and adding characters that looked like they matched the scene, I would only see this as wrong if that artist were charging a disproportionately large amount for the original work being done in the scene.

As a viewer, YCHs can and do become disinteresting when I have already seen them and the new set I am seeing have uninteresting characters, but that is a matter of effect on the viewer and not an objective measurement of quality.

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