Adoptable Price Guide: 2015 V.2

revisited from here:


This is for the more... common adoptables from the younger or newer people to deviantart.
Please remember this is my opinion and what I believe is fair!

So the first one is a dollmaker. very common and fun game.
However I see a lot of people who try and turn a profit. Myself in included I did once do that but I learned that's a very poor and cheap way to go about a respectable business with art. I feel that dollmaker designs aren't you're style at all. You've put 0% of effort or originality into it. But some people seem to expect at least 20
I also feel that trying to sell these designs is a form of art theft. Of course the original artist who made the game allowed or expected it, but to me earning a profit from something you have put no effort into and has none of your own work in it whatsoever is theft. So I'm not a huge fun.


The second one also bugs me. How do you expect to make profit from a design where you've just copied and pasted a picture overtop of a base? You cannot be serious?
I feel like that's not theft but close to it. It's certainly not your design at all. You may have put a very very minimal effort into overlapping the two images but I myself did that design in less than a minute.

Lastly is another common thing I see.
So you MAY put some effort into this, so what? 
You're taking a pre-existing design and just putting onto a base of a completely different species. So original!
I used Charmander and Pinkie Pie as an example. EXACT same colours, different species. To me that is 100% theft. Because you've taken somebody's original design and just altered the species.


Now I'm not here to yell at anyone, when I first got into art when I was a kid I did the exact same thing! So I KNOW a lot of the issues that come from it, but I assure you, you do not improve yourself or your art if you continue that path. 
I'm here to educate and set you on a better understanding of making designs for other people.
It's worth so much more if you practice your art everyday and do it that way.

Below I'll list some amazing people you can check out who has really made a shine at creating unique designs.
Hopefully from them you can learn and be inspired (not to steal) to have a crack at it this way.











These designs are NOT for free like my last lot was. I don't think they're worth anything so nobody gets them.
Look through my gallery for better designs for sale!

Dollmakers are by
bases are by:
 Free Lines - Wolf Cat Gryph Raptor Rodent
 Lineart(P2U)
 Adopt A Cub Base
Charmander belongs to (c) Pokemon
PinkiePie belongs to (c) MLP