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Two Steps to Start
Create a new accountThis is not necessary, per se, but if you have in mind to do more than just one or two sheets of adoptables, it might be a good idea to start a new account. This way you won't spam your watchers' inbox, if they're not interested in adoptables, and you can organize your gallery in a better way.
Be a member of Adoptables GroupsdA is a big community and the sheer amount of new deviations every day makes it hard for your art to be seen. Considering that you just made a new account for your adoptables, you have basically no watchers whatsoever so how can you get the exposure you need to sell your characters? The answer is join Adoptables Groups. By doing this you can do two things, the first is submit your adoptables to their gallery and advertise them, the second is observing the trends, what people like to draw and buy more.
Make Adoptables
Adoptables Tutorial
Pricing
It is always hard to decide how to price your own adoptables and there are no guidelines for this. There are, however, two lines of thought on this:
Timer PayYou decide how much you think your *time* is worth. So, if you take half an hour to make an adoptable and you think your time is worth 800pts/$10 an hour, then the adoptable is going to cost 400pts/$5. While this method is more fair to the artist (you), you should also take into account what your current drawing level is. (Remember that the buyer doesn't see the effort, only the result, and better looking characters sell for more.)
Mean PayLook around, take twenty or thirty adoptables that generally look like yours (drawing style, flats/CG, anthro/animal) and look at how they were priced. Then choose something in the middle. This is a method that follows the general pricing, so it will be easier to sell your characters if you price them like this, but it also disregards any effort you might have put in the making of your adoptable.
The Secrets: Patience and Exposure
ExposuredA is a big community, among the many artists who are looking for a character to adopt there is certainly one that would adopt yours, but you can't expect them to come knocking at your door, begging you to sell them your character. You need to advertise your adoptables, submit them to many Adoptables Groups, maybe add a link in your signature to your Adoptables Account. Why do you think the big companies spend so much money on advertising?
PatienceIn the end, Adoptables Selling comes down to this and only this. Patience and staying strong on your own rules.
I'm usually sympathetic when people want to buy my adoptables and tell me that they can't afford them because their adoptables *don't sell*, but I become a bit annoyed when I go to their page and see that their 20 points adoptables are all sold through trades and drawptions.
Selling adoptables can be hard and it may take a lot of time, even months, you can't simply give up after a few days! If you are not concerned about the points/money, then write in the rules that you're open for trades too, but don't write that it's *points!only* and then give adoptables out to the first person who begs you with a pretty please. Doing this is pretty dangerous for a seller because you show your customers that, with enough begging, you will yield to their requests because you have done so before. And an artist who has adopted from you through a trade, will ask you *again* if they see something else that they like.
(If you are unable to refuse them, then offer them a trade for a *new* design, like an art trade. This way you still have your adoptable to sell and you've made the other person happy.)
Adoptables Journals Series:
Adoptables, Basics for Adopters
Adoptables, Basics for Adoptables Artists
Adoptables Tutorial
Adoptables, Writing an Artist's Description
Adoptables, Customs
Adoptables, Design Tutorial
Adoptables, Buying Adoptables
Adoptables, Pricing
Original Species Tutorial
Adoptables, Auctions
Adoptables, Original Species Confusion
Adoptables, I sold one, now what?
Adoptables, Doing It Traditional
Adoptables, Why are you so EXPENSIVE?
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Hi I didn't find any luck here on Deviantart so I tried to advertise more on amino adopts^^ most of my art and adopts are sold there to users that do have a deviantart account sometimes, but I really want to get known in here and I really don't know what to do.
I advertise my adopts in +50 groups, I try to find people that might intrest in my stuff but mostly no one shows up, I even tried to encourage bidding on this adopt by putting the sb to $1 but just only one person bidded here on deviantart:
I don't really now what I'm doing wrong I try to be as active as possible uploading commissions updating stuff but still no one shows up
I try to find "looking for adopts" journals to advertise but no one comesΒ
If you have some advice it will really help me a lot T^T
also please don't think that I sell adopts well in deviantart if most of my adopts are closed and with owner is because I sell them on amino adopts
and all of my commissioners are also from there
Even tho amino is a nice community it will help me a lot to also get known here
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Unfortunately I cannot give you tips on what you're doing because you're already doing everything correctly, the advertisement, numerous designs being posted and so on. I think it's just a matter of the market being saturated (lately it has been harder and harder to sell adopts) so the best thing to do is soldier through and keep on doing what you're doing. Persistance is the key to success after all.
(I know many people sell through IG and Twitter as well, maybe try to build a net of multiple accounts on multiple sites? So people knowing you from one platform can create more traffic on another one.)
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thanks so much for answering I'll try my best to keep advertising here and also I'll try instragram and maybe twitter
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Thank you very much! I've created my first adoptables and priced them according to time and effort I've put on them. I've submitted to a lot of groups (260+), But I think I'm not selling cause I'm unpopular. Groups don't give much traffic if you don't have a big fanbase of wathcers, especially if those groups are not moderating and look like a trashbin). I saw a lot of designs made on approximately my level and submitted to 2-3 groups, and they cost 2x and even 3x more just because authors are popular. But I'm still trying, huh... I can't put a lower price for thing which I've spent a lot of my time for (I feel it's more than 12 hours on each, they cost even more than I've priced).
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(dA sent me the message before I could finish it, what the hell.)
Starting with adopts these days is harder than in the past, but if you are a 'normal' account that has been doing art consistently for a while and start doing adopts it's already a good starting point. If your account is seldomly used, it's like starting out from a 'new' account. Also, I think you mean 'unknown' in you comment, because 'unpopular' has a different meaning.
In any case, in your account situation, despairing after three days of posting a 25USD adopt (which is a bit underpriced in my opinion, but still a consistent amount for most of the younger adopt collectors) seems a bit early. My suggestion is to approach them as a fun way to practice (and maybe get some extra money on the side) because they're no longer a quick and easy way to earn the extra buck, they require as much work as a commission and involve all the risks of never getting your time and money back. If you're serious about getting into the adopt world, then you'll need to make more designs and prepare to accept all the risks of that.
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Hi there. Many of the things you said in your comment are true, but you're kind of missing two important parts of the sale, which are 'shop presentation' and patience.
Groups these days are kind of overcrowded, so people turn off the deviation submission unless it's a group they really care about. This way, if they really want to look for something, they just browse the appropriate category in the group or turn to an artist they know and appreciate the work of. I have taken a look at your gallery, your 'shop', and while I cannot find a fault in your art (it is a peculiar style and certainly particular enough to warrant attention from a buyer) you have exactly 16 'official' submitted works in three years and only one adoptable submission.
Adoptable buyers have grown used to a constant stream of content to browse and to choose from, your gallery has had very few submissions (so your watchers are kind of used to you not submitting often) and only one of interest to the adopt community (so the percentage of your watchers interested in adopts is probably very low). If you're interested in trying your hand at adoptables, I suggest you do some more designs to go along with the ones you have.
Then we come to the 'patience' side. Because the community is oversaturated, it's harder to stand out and harder to sell. This means adopts going unsold for long periods of time (months) and a constant stream of submissions competing with yours to try and catch the buyer's eye. Starting with adopts these days is harder than in the past, but if you are a 'normal' account that has been doing art consistently for a while and start doing adopts it's already a good starting point
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I'm planning to sell this, but I'm not sure.
What do you think about the design?
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Anything can be sold as adoptables, the only question is how successful your design is, if it will get sold or not.
Your adopt has a nice color scheme and an interesting design. However the description is a bit poorly written (I have a Journal about that as well, check it out in the bottom links) and there seems to be a 'signature' on the drawing... If the lineart is by someone else, you should write a line of credit to them, if it's your signature, you should consider matching it to your username, to avoid confusion.
The design is fine in itself, but you should fix some small things in the presentation to better show them off.
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Thank you. This helped me a lot.
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Β I've got no clue how to price these? They're my first goes at character design and I feel clueless. (The species is an open species called Mocchi.)
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Hi there, to help you out I suggest reading this one: Adoptables, Pricing
Unfortunately I don't do estimates anymore because it takes a lot of time I don't have anymore, but the process of how to decide prices is in the Journal, so that should be enough.
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Alright, thanks so much!
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Thank you so much. I'm still trying.
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