Advice

[skiota.livejournal.com]

Lately, I've been looking for adoptables because I'm bad at character design and I want a few more.

So I found a few I liked...but then I found some I absolutely fell in love with.

Sadly, the two I really loved (One by FA artist Neverin and the other FA artist Techen), both of these artists seem to have vanished from FA with no alternate contact.

I am willing to pay as soon as these artists get in contact with me, but I know I just cant start drawing the adoptable until I purchase it. Two of them are ones I really really connected with after looking through 30 some odd pages of adoptables XD

What should I do? Has anyone heard of these artists on other art sites or know where they went? Or have any advice other than that.

I know I just have to buckle down and wait but still... D:

Thanks for your input!

Comments

[teahound.livejournal.com]

I'm curious too, as I really liked one of Techen's adoptables too. D= I found a DA and LJ account both under that username, but no connections and both are dead.

They've sold to others, but they hid the comments that had their email so I couldn't look that way, I'm afraid.

[saelethil.livejournal.com]

[kriscynical.livejournal.com]

I think you just answered your own question, really.

[teahound.livejournal.com]

That's what I told her, but she wanted to post here anyway in case someone knew where they went. xD

[kawaiipiepie.livejournal.com]

I'm not that familiar with 'adoptables' so take what I say with a pinch of salt, but...
What if you posted making a claim to it, but that you can't contact the artist to pay, but that you'll pay the artist whenever they come back?
So you could just start using it? I know really you should wait, but, as long as you pay them when they come back, I don't see the harm in it?

[thaily.livejournal.com]

Someone else might have claimed and paid for the adoptable before the artist went AWOL and just didn't update the page, so I would advise against this.

[kawaiipiepie.livejournal.com]

Ah.. I guess. Maybe the OP can just do fan art of the adoptable, if they really love it, until the artists come back? I mean I can't think that there's any harm in that?

[skiota.livejournal.com]

I can't draw, so I'd have to commission other people to draw them, or I would D=

[kawaiipiepie.livejournal.com]

Oh that complicates things then, many artists won't draw other people's characters without their permission. :/ Good luck, I hope they get in touch with you soon, or you find an adoptable from someone else you love just as much. :)

[mialattia.livejournal.com]

Just commission custom adoptables from another artist. At most, you could ask that they be 'inspired' by the ones you really like, but only if you and the artist make sure not to copy or appropriate the design.

[mel-the-hybrid.livejournal.com]

Adoptables you say? :3