PSA/Guide: My art and its value:

Posted 6 years, 6 months ago by Pepperly

If you or someone else is reselling an adopt and it has my art attached, and if the art has one of my big watermarks as seen [Here, current] or [Here, retired] and the reseller cannot reproduce the art without my watermark, there is a 99% chance it has no monetary value, and was obtained for free through a drawthread, request board, or artfight. Traded art has no monetary value, but will also not have my watermarks; but it can have art-value when participating in future trades. Most, if not all, "watermarkless" large art still has a small signature or small pixel watermark somewhere on the image; do not worry about those small ones. Pixels may or may not have value, please inquire if you want to double check, but larger pixels with watermarks do not have value, guaranteed [example],

I have also made a handful of free adopts/designs from the arthread boards, they cannot be sold or traded for any reason. Please check the toyhou.se permissions page on these, I believe I've marked all of them as regift-only. 

Related, the only people who should see the watermark-free art of any of my designs or commissions or trades are myself and the persons who handle it. I heavily watermark all art that I post publicly, and art with my watermarks in character galleries were obtained freely. If a commissionee or someone I traded with reposted the watermarkless art without my permission publicly, I deny all responsibility for stolen art/characters.

I'm honestly kind of tired of reading about resellers bumping up prices, and people selling/trading designs they got from free boards, and honestly they should be considered scalpers. @ ___@

tl;dr As a guide, when shopping for adopts and my large, personal watermark is within a character gallery, it generally means it has no monetary value, and should not be counted when reselling/vouching a character. Traded art has no monetary value in terms of reselling or vouchers, but you may consider an internal value when participating in trades (as chibi/waistup/etc but not in terms of money). If a free design was acquired from a drawthread, it can only be regifted.

->As a small reminder, I do not allow any of my designs to be resold using vouchers, no matter the acquisition.

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