Bump~
I'm really curious as to what draws different people to a closed species~
Is it complete originality? Colors? Markings/pattern? Quality?
Feel free to comment ^^
I'm more of a design-by-design kinda person myself! if it happens to be a species and the lore isn't super restrictive/something im not into then its fine! so pretty much for me its all design/art- i like humaniod designs the most but anthros and ferals can be cool too! overall i like designs that have points of interest but are not ridiculously complicated, whether that be clothing or markings! I feel like theres some species out there that are for people who don't draw and drawing masochists because holy 6 hours just doing marking details batman FGDFG which i mean is totally fine!! thats just not my thing as i like overall simple characters with clean silhouette and cool clothes or nice simple markings!!
- kemonomimi/animal paws/cat themes/generic cute things. i honestly dont care much for originality honestly, but id like it to be recognizable as a species at least
- myo slots for it. i prefer to have aus of my own ocs as closed species rather than other peoples adopts because the rules of what i can do with my design are generally more relaxed but i can still support their ideas
- no random body markings (like unnatural patterns on the arms/legs/tails/whatever)
- lore that isnt required to follow
Above everything else Design - yeah lore interests me and so does extra stuff but design will almost always come first to me. The quality of the art is pretty much as high as this. I know a lot of CS get very high in price simply because of being CS and I tend to stray away from those - I have less and less interest in CS which are lower quality art or always on the same base with very little unique qualities to the individual designs. There are exceptions, but these /tend/ to be CS which I already know friends who own - and even then I'm almost always going to be more interested in others over these.
Lore and information can be a factor for me but it is dependent on the community for how high this tends to be. I RP really heavily with almost every character of mine - if the lore is interesting yes I might be inclined to look at the character specifically because of the lore BUT I also am less interested in there is no community and the lore is very strict/I'm not allowed to do anything unique with said lore and am basically stuck as far as being creative with my own character. So it tends to play differently depending I guess?
As far as general designs themself - it varies for me? I am at the point where I buy less but I tend to buy more higher quality stuff and then spend a lot on the art for what I do own. I'm more than willing to drop a LOT on a design I really want rather than buy ten or twenty designs I don't care about and am not really gonna use. I'm not a collector - I want to use the characters I have rather than hoard them.
I'm pretty easily turned off by a character trying to be made unique by patterns on their body (not a general rule I mean I have characters with patterns but it's gotten to be that this is a rather easy 'unique' trait to give an oc), tails that just make no damn sense, really clashing colours, And by designs that are 'chibi only' as far as art with very few exceptions.
I love horns, wings, more masculine designs, 'femboy' designs, characters that aren't simply white and are visibly not white - this includes both poc as well as strange skintones, scars and malformations, good clothing designs especially with real-world and cultural basis.
In the end what specifics I love and hate are really individual, though, and I think certain trends such as ‘body patterns’ are pretty popular now regardless of my dislike of them.