Adoptables

Adoptables on wajas generally take the form of a base image that a user has drawn and offers to recolor for another user in exchange for payment. Adoptables on Wajas are commonly offered with Wajas markings and mutations, and users usually order adoptables to be colored like wajas they own for the purpose of putting them on the waja's profile page as decoration. Most adoptables are drawings of wolves or other canines (sometimes even specifically made to look like waja breeds), but any kind of drawing (within the site rules) can technically be made into an adoptable.

Adoptable Selling Tips

• Selling art of any kind that you didn't draw or that you do not have permission to sell is art theft and against the rules. Make sure that the adoptables (or any art for that matter) you're selling were either drawn by you or that you have permission to sell them.

• Rather than drawing the line-art themselves, a user can also buy line-art from another user or obtain permission to use someone else's line-art. Some users choose to go on an art site (such as deviantart) and find free lineart that the artist has expressly stated can be recolored and sold by anyone as adoptables (just remember to follow their rules if they've given any, such as crediting them on the image. Failure to do so could count as art theft).

• Most users prefer to buy digitally drawn and colored adoptables with transparent backgrounds. Scanned drawings or drawings with a solid background are less likely to garner much interest.

• Finish orders in a timely manner, and don't take on more orders than you can handle. Customers will become dissatisfied if they have to wait unreasonable amounts of time, and may end up cancelling their order.

• Before trying to sell your adoptable, you can go on the Adoptables or Art boards and ask for critiques, check the interest on your adopt, and get advice on pricing it.

• This sticky on the Adoptables Sales forum has further tips on buying and selling Adoptables.

Adoptable Buying Tips

• Read the artist's first post very carefully. It generally includes their policies and prices, as well as instruction on how to order an adoptable from them (usually there's a form to fill out).

• Once your adoptable is complete and posted, make sure to save it to your own computer and upload it to an image hosting site for yourself. The artist may decide to delete your adoptable from their image hosting site account, and you don't want to lose it or have to bother them to try to retrieve it.

• Many artists have a limited number of orders they will take at a single time. Make sure that they are not swamped and that the thread is still active before ordering.

• This sticky on the Adoptables Sales forum has further tips on buying and selling Adoptables.