Something that's been on my mind as of late has been other lines of income.

Since it's the beginning of the year, website and logo jobs have dried up a bit and I rarely (if ever) do commissions. I'd love to say my books sales are great but yeah... not "Help Pay the Bills" great just yet. So I'm thinking a little outside the box for me here. I'm thinking about Adoptables.

I do a bit of character design when I'm bored and when have the chance. Heck, that's pretty much the how I ended up with my last book. I'm kinda' wondering if this is something folks might want from me.

The deal I'm thinking of is pretty simple:

• I make the designs & set the price. These things will be as blank as can be - no names, no history, nothing to get in the way of your creativity. I'm even thinking about doing them up with simple tones so even Colors won't be an issue.
• You buy them & I send off a fairly decent quality PNG to you.
• Once money changes hands so-to-speak, you can do what you want with 'em. I only ask for the ability to pop it up to my archives with your name as the original buyer.

Again, I'm just spitballing ideas here. Being a designer, I'm no stranger to making things like this for other folks. The difference is those where paid gigs and most of those were logo or site designs. This would just be a new deal for me. Although I've seen others rock this format for a while now, I never thought to try it myself. I've also never bought a pre-existing design before so I'm clueless as to that aspect of it, too. I'm coming at this thing so fresh, you'd swear my nickname was Minty. = P

So what do you folks think: Good idea? Bad idea?