❖ Adoptables are visual designs which you can use to make your own character. You may name the character, create a personality and background information for the character. You can't publish edited/altered versions of the original art for the design without the permission of the original artist. By purchasing a species character, you own that specific character & its likeness, but do not own the commercial rights to it or the entire species.
Resale Rules
Reselling
Designs can only be resold for the $ amount you paid for them.
TC
Designs can only be resold for the $ amount you paid for them.
- Value can be added with more commissioned art or products (plush etc) you paid for or with art you made yourself.
- Gift art does not count toward added $ value, nor does art commissioned by the previous owner, if you received the character in a trade without $.
- Voucher trades are acceptable, regardless of whether it's for physical merch, adoptable or commission vouchers, etc.
- No "art slave vouchers", these cause problems.
TC
- Designs can be sold for any TC amount regardless of how much you paid for them.
Design Changes
Very small design changes can be made as long as you're not publishing edited original art without the permission of the original artist.
Small changes examples: changing one thing- shifting a white to a cream, changing black speckles to dark blue speckles, etc. These do not have to be approved but you can request an art update at the MYO/Growth
Medium to large changes require change spells which can be purchased from the Exchange shop.
Small changes examples: changing one thing- shifting a white to a cream, changing black speckles to dark blue speckles, etc. These do not have to be approved but you can request an art update at the MYO/Growth
Medium to large changes require change spells which can be purchased from the Exchange shop.
Art Usage
Not Allowed
- Don't publish the original artwork with direct alterations without the permission of the original artist. This includes painting over in physical or digital form, re-drawing parts of the image, or otherwise making any final additions to the original image and submitting or publishing it on the internet.
- Using the image for illustrative and anatomical learning purposes- for example, you may "redline" the image as a study and make notes to learn or improve at drawing the character. These studies should not be published.
Design usage
You're allowed to use tessarium designs in a number of noncommercial ways, including:
- Commissioning artists to produce art of your character, including digital images, icons, logos, paintings, drawings, figures, artist dolls, etc
- Purchasing custom-made (one-off) products (plush t-shirts, prints, bags, etc) which you do not intend to sell. These can be just for you, or gifted to a friend. You may use the original file I provide you- but you may not trace the original image to produce an image of higher resolution. I am open to commissions of art of your character, please contact me if you need it made. If you would like to sell merch of my art please contact me about it.
NSFW Terms
- Tessarium doesn't encourage NSFW of the species, but using the design's likeness in explicit images is allowed as long as it has the proper NSFW filters on it on whichever site it's on & the image does not contain zoophillic/pedophillic/necrophillic themes. Please do not submit any NSFW to the Tessarium group- we don't accept content that would have a higher than PG rating.
Not allowed without my permission:
- Making direct or indirect income or profit off the design (uses which conflict with this TOS)
- Using the design in any form of publication which is used to generate income or profit, which includes but is not limited to- games, books, apparel, magazines, comics, toys, marketing or promotional material whether physical, digital, or otherwise. Please contact Tessary if you would like to do one of these.
- Mass-producing physical merchandise which uses or incorporates the likeness of the design
- Please contact me for licensing and usage if you are interested in the character's use in any of the above merchandising topics.
- Zine Sketchbook exception: I allow the character's likeness to be used in artists' sketchbook zines made for sale. These are typically scanned and digitized or printed reproductions of sketch pages by an artist and sold by that artist. The publication needs to have more than 3 pages and the character cannot take up the majority of the publication made for sale or be its sole focus. Also, you are not allowed to sell individual prints of the character without my permission.