Warning - I'm about to be opinionated. Ever since I've been interested in machine embroidery I've been puzzling over one thing, and that is why do so many people spend so much time just digitising bad clip art and nothing else? Go through embroidery websites on the Internet and you see endless versions of awful clip-art stuff - cutesy teddy bears, fake naïve designs, lacklustre florals and badly drawn cartoon "art". Often you see different digitisations of the same mediocre designs on different websites. The people who present these designs are usually experienced digitisers and embroiderers, people with considerable technical competence – but why do they waste it on the terrible clip-art images they use? Of course it's a lot easier to use someone else's artwork simply because it come ready-made, and maybe some sellers would say that people want these designs. But I wonder how many of these designs actually sell. And to say that everybody wants this kind of stuff just isn't true. I know from my experience selling designs that many people are looking for things that are a step beyond teddy bears and Sunbonnet Sue. Maybe some digitisers feel that they're not “arty” enough to produce their own designs, but honestly, all it takes is a bit of imagination and practice
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