Then, and I'm going to put this gently, probably what you should be doing is engaging with content which drives the open source community and not soliciting free art. Certainly not soliciting free art which you don't have a place to put.
You could be more actively promoting open source projects of various sorts, branching out into new forms of promoting those who are trying to work to create content and get it recognized by the platform – but what you need is an anthropomorphic representation?
You do receive the ludicrous nature of that, right? It inverts the ostensible purpose of Utopian from the promotion of the open source community to the promotion of its own masturbatory self.
The last thing that Utopian is is a cute mascot. Of far more importance would be figuring out some way to actually make contributor content visible. You know, the underlying base idea of Utopian.
Without that, it's just one more pile of SP that votes up the insiders.
One does not negate the other. Branding doesn't come at the expense of the development of content discovery tools for the community, or instead of a content plan across various channels where Utopian can reach the open source community on and off the blockchain.
We're trying to do all of the above, and it's logical than not everyone will like all our ideas and initiatives.
I am more than willing to listen to any ideas you might have on how we can better create blog content which drives the open source community, and what other ways we can keep people involved as we develop the frontend. Feel free to look me up on the Utopian discord - same account name. Or just type in a reply. I am grateful in advance! <3