If you spent less than an hour creating something with my stock, I don't want to know how much time you took.

If you made something good and you say "Time spent: 30mins" in your artist's comment - that's just showing off

If you made something crappy and you say "Just did this in 30mins" in your artist's comment - why didn't you take longer and make something nicer? It takes me and other stock artists a lot of time and effort to make the stock that you used.

I'd rather not know that you spent so little time just throwing something together with my stock - I'd rather believe that you care and are making an effort but that your skills aren't quite there yet.

_{Unless, of course, you're participating in a speed-art challenge / daily doodle / speedpaint}


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

Just a heads up - I just got back from holiday, so have a ton of stock to upload. Hope you don't drown flood!


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

I would just like to take a moment to say thank you to all of you who watch this account, use my stock and pay attention to the rules, who credit me, who let me know when you use my stock, and who make it worthwhile for me to keep doing this.

It seems like at the moment the voices of those who want something for nothing, who seem to think that good stock imagery spontaneously occurs like sunrise in the morning, and who hate stock artists because we want a tiny bit back are trying to drown out all the people who can read, who get the concept of not using things they don't want to follow the rules for, and who appreciate the stock they use.

It's so easy to listen to the negative all the time. But I don't want to.

Thank you for using my stock. ♥


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

I've often wished, when creating art, that there was a magic stock generator. I think this would be online; you'd enter a description of what you wanted into it, and upload what you had so far, and it would generate the perfect piece of stock that was in your minds eye, and even better it would be exclusively licensed to you and completely free for any conceivable use.

Unfortunately, such a generator doesn't exist. And even if a generator could be made, I bet it'd be expensive.

Stock is expensive. For example, I paid for my camera, for lenses, for my poser models, for my computer, for petrol to drive to the places I photograph. Then I put in time; the places I photograph aren't all right on my doorstep and they take time to get to, and it takes time to take photographs and then process and upload them. I get cold, so cold I can't hold the camera any more. And my long-suffering husband generously drives me up hills in the snow, or waits in the car when it suddenly occurs to me that I might be able to take cool bokeh textures of raindrops and streetlights looking out of the car.

I don't take model stock much (there's none on this account). But then you add in the dimension of costumes, makeup... all extra expenses, all extra time.

Stockists occasionally ask for donations for things, but a lot of stockists make stock that they don't use in their own artwork for other people for free.

You probably don't know me all that well. You may not know what my life is like, what I believe in, what I do for a living, what things I've had to overcome... I know I don't know these things about other stockers.

On this account, I have chosen to make my rules as liberal and as generous as I can. But that's my choice. I don't do model stock, so I personally don't mind if you use my stock art in macabre pieces. But if tomorrow I decide that I don't want you to be able to do that anymore, who are you to judge? I don't owe stock users anything. I don't have to share my stock, it's up to me what I do with my expense and hard work. As I said before, you may not know me. If my rules say "no macabre", for example, who is to say that a macabre scene may not be a PTSD trigger for some traumatic event I'd rather not think about? Why should that prevent me allowing people to do "pretty" things with my stock?

Creativity isn't free. In a dream world where none of us had to work and we could all do exactly as we pleased all of the time, maybe it would be. But sadly, this is reality.


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

*** You have joined #ARSTOCK *
<arstockbot>
<joannastar> oops
<shelldevil> horses deffinatly cast sadows
<shelldevil> shadows*
<shelldevil> unless ofcourse its a vampire horse and then it wouldnt
<joannastar> PHOTOS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
<shelldevil> OMG JO! ALL THIS TIME
<shelldevil> THEY HAVE BEEN MANIPPING VAMPIRE HORSES
<joannastar> DDDDDDDDDD:
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<arstockbot>
<joannastar> VAMPIRE HORSES
<shelldevil> RAH!
<joannastar> OH... you're playing the forest king card. Sneaky
<shelldevil> sneaky indeed
<joannastar>
<joannastar> I counter with a White witch!
<shelldevil> i play a trickster sprite!
<shelldevil> she will entrap your white witch with giggle spells!
<joannastar> I play bleak mountainside
** Morf-stock has left [connection closed]
* shelldevil would have counter attacked with flynig man with stick but hasnt uploaded yet
<joannastar> your trickster sprite will feel lonely and her power will be taken away!
<shelldevil> :thumb94715217: she will escape to saftey on balloons
<joannastar> GAH
<shelldevil>
<joannastar> I play OOH IT SPARKLES
<joannastar> the next figure played will be distracted by the pretty sparklies
<shelldevil> :thumb57553768: the mirror reflects the sparkles thus distracting the next played
<joannastar> YOU ARE TOO CLEVER FOR ME
<shelldevil>
<shelldevil> i offer you as a truce
<shelldevil> we're deffinatly not mad
<shelldevil> ITS THE VAMPIRE HORSES I SWEAR
<joannastar> My players are retiring to Tower until the next game
<joannastar> Vampire horses
<shelldevil> Ill provide food and entertainment :thumb50022816:
<shelldevil>


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

I've been away and I've come back, with quite a bit of stock I'll probably upload it gradually over the next few days, but I'd like to apologise in advance for flooding I hope you find it useful


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

Thanks to $Moonbeam13 It's all sorted now, and most of my stock is back, except I'm taking the opportunity to update a few descriptions here and there, so there are a few things in storage still. Thank you for your patience

My stock is in storage until this page no longer says:

"Stock photography which the photographer enters into the public domain for incorporation into other artists' work."

This description is viewable to everyone, members of dA and non-members alike, and implies that everything in the Stock section of resources is public domain.

Although my rules for stock do allow commercial usage on and off site, I retain copyright to all my stock, and dA should protect this, not undermine it.

Thank you so much to ^Elandria for bringing this very important point to my attention

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience caused. It's not a step I have taken lightly, and hopefully this won't be for long.


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

This year, $Moonbeam13, *mombeam and ~theblackmass are doing the walking in the Weekend to End Breast Cancer in Toronto. However, they have to raise loads of money to even get on the walk - so check it out and donate if you can. Failing that, journal features and pink art help spread the word

To help with your pink art, I have made some pink faerie stock:


If you use this stock or make your own pink stock I'll feature it here Either comment or note me
:thumb63673411: :thumb63673500:


Pink Stock
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I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

Well, I was really surprised when I logged into this account today - I got a DD Thank you so much `UnicornReality



The stock critique event in #ManipulatedReality was great fun - you can read the logs in ~ManipulatedReality's journal. I learned a lot, too - there were lots of good tips for various things, especially lighting which you can see in the logs


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

#ManipulatedReality will be hosting a Stock Critique night tonight, starting at 7pm London time This is an awesome opportunity for anyone with a stock account to hear from the people that actually use dA's stock what's useful about yours, and how to improve it Critique nights are a great chance to learn from the comments on your own art, and other peoples, so please join us if you can

Full details are in ~ManipulatedReality's journal here: [link]


To be honest, I thought this would go without saying. But since it doesn't:
You may not upload my stock to the Photography gallery. That sort of suggests you took it yourself, and is not what my stock is for.

Edited (14/04/08) to add: I haven't changed any further rules, but I've tried to rearrange them and reword them to make them a bit easier to read.


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!

So, recently, I was feeling a bit depressed about lack of stock use. I felt like no one was using my stock. Then I did a search and found that actually, more people than I had thought had in fact used it, but not bothered to tell me

Feedback is essential to me; sometimes I feel like if I put all my stock in storage no one would notice. So, if you use my stock please tell me.

And I'd like to say thank you to all of you who , , and use my stock and tell me You make it worthwhile


In light of the fact that people who wish to provide manipped stock can no longer use sxc.hu as a source, I have updated my rules, so if you want to use my stock in a manipped bg, you may, with some caveats. I know I enjoy making premade backgrounds, and I'd like other people who enjoy that to be able to as well See the 'Terms and Conditions' section below


I want you to use my stock! Don't wait to ask my permission first!