LineBirgitte

Vashtastic has run into a dryspell, and has lowered her prices, so hurry up on over to her page and check out her gallery.

Here's her prices for ya!

$10 for line art (add $5 for every additional figure)


$15 for full color


$20 for background
$25 for couple, full color with background

Please send her a note if you're interested

I love the people who make stock.
I love that they are have a passion for sharing.
And I love that they are on dA.

BUT

What is up with the rules, people?
"Please leave a link to your work and credit me in the description (on dA) or near the the image (outside dA)" should suffice, right? RIGHT?

Apparently not.

It is very common that you are presented with a list of 10 points with restrictions like "No use outside dA" and "No commercial use" - these are common. I find them... weird. Why? If it was about being paid, then sure, but usually there's a comment underneath with "If I like it I may permit you to post other places and offer it as print" - so, what? You control the art that was made either using your stock in a photomanipulation or as reference in graphics or illustration? WHY? It hurts my head and my heart. It reeks of unnecessary control. Just make use of the new feature thingy dA offers and SELL your stock.

I do not get the other weird rules people have, like: no antro, no making me ugly, no making me pretty (editing away pimples, straightening toes, I'm paraphrasing but you get what I mean.)), no sexual themes and so on. There's people who don't want you to use their stock if you put a kitten in your piece along with their stock. Just saying.

ssst says (quote): "Word! To tell you how /annoying/ stock rules can be sometimes, I went and bought myself poser. I don't use stock at all anymore in fear of overstepping a boundary."

I've seen stock rules that go on and ooon, and I at least just sort of shrug, forget I ever saw that incredible stock and move on to someone with simpler rules. Or, as I have begun to, simply don't use an actual reference - or I google. Yeah, there, I said it. Granted it's mostly for traditional art I use google, and it is merely references, so I'm sitting there with 10 pictures of an angle of a face to get a grip on how a nose could look, or 10 pictures of crows to figure out how the feathers spread. I could just as well have used deviantart, and used stock. But it's too frikkin' complicated.

ssst says (quote):  "I go "DEVIL DEVIL *HISSSS*"  at stock /rules/"

Anyway, here's a feature to make up for all my harsh words:



^{(I wanted to find good stock with good rules ... but yeah.)}
beautiful skin by Ikue