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Good question an a bit of a fuzzy area depending on what you mean by bases and pixel art?
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Sure! You can see examples in my gallery under "dolls" and "bases" - also generally "dolling" is a form of pixel art where an artist will make a bald/naked template that can then be customized by anyone (with clothes, hair, etc.). Mine are always free and open to anyone to edit, and cannot be sold in any form, so no money would be made off this. So when an artist uses a stock image to make a base (with the stock artist's permission obv) they trace the outline of the pose and use it for their base or pixel art. So in my case, I would like to trace the basic pose with one color pixel lines, convert the image so that it's blank lineart, and do whatever shading and detailing on that lineart myself. Let me know if that's okay, or if you have other questions - I can show you an example on another artist's stock that I'm working on right now if you'd like. Thx!
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Thankyou for the in depth reply, I had not realised bases and dolls were so much of a thing 
After thinking about this all night I have to say I am not 100% with the idea of my stock as bases.
It's nothing personal and actually the first time anyone has asked to make a base from my stock.
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Okay, I totally understand. If you need help putting that in your use policy or something, let me know; I don't know of a similar stock policy off the top of my head you can copy from, but depending on what you want to do, you could just add to your policy something like "do not trace" etc. Thanks for the consideration! I do appreciate it.
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Thankyou for understanding
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Hello,
I read through your stock rules a few times and I am still a little unclear about something (you've probably answered this a bunch of times before). I'm an illustrator and for client projects/commissions I usually take my own photo-reference to avoid having more people involved. However, for my personal work I don't always take the time to hire a model/lighting/etc... so I like to use stock photos for reference for my drawings and paintings. Sometimes I sell prints of my work (sporadically at the moment) and I hope to take prints to conventions next year to see how they actually would sell to the public. Is this under the "blanket fee" you mentioned? Would I pay the amount to you and then would be able to freely sell prints?
I hope this wasn't confusing. I don't have anything in particular planned to paint, but I do like your stocks.
Thanks!
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In short yes you are correct (I should probably try and re write it some time soon
To elaborate I count it as two worlds, the artist doing personal work/prints/commissions for individuals. (I.E. the final piece is the final item)
That's all cool under the "Blanket Fee".
The other half is if the work is for a second purpose (advertising/book cover and so on), it has only happened once to date but if the 3rd party is re-selling the work it needs it be discussed on a project to project basis.
I hope that makes it clearer.
You have some very interesting work (looking at the sins).
And if I might say, your ID, that is one hell of a stare 
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Ah, wow! Thank you for such a clear explanation! 
I'm also happy you like my work! Thanks for taking the time to check out my gallery
I hope my stare didn't pierce ya too much
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Thankyou, on both counts : P. I try.
I cant help but like the Sins, so many takes on them and you managed to make Lust look so cold (no red in there at all).
Nah it's not a death stare
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Haha I'm glad
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True I had quite forgotten that.. I guess msot people still thingk Red for flames
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I just want to make sure you don't have a rule about combining stocks. Can I use different pieces from different stocks (all from you) in one image? (I'll reference each stock, if you'd like. I just can't find any one stock that has all the aspects I want, so I am making sure I can edit them. I am planning to use them as a drawing reference)
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As you already mentioned, just credit and link.
Have fun.
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Just letting you know that I used this picture: as reference for this picture:
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Hi! Ehm.... Sory, my english isn't really good, so I haven't understood perfectly your journal :'D
Just to make sure, what if I use some of your stock as reference for a comission? Just the pose, of course. Do I still have to pay a fee? That's the only part I didn't had really clear, sorry :'D
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That's fine I don't know any Spanish so you are already winning
As you would still be using my stock and I post the majority of my stock as pose reference I do still consider it a use.
So yes if you were planning to use it for paid/commission work I would as a very small fee for using the stock.
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Oh! Haha :'D
I see, then may I note you please? ^v^
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Im trying to make a tribute for robin williams.....
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Hey Kyle, I had a quick couple of questions regarding the £20 commercial use "blanket fee" (which is approximately $35USD at the time I'm writing this for anyone who needs the conversion). The £20 is a "pay once for any commercial use of your stock from the date payment is received" deal, am I reading that correctly? Also, does this "£20 commercial use blanket fee" include book covers? If not, do you have a fee for that or are you not going to allow book covers? I can see your patient, axe man, and chainsaw man making for great horror/thriller book covers and I would love to make some premade covers available for self-published authors if you allow that. I'm more than happy to pay the fee too if that covers it.
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And damn you raise a good few questions I have not thought about
Mostly the use of my stock in a work that is then sold on again/edited and applied to another work.
I was only thinking of items that go off as a finished item (Prints/Posters/Commissions for pieces).
The question in my mind is actually one of control and my stock rules, I have been asked regarding book covers before and ask for an overview of the story/character I may be representing.....
And again notification/my being informed of the book covers use...Hmmm..
Damned difficult to balance..
I think the updates I just put in are the best middle ground I can think of.
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Oops, sorry to put you through this Kyle! 
So far I only intend to design covers for eBooks. If a print book cover opportunity comes my way then I will consider it and then choose whomever's stock fits the story synopsis best, contact the provider (unless I already have worked out cover deals beforehand) and go from there.
I will never take on any covers that are of a questionable nature such as child, or animal abuse (unless it is anti-abuse), fetish/sexual/erotica regardless if it is of a heterosexual or homosexual nature, and especially not rape having been a victim survivor of that myself.
A simple romance novel should not be an issue with most people, however, but the only stock of yours (so far, at least) that would fit that genre is your collaborative stock with Claire and I would definitely ask her about that prior to using those images as covers. (I'm referring to your "costumed stock," not pose references as I know you collaborated with EntombedSix as well.)
What I would like to do is create some book covers with no particular story in mind, but covers that would fit in with the suspense/horror/thriller genres. I would post them with full credits to my deviantART gallery here, my website (once I finish the damn thing), Facebook , and Shadowness , credit and notify you, and then promote them to self-published authors whose works are along the lines of Dean Koontz, Stephen King, John Grisham, James Patterson, etc... Once one of the covers sells and I customize the title/author name I would then let you know the book info and once it is on bookshelves (virtual bookshelves that it 
As a stock provider myself, DamselStock , and as someone with a law degree I always put the stock providers first as I know what it is like first hand. So, if I've read your updates correctly you are okay with eBook covers with the fee being paid and you are notified, etc...? If so, I will definitely send you £20, no problem at all there, though it might be next month as I just had to buy a new microphone for my computer so that I can start making some tutorials. I will not make any covers until I have paid you.
So, please let me know if that sounds okay and if I am interpreting your updates correctly.
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Haha it's almost a shame my reply is so short compared to what you just wrote.
But yes now without a time scale is a big help
You nailed it, on the themes and use, that's a very admirable and dedicated stance on the crediting and notification.
All of that sounds spot on and I am more than happy with that arrangement.
Yes to the E-books as long as they avoid the mentioned themes, all under the blanket fee.
I'm not going anywhere so no worry about as and when as you almost single-handedly poked the holes in my wording
Sadly as I have grown up I have dated and come to understand there are more "survivors" out there than I ever thought possible.
Good luck with the tutorials
Talk to you soon.
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ok, I did a photomanipulation; but my description never goes through.
Had to credit you in the comments until I know what is going on.
williamp100.deviantart.com/art…
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I know this sounds like a really weird question, but i am currently using your stock as a reference for one of the drawings i am currently doing, it may or may not be finished just depends on time >.<
But the question is am i allowed to use your stock but be it on a different gendered character/person?
I majorly draw females, but your gallery in general is amazing and i would love to use them anyways >.<
If this has already been answered/asked i am sorry, i just don't wanna get my information wrong!
Thank you for your time!
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Aww it is in no way near the weirdest question I have been asked
And I have already been drawn as a woman several times.
Yes you can use it to make me a woman
Thanks for asking though!
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Hi there,
I have some additional questions if you won´t mind.
I was wondering do you happen to sell your stock for points too? In case you don´t, given that I´m from Spain, would you accept euros? And it would be possible to buy from you one single stock, like, for instance, this one? null-entity.deviantart.com/art…
Thank you for your time.
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I normally accept paypal for stock uses.
However it all depends on your purpose, my stock is free for non pair/commercial use,
If you want commercial we can talk in a note in more detail
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I've been doing some anatomy drawings as of late in various mediums, my trusty old volumes are sufficient for this purpose alone, however the poses offered are at times very traditional in dynamicism. I enjoy unique, situational poses that would otherwise not be existent in a traditional study of the human figure, that is actually the reason why I placed you on my watch list in the first place (along with a number of other deviants). Within the next month I expect to use some of your stock.
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Very kind words, Thankyou
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and what would happen if given case would like to use some of your reference poses for a webcomic I'm gonna do. What would have to do in this case?
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I would still need to be credited (even if it's not for every individual use) and linked
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Heyo~! Some of your stock is awesome, really cool poses that I'd love to use.
But I do have a question. I read through the rules, and you'd like to have a link to all the places that the drawings are posted up on. I'd be posting the drawings up on dA, of course, and the only other place I'd be posting to is a site called y!gallery (a site like deviantART but caters to male homosexual material) and my account is not visible to anyone who does not have an account on there (and I refuse to change that setting), so .....I don't think I'd be able to link you to that posting. I wont put it up on that site if you'd prefer not to of course, but since that site is for, basically, everything and anything male Id really want to post it. Especially if Im proud of the drawing and I know it'll get good attention/appreciation on there.
Now I know this sounds off-putting, but I wouldn't use your stock for anything pornographic, and any drawings I do will be posted up on both sites. With the same links back to you, etc etc.
tl;dr: just wondering if you'd have a problem with me posting up to a site that I can't exactly link you to.
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Thankyou very much for the kind words.
I think it boils down to two/three things really.
The context/nature of the picture and what is implied (my duo stock has been draw as couples
in mid sex (with nothing on show) and as guys holding one another before, so I would like to
confirm the intended picture.
So in short what makes it Homosexual without being pornographic to go on that site ?
And if it were to be posted on that site I simply as you link back to my DA page, even if I cannot review the
page myself.
Kyle.
P.S. a note might be a better place to discuss this.
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Sent a note then.
Forgot to add that the stocks I'm interested in right now is the crouching/dynamic poses.
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Uh so reading your rules, i'm just wondering, does inappropriate content apply to gore, since well, i do a lot of gore art and am always needing some resources and stock, of course i am absolutely happy to give you credit and such, my art is mainly digital painting sometimes the traditional pencil to paper
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"Inappropriate" gives me a little control if someone creates something really OTT, so unless it's me chewing my way though a woman's guts and rubbing them all over myself.. I really doubt I will have an issue, if you want to show me a work in progress sketch when you get there for my two cents then that's fine.
And credit/linking is always required
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May i do as same as her with photoshop related photomanipulation at gore arts? and then credit you...
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I have creating violence & gore related photomanipulation by photoshop program.
May i use your stocks and then credit you...?
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Provided the piece follows my rules, so no sexual/hate/racist content and so on then yes.
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I should notify you for each work because your rules for digital photomanipulation written amphibology because you have feared from abusage too much.
I wish your luck
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That sounds about right, Best of luck.
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Actually i was thinking it's more like a zombie hunting thing, but i will upload a little WIP for you to see so i can be safe about content, your Stock is really good for fantasy content too so i might just do some of that as well
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All sounds good to me, any doubt just st.sh the picture and link me
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