I had ACen next week and I will be at Anime Boston this weekend so I'm a little crazy right now. No time really to post stock or check messages so they are kind of piling up, but I promise to catch up eventually so keep sending me your art!!  Sorry to make you wait so long!!

This is my table location for Anime Boston in the Art Alley:


Please come visit!! ^___________^  I will have USB drives and the prototype for the new stock book. I'm also selling raffle tickets to win a custom plush of anything you want. IT'S A PARTY!

Just a small feature to show you some of the great artwork people have made recently from my stock. Please take a moment to visit these lovely artists and enjoy their pretty things!

Thanks to everyone who read and commented on my last journal. We had some great discussions and I feel about 150% better now that this is mostly behind us and we can begin with the recovery, healing, and memorials for those who were killed.  You guys really helped put things in perspective for me.

Thanks a lot for your participation in my recent poll as well! Seems like you guys are interested in the bending pack which is great because I'm really interested in sharing it! I think because the Motion Crouching & Handstands pack is so small and sort of related I will just fold it into the same pack which will be $10.

The collab pack with ~Sinned-angel-stock will come down at the end of April and this new pack will be available.  You guys will start to see the images from the shoot with SAS appearing in both her and my gallery (different images in each, so be sure to watch both!). However, my old stock will still be taking priority until it's all posted so people who purchased the pack still have a big lead on everyone else.  I hope she and I will be able to get together soon for another shoot!  ^__^

A new batch of USB drives arrived the other day so they are available again after a brief out of stock period. I will have them with me at Anime Central and Anime Boston in May. Please come visit me! My table is Sakky's Plush N Stuff.

A few people have asked about my including additional stock on the USB drives (or releasing a second drive) now that I am taking more photos past the original 26 shoots included on the drive.  To clarify: all of the stock taken after Shoot 26 is being sold in advance packs through SenshiStock.com so they won't be added to the drive in the future.  The drive is a convenient kickstart to your personally accessible SenshiStock collection which can then be supplemented by the purchase of new stock as it becomes available. The only exception to this was the shoot with Jade. I know some people have asked me if I can upload a file pack for the shoot he and I did together. DA only allows you to upload files up to 30MB and that whole shoot ZIPed is over 200MB. But if I have time to break them up into packs for easier download, I will. I know it can be a lot easier that way.  

I've had two great photoshoots for the new stock book on which I've been collaborating with some nice folks at the Worcester Photo Studio. I've been hinting about the book for a while now, but I am really hoping to have the prototype ready to show off in person at those conventions that I mentioned.  We have taken some amazing photos for you guys and I know you're going to be stocked about them!

I'm working as an artist full time now, so that's really exciting and fun. I am really excited about the weather getting nice, too. Life is good.

I've tried to write this journal a few times, but I am having trouble finding words.

I live in Massachusetts, so Boston is "my home" when I travel and the city that I most strongly associate with myself. I'm mad. I don't know how to feel about things like this other than to be mad. In an age of immediate and 24 news, it's hard to not know who or why, and endlessly frustrating to watch people fight and blame without any factual information.

I do love the quote from Fred Rogers that has been going around. But I also think about the words of people like George Carlin. Is this just how we live now? I feel like people my age, who were teens during 9/11, live our lives just assuming that any and every day there's a chance we could be violently and senselessly killed by a random act of violence. Does that mean that the people who do these things have succeeded?

It's aggravating and I know it's never going to end.

EDIT: Thank you all for your responses. It's good to talk about this. Apparently the Mayor just announced a fundraising site for people who want to donate called One Fund Boston. I was a little skeptical of the site since it's REALLY bare bones right now, but one friend heard it on national radio and the other said the Mayor announced it himself, so it seems to be legitimate.

Hey guys! So apparently a lot of you did not get the notification about my last journal post in which I rambled about my travels to LA and Sakuracon, and announced the winners of the 50 Hand/Foot Challenge. Sorry about that! Must be one (of many) weird deviantART bugs. ^___^;

That being said, some of the winners were awarded with a feature of their art, so please take a moment to visit and check out these select images from their galleries!

A new drawing challenge should be posted later on this month. You guys have given me a lot of ideas, so thank you!

~Sorachan89
What a talented artist! So many lovely works across multiple mediums! Big fan of the costumes and lovely traditional work, but who can resist PONIES?! Awww they look so soft and cuddly!


*Unicorn-Knight
Check out these awesome fantasty illustrations! The quality and line work in the traditional work is so lovely and the digital work is really powerful!


~Stuff-Swe
Beautiful custom painted shoes and lovely traditional drawings can be found in this gallery. Take a look at some of those SHOES! How cool?!


*nosoart
There's a lot of excitement and variety in this gallery! Here's a little sampling of some of the beautiful and expressive things you can see!


~Chocobosh
Lots of comics and beautiful illustrations here! The comic page is the beginning of the stories so you can start there!

I am leaving for Los Angeles tomorrow! Never been there, pretty excited about it. I'm flying out for the opening of "I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!" to see my Korra Plush in the show!



If you live in the LA area, please consider dropping in! The show is a collaboration between the artist collective PixelDrip and some of the people who work on the Korra show. Lots of really talented artists from deviantART have work in the show and there are prizes and contests during the opening.

While I'm in LA the rest of the time, I plan to go to the science museum to see the space shuttle Endeavor, visit some art museums, and go to a taping of The Price Is Right!  It's very exciting to be going on a trip where I only have to pack one bag (though I feel like I can't possibly have packed everything @__@).

I will be at Sakuracon in Seattle, WA at the end of the month! My table is 406. Here is a map!



I am sharing the table with *jurithedreamer.  I will have SenshiStock USB drives for sale as well as my cute art that you can see on *sakkysa

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Now, onto the prizes for the 50 Hand/Foot Challenge!  First, congrats again to everyone who finished the challenge! There were 102 qualified entrants! You are all heroes to me for getting the project done!!   The winners of the following prizes were selected at random.  Please stay turned for another challenge that will be coming sometime in April! ^___^

Prizes from ~MostlyGuyStock
Unreleased Stock -
Priority Requests -
25 Points -

Prizes from *SenshiStock
A SenshiStock USB Drive - _{(I need you to note me your mailing address, thank you!)}
Advance Download Stock -
Three Month Subscriptions -

I will also be doing a random journal feature for the following artists when I'm done with traveling:

I am sorry there will be a little delay on getting you some of my portion of the prizes due to the timing up against all this traveling I'm doing! Please be patient and I will get in touch with my part of the winners soon!

HAPPY SPRING!

Sorry so many journals lately, I guess there's a lot going on?!  

Update on the stolen stock stuff: most of that artist's work has been taken offline but there has been no contact with the stock providers and they will keeping an eye out for it to pop up again. I posted an update on the original journal, too.

Thank you for your polled feedback on the next advance download stock pack for SenshiStock.com.  The Walk/Run Pack is now available for $3 advance download!  The next pack will be rotated sometime in late March.  I will probably have another poll. As a reminder: advance downloads are for people who want to get the newest stock as soon as possible; all of the stock will eventually be free on deviantART.

One purchase I am considering for the benefit of the stock is this mirror. I think it's insanely cool and I could do a lot of great things with it, but it's SO expensive. I'm not sure if the great expense is worth the potential stock outcome.

I was supposed to have a shoot today with another female and male model but we got 28" of snow in the last 24 hours so we have to reschedule. Disappoint.  

I am going to be at the following upcoming conventions with my art and $20 stock USB drives:
- Queen City Kamikaze - Feb 16, 2013 in Manchester, NH
- Sakuracon - March 29-31, Seattle, WA
- Anime Boston - May 24-26, Boston MA

Please find me in the Artist Alley and say hi!

Congrats to for their DD!


Oh yeah and was my 50,000th (?!) watcher so she gets a subscription! That's a lot of people. You guys should be a town. You can be Sakkyville. 8D

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Current Update, Feb 9: It seems that the artworks created with the DA stock models have been taken down from all sites. This is good news! I hope the artist will be in touch with the models they have used. It seems possible through what I've heard from these models in their research that this artist may have found these images on a 'free stock' site. Please be aware of any site that is set up with a huge variety of fabulous, high quality images for commercial use, for free. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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Original Post:

An Italian artist has been using stock images from DA's portrait models as the source of her professional work without notifying the models or crediting them. In most cases, these models do not allow commercial use of their stock without permission.

Here is a list of models discovered to have been used so far.



(user is no longer active but this deviation used and credited the same stock) used in

=Kxhara was the first to notice the use of her image without permission.

I suspect that since so many of these works share a similar source it is likely that many others in the gallery have their source in DA's stock galleries.

This is a serious matter to which I would like to bring more attention. If you are using someone's face in your artwork, be sure you have that person's permission before you go about selling it.

Sorry for the CAPS SPAM, but this message is *VERY IMPORTANT* and I hope everyone will read it.

Tuxedo Dan - a model who's image is in some older SenshiStock posts - has rescinded his rights for the distribution of his image.  I have moved all images featuring Tuxedo Dan into storage.

NO PHOTOGRAPHIC-BASEED PERSONAL OR COMMERCIAL ARTWORKS ARE TO BE CREATED FEATURING TUXEDO DAN.

If you have photos of him saved in your personal reference folders (or, if you have a SenshiStock USB drive), please note that he has told me that it's still okay for those people to use them for pose reference. You can still draw your own artwork using his poses as a reference, but his photographic likeness must *NOT* be used in any work, commercial or personal.  Please continue to credit SenshiStock in images where you have referenced his likeness and send me links to the work if it's posted online.  His images will no longer be sent out on future USB purchases.

I am sad to have to remove any stock images from the gallery, but I must respect the rights and wishes of my models. I am sure everyone can understand that.

I know that stored images on DA are annoying. I wish they'd make it so they didn't show up in searches and groups and favorites.  However, this seems like the best solution. In the future, if he changes his mind, the images can be restored easily.

Please note: there is also a Moonlight Dan in the gallery. His images are still available and have the same license as before.

Thank you all so much for reading and understanding. I hope that I can reproduce some of the poses that we did in that shoot with another model in the future!

Here's some of my favorite uses of the stock that feature characters with deep and warm skin tones. Please enjoy these lovely works and visit these artists to see the rest of their galleries!

This is a drawing challenge from and !
THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR ENTRY IS LISTED IN THIS JOURNAL OR YOU WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE.
Prizes will be awarded soon! Stay tuned for the next challenge!

Hands and feet are pretty hard to draw. Lots of artists struggle with them! Even when other things come naturally, hands and feet can still be quite a problem. The best way to get better at drawing hands and feet is to study them!

The Challenge: Sketch or draw 50 feet AND 50 hands from reference photos or life.
Deadline: The deadline has passed for this challenge, but you can still participate and make yourself a better artist!

You can post them as one giant post, in groups, one at a time, however you want! But please make a FOLDER in your gallery and put them all in there then send me a link to the folder. (If you do one submission with ALL of them at once, then you don't need the folder.)

HOW TO QUALIFY: In order to make this a little easier for myself, please number your hands and feet. When you have completed ALL 50 hands AND feet, send me a NOTE with a link to the image(s). I will then add you to this journal. Thanks

You don't have to use the stock here; you can reference any photo of a human hand or foot. You can also draw from your own hands and feet, or a friend's. Any reference from life or from a life photo is fine for this challenge. They can be anything from sketches to fully fleshed out illustrations. Feel free to decorate/add accessories so long as the basic structure of the anatomy is still visible.

Prizes will be given at random after the challenge is over. Everyone who completes the challenge will be randomly eligible to receive...

The Prizes:
- SenshiStock USB drive(s)
- dA subscriptions
- exclusive stock
- points!
- features
- ...and more!

Resources:
You can reference any hand or foot stock on dA, but here's some to get you started. Be sure to follow the usage guidelines and rules for any stock provider that you choose! If a resource has two hands, two feet, or a foot and a hand in it, each hand or foot counts separately (so, four drawings with two feet in each drawing = 8 feet towards your total).

HANDS

FEET

BOTH

Be sure to tell me when you've completed the challenge by sending a note with a link to your completed work!!

Completed Challengers

~chockoladien -> [link]
~SoniaLeticia -> [link]
*syo-senpai -> [link]
~kayoru -> [link]
~Pumpulaatti -> [link]
~Ariyx -> [link]
~ruda-maruda -> [link]
=theworldisbehindus -> [link]
~MommaCabbit -> [link]
*Ner-Nowl -> [link]
*BlackCatINK -> [link]
*Odysseus-UP -> [link]
~Sorachan89 -> [link]
~ByMeBeHappy -> [link]
~bakerart -> [link]
~Mondomanusa -> [link]
~Marcotonio-desu -> [link]
*Unicorn-Knight -> [link]
~depizan -> [link]
~scheherazadenerai -> [link]
~Druidling -> [link]
~SANACHI -> [link]
~Icosaedri -> [link]
*ImmortalNostro -> [link]
*nosoart -> [link]
~vinterdragen -> [link]
*girl-n-herhorse -> [link]
=drx777 - > [link]
~Sr-Quixote -> [link]
~lucas-irineu -> [link]
*jemaica -> [link]
~Chocobosh -> [link]
~kaisaki1342 -> [link]
~Nikuda -> [link]
~madwurmz -> [link]
=nominee84 -> [link]
=Lyraina -> [link]
~Plantress -> [link]
~the-b3ing -> [link]
~muslacrima -> [link]
*SpaceCaseMeg -> [link]
*The-Lost-Hope -> [link]
~AdianLaw -> [link]
~Pernilles -> [link]
=Hopfield -> [link]
=Lady-Lumiya -> [link]
~Brzechwa -> [link]?
*Darantha -> [link]
~Avanii -> [link]
~Kuurion -> [link]
~Johansrobot -> [link]
~sh3rryb3ar -> [link]
=starhavenstudios -> [link]
~Writingtotheflames -> [link]
*Smoludozerka -> [link]
~amircea -> [link]
*ShadeGlass -> [link]
~PencilOfGlory -> [link]
~AnneHijme -> [link]
~Cedeera -> [link]
~RPGirl -> [link]
~schattenlos -> [link]
*TheElvishDevil -> [link]
~Stuff-Swe -> [link]
~LittleLifeForms -> [link]
~Satori-dono -> [link]
=iisjah -> [link]
~Frey-ofthe-Arcane -> [link]
~Kiwella -> [link]
=kondouyumi-tan -> [link]
~HederaHiberna -> [link]
~Ayrosia -> [link]
~Elakkiya -> [link]
~melgcabral -> [link]
~FlawlessPocki -> [link]
~whoopzdaisy -> [link]
~monique-conway -> [link]
~Disaya -> [link]
~Strawberries777 -> [link]
~Citizzen -> [link]
~sugar-hi-unicorn -> [link]
*spring-sky -> [link]
~coulrophilicArtisan -> [link]
~1Jade2 -> [link]
~snowny -> [link]
~SchwarzenEulen -> [link]
~Laeez21 -> [link]
*Linnzy -> [link]
~RadSerg -> [link]
*FloraFiduciary -> [link]
*Maivry -> [link]
~iksdeh97 -> [link]
~ChocoCrisp -> [link]
*Cheddar99043 -> [link]
~alexyorim -> [link]
~alonzobartley -> [link]
=LNZart -> [link]
~alexyorim -> [link]
~Foxflake -> [link]
~irysching -> [link]
~MangaOtakuTB15 -> [link]
:demilvolarsumL -> [link] [link]

IF YOU AREN'T ON THIS LIST YOU WON'T BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE PRIZES SO MAKE SURE YOU ARE HERE IF YOU'VE FINISHED THE CHALLENGE!

It's a new year and I have a new website!

Say hi to SenshiStock.com!

This is a really simple, small site to start but I have bigger plans for it! For now, it's a place where you can go to purchase advance downloads of unreleased stock, or to buy the USB drive.  It's also a central hub for SenshiStock social media.  The biggest of thanks goes to Steve Forde for his quick implementation of the site!

There are four packs available for advance download right now: Bird's Eye, Fans, Monster, and the collab shoot with ~Sinned-angel-stock (more about that one below).  The packs will rotate throughout the year allowing you access to different types of stock. These are all stock images that will eventually be available in the gallery for free, but your purchase now allows you early access to them and helps support the creation of more stock!

IMPORTANT: after your PayPal purchase you need to click "Return to Sakky Forde" to be redirected to your digital download. The site has been tested but if you run into any problems let me know.

I have also opened a new twitter account specifically for SenshiStock.

~Sinned-angel-stock Collab Shoot

and

This lovely lady and I got together recently and did a collaborative shoot. We laughed, we cried, we pretended to drink margaritas and puke on each other's feet. >_>



We took 186 photos.  These were our themes:
- comforting, laying with, hugging or holding each other
- finding each other dead or dying
- dancing, party girls, martini glass antics
- being kitty cats
- sword and staff weapons
- bird's eye perspective
- knife fights
- rock, paper, scissors
- some jumping stuff
- and MORE!

Starting today, I will be posting two preview images of this incredible shoot. And ~Sinned-angel-stock also posted two today:


Eventually, the whole shoot will be uploaded to this or ~Sinned-angel-stock's gallery (we're splitting them like we did last time), but it's going to be a while 'til we get to them.  In the meantime, if the previews wet your art appetite and you just can't wait for more, you're in luck!

The entire shoot is now available for an advance download! The price of this sweet pack of awesome is a shockingly low $18 USD. That's less than $0.10 an image folks, cheaper than most smutty magazines!

Please visit SenshiStock.com to purchase the pack.  As always, thanks for your support!

WINNER!

Let me tell you, picking a winner for this contest has been REALLY HARD.  I love all the finalists so much, and for different reasons! I'm kind of excited that we ended up with such a great representation of talent across three media (manipulation, traditional, and digital!).  All all three finalists had really interesting and pointed write-ups, too! I've been pulling my hair out the last few days trying to pick, but I have finally chosen!

The winner is for her beautiful manipulation from this stock image by *Tasastock!  Almost every part of this image was touched and changed with skill and precision resulting in a striking work of art that really pulls the viewer in! 

Congratulations *Juhani!  I will be helping to coordinate your prizes.  And I sincerely thank everyone for participating in the stock, art, and voting portions of this contest!   I will hopefully have a new fun challenge ready for you soon!

In the meantime, if you feel like making some stock: check out this great contest from *kirilee STOCK CONTEST - INSPIRATIONG'day folks,
I am two days over due, but here it is. A contest ONLY for stock!
The theme is 'Inspiration'
And I can hear some of you already going... "What the??? That is a bit BROAD!"
Well there is a twist.
You need to find inspiration from another stock artist.
The idea of this is to push you outside of your comfort zone and create an stock image (or series) that you never thought you would create.
Which other stock artist do you watch and go "Wow!", I wish I could be more like them?
To be clear, this is not having you re-create their image/ series. It is about you taking inspiration from that series and putting your own spin on it
I've done it personally quite a number of times...
inspired ->
inspired ->
inspired ->
inspired ->
inspired ->
inspired ->
RULES

Finalists

The poll is pretty decisive now, hopefully everyone has had time to vote! I will select a winner very soon and post another update! 
The three finalists are:
by
by

by

Semifinalists

Here are the ten semifinalists (in alphabetical order by artist) for the art portion of the In Perspective contest!  They all made skilled use of the stock and wrote interesting and compelling remarks about the theme of self perspective. Please take some time to check them out then vote in the poll to help select the three finalists!

>>> POLL IS HERE <<<



Thanks a lot to everyone who participated and challenged themselves!  What a great turn out!

Congrats to ! Senshistock's 30,000th watcher and winner of a one year sub!

As always, super excited that the stock continues to be inspirational to so many people. Every day I get to see great art from all over the world and it's inspirational!  You guys rock!

Thanks for all the positive feedback on the collab shoot with `jademacalla! I'm so glad you guys are digging it!  There are a lot of images to post and I'm trying to get them up quickly so there's not a lot of waiting for the good stuff.  After the 300 or so images from that shoot are up we will go back to the regularly scheduled (and slightly less epic) SenshiStock posts.

Things that are coming up:
- The In Perspective Contest has a little less than a month left for the art entry portion!
- I have a shoot planned with a male model. I know I've been saying this for like a year but I'm Wicked Serious this time. I will tie him up if I have to! (Hey, that's actually not a bad idea...)
- I have a female martial artist that has said she'd do a shoot with me. Hoping to schedule that before the end of the year.
- There is another AWESOME TOP SECRET PROJECT that I'm working on which I will hopefully be able to tell you more about VERY SOON. It involves a big team of people and some magic.

I lost my job in October so I've been doing art full time since then. It's pretty fun and basically a dream come true. I'm not sure how long I can do it, but I'm really enjoying it for now. Shameless plug: one of my art accounts is *sakkysa so feel free to check that out. ;D

Normally this would mean lots more time to do stock for me but they are renovating my house right now so my bedroom is in my dining room which is where I usually shoot stock. GOOD THING WE HAVE ALL THIS FUN STUFF FROM JADE TO POST IN THE MEANTIME.

ANYWAY! KEEP MAKING ART PEOPLE! It's the best thing EVER! AND YAY *VickVicka!

12/29/12 UPDATE:  The winner of the art portion of the contest is by . Thank you all for playing!

10/22/12 UPDATE: HAPPY 5 YEAR SENSHISTOCKAVERSARY! The randomly selected winner (thank you Random.org) of the stock portion is !  Lucky #7 on the list!  Congrats to her and thank you everyone for providing all these awesome images! NOW, LET THE ART PORTION BEGIN! Art entries should be submitted by note and are due December 17th!

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SenshiStock’s 5 year Stockaversy is coming up so... It’s time for a new contest! This contest will have two parts to it and you are welcome to participate in either or both.  

PART ONE: In Pose Reference Perspective - DONE!!

CLOSED! Congrats to *Tasastock for randomly being selected as the winner!

ENTRIES: [link]

Rules:

1. Put on something tight and pretty form fitting. Underwear or a swimsuit is best, but shorts and a tank top will work, too. Whatever is comfortable!


2. Take a photo of yourself from some kind of extreme perspective that shows some cool foreshortening.  Feel free to get creative with a props or settings!


3. The photo should meet DA’s stock guidelines: more than 600px on each side, not too grainy, nothing overtly sexual


4. Post the stock photo to the correct Stock & Resources category on DA.


5. Send me a note with your entry.

Judging Methods & Criteria:

• The winner was selected at random from all eligible participants, though entering more than once did not give you more chances.

Prizes:
All of the following prizes are awarded to the winner:
1 year subscription to DeviantART
  $25 Amazon gift card
A chibi drawing of any character or couple in this style from ~Strawberry-Dino
A full color drawing from pristinepanda</a>
Artwork from *tenchibaka
A signed, Sailormon related print by ~JessicaMariana
Digital book from ~SereneAutumn
More prizes to be determined! (Do you have a prize to contribute? Please let me know!)

PART TWO: In Your Art Perspective - DONE!!

Deadline was December 17th

ENTRIES: [link]
SEMIFINALISTS: [link]

Rules:

1. YES! You CAN participate in part two if you didn't do part one!


2. Take one of the images created in the first part of the contest (you can find them all here: [link]) and create artwork using the stock as reference or in a manipulation.


3. The artwork can be in any medium but it should be a finished work (no sketches or doodles, doesn’t have to be colored but should look refined)


4. The theme of the work should be related to your perspective of yourself. Think about what drives you, what makes you who you are, and use the artwork to express something about how you see yourself or the world.


5. Be sure to submit your artwork to the correct category on DA.


6.   Send me a note with a link to your entry.

Judging Methods & Criteria:

• I am going to select 10 semi-finalists from all qualifying entries.


• Semi-finalists will be selected based on how well they represent the pose (with allowance for style and composition) or, in the case of manipulation, how well they modify or use the pose in context.


• Additional consideration will be given to adhering to the theme of 'self-perspective' so artists are encouraged to write a little bit about their work and how it relates.


• The ten finalists will be narrowed down to three Finalists by popular poll.


• I will be selecting the winner from the Finalists.

Prizes:
Everyone who enters this portion of the contest with a qualified image will be eligible to win the following prizes:
1 year subscription to DeviantART
  $25 Amazon gift card
Be the director for 5 images in the next SenshiStock shoot (most likely it will be just one model, but I will try to get a second if needed)
Exclusive stock from ^PirateLotus-Stock
Artwork from *tenchibaka
A signed, Sailormon related print by ~JessicaMariana
Art from ~Hail-die-Fuerstin
  More prizes to be determined! (Do you have a prize to contribute? Please let me know!)

All entries must be newly created for both parts of this contest.
*YOU MUST NOTE ME YOUR ENTRY.*  This is so I can keep them all organized.  DO NOT send your entries in a comment or they will not be qualified.  

If you have any questions, just ask! ^__^

~JessicaMariana is holding a SenshiStockaversary contest, too! Check it out here ---> [link]

There's lots of awesome models on DA and lots of great places on the web to find pose reference and stock! Here's a little list of some great places to check out for some quality pose reference stock:


is a group I founded that accepts submissions of stock photos that are useful for pose reference. To be considered, the model must be wearing form fitting clothing or nude. There are separate folders for nude stock. Watching this group will result in quality pose reference stock appearing in your inbox!


Mostly male, mixed undies and nude. Some fem parts.


Her gallery is full of great female reference including some wonderful lying, reclining and sitting poses.


Male stock with underwear on. New gallery!


has a folder of pole fitness stock photos that are really stunning.


has recently started posting a series of images where he's in just some black shorts.  He was already providing amazing action and expressive resources, but this new series is really fantastic for pose reference. There's also some nude stock in the gallery.


provides some high quality stock photos mainly of herself. She's recently hired a male model who will begin appearing in her submissions soon. Her gallery is very well organized and has a lot of awesome packs available for quick download. Her Full Body gallery contains some very nice archery poses which is something people often ask me about.


is a fantastic place to go for male nude stock! There's also a ton of images with more than one model.  If you need man on man action, this is the account to visit!


has a series called "Melted Wings" which contains really dynamic pose images!


has an MASSIVE gallery, many of the female models are nude and make great pose references!


has a few male pose reference images in his gallery as well as a ton of head and face references.


has an amazing assortment of very high quality, professional resources. Some of the models are nude.


A lot of male reference, mostly pretty classical, nude.

Posemaniacs is a fun site with lots of fantastic poses that you can rotate in a virtual space for reference!

Feel free to look through the Model Stock I Love folder in my favorites! This is where I tend to collect stock that I find useful for pose reference.


MERMAIDS.

Got any other pose reference resources you think should be listed here? Please let me know!

Happy drawing!

Other great stock accounts on DA that aren't exactly focused on pose ref but are way cool anyway:
 

SenshiStock has just passed the 1 Million mark for pageviews!

Here are the people who caught a screen shot xD



Anyone else?

It's so exciting!  It's been almost 5 years since the first stock image, Sailor Pose 1, was posted on this account:


Since then, there have been over 1,500 full body pose references posted.  But more importantly, there have been over 11,000 works of art created from the stock.  And that's just the ones I've seen; I can only imagine how many more have been helped, inspired or created because of this account.

This stock account has helped me tremendously with my own art.  It's also helped my friends and helped me meet some new friends, too.  I will go so far as to say that starting this account changed something about Stock & Resources on deviantART.  I think that SenshiStock really was a stock revolution! It made people think about the stock gallery here in a new way, and has lead many other stock providers to venture into the necessary and helpful world of non-nude pose reference!  Every time I get a message from someone that says, "This is what I've been looking for my whole life," it reaffirms the mission with which I began this leotard-laden journey.  

The number of page views an account has doesn't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things, but to me, this upcoming milestone is a symbol of the helpfulness of this kind of stock and a sign that it was needed in the community. It's been FUN! I can't wait to see what the next million page views bring!

As a reminder, the Kickstarter for the Jade/SenshiStock Shoot is still active for a few more days.  Jade added some new SenshiStock related rewards including an advance download of my most recent shoot with the new camera set up.  Take a peek! ^____________^

Thanks for the continued support and KEEP DRAWING!

UPDATE 2 Sorry for the journal spam but Jade added some SenshiStock related incentives to the project so please check it out!

UPDATE! $1,000 goal is REACHED! THE SENSHISTOCK/JADEMACALLA SHOOT IS A GOOOOOOOOOOOO~!

Stay tuned to the Kickstarter Page for future updates and thanks for your support!

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I'm glad you guys were able to check out 's awesome Kickstarter project! The interest has been so positive that he was able to hit his first stretch goal and now added a new, extra special awesome goal!

What's the new special awesome goal?! IT'S ME!!

If Jade can reach $1000 on his Kickstarter page then he's going to fly me down to FL and we are going to do a fantastic mash up weekend of AWESOME STOCK INSANITY. Me doing action stuff, him in a bodysuit (!?) ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN!  If you want to see this shoot a reality, please check it out and consider supporting it! From the page: "If we reach the $1000 stretch goal we will release ALL THE IMAGES on deviantART for use by the community."

Go get all the details in his journal:

Kickstarter Update: 1 Week To Go!UPDATE 5
Hello, Everyone! Thanks so much for the continued support of the Kickstarter project. We're super-excited (and still a bit overwhelmed) about the opportunities this is opening up. We've been busy this week laying a bunch of the groundwork for the character (costume details, modifying gear, etc.) and creating the shot list of all the different poses and attitudes we want to shoot.
We have also added a brief FAQ section to the Kickstarter page that clarifies a few key points. All the project details are here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/94425152/action-packed-cyberpunk-stock-photo-set , and the FAQ section is at the bottom of the page.
Check out the reward section, there's some pretty cool swag for different levels of support. If you know anyone who might be interested in the project, please pass it on.
More soon,
Jade  
UPDATE 4
It is unbelievable to announce that the Epic Stretch Goal, which will result in a collaborative stock pho

Or go right to the Kickstarter Page!

Sometime next week this stock account is going to hit 1 million page views. Hard to believe (that's so many people haha) but I couldn't be any happier knowing how many artists have found what they've been looking for in these pages.  Let's make it a 1 Million Pageview celebration and do something REALLY AWESOME!

If you don't already know about then you might live under a stock rock. But that's okay, because now you do and your action packed stock world will be like a million times more awesome.

Jade is a fantastic photographer and a busy guy. His stock is SO DAMN popular because it's effing cool, that's why. But because he's busy with real life stuff and spends so much time on his professional projects, he doesn't get to play around with stock as much as he'd like.

THEREFORE. He's trying this awesome experiment where he's funding a shoot via Kickstarter. If the project funds, we get AWESOME ACTION STOCK and Jade gets a little dough for his hard work. It's win-win and it's super cheap to participate.

READ ALL ABOUT IT ON HIS JOURNAL
or
GO STRAIGHT TO THE KICKSTARTER PAGE

If you aren't familiar with Kickstarter: the way it works is the money only goes to the project if it funds (reaches goal) in the time limit set. Jade's goal is super reasonable, only $250, and there's a minimum of $1 bid. There are different rewards for different levels of donations so there's something for any budget. Check it out! I'm totally stocked! ^_____^

You guys had a lot of fun with the last batch of "unused" stock, let's see what gems we can find in this one!



Notes: Some of this stock may have actually been used, it's just that there are no comments on it noting use. I am not planing on removing any stock, this is just a little feature to showcase some old stuff in the gallery since it's so HUGE.

Hope you find something new in something old!