Newly updated with almost 1000 new faves from my account.

ALWAYS check individual artist's rules on their sites... the images featured here vary from completely unrestricted (such stockers are angels on this earth) to "ask before using in any project". Please check this news article [link] if you are unsure of how to properly use stocks or credit resource artists.

My hope is to create a resource for dA artists looking for a collection of some of the best manip, reference and general resource goodies available from across the spectrum of gift-givers on the site. It will be somewhat personal, because—while I generally collect any piece of beautiful stock I run across-- I find a lot of the images while I look for resources for my own pieces. For that reason, you will find strings of particular subjects run together—if they are what you have in mind, it will be a gold-mine for you. Also, your idea of a particular category my differ from mine, so look around… for example, I have a number of formal garden images in my architecture collection, because they struck me as being predominantly “designed”.

If you see an image here that looks close to what you want, use it to link to the artist who made it; chances are that you can find something even more to your liking.

I will start making a general list of stock and resource artists collected here in the next few weeks, posted in this journal alphabetically. Once I sell enough of my prints [link] that I can afford a subscription, I’ll start following stockers from here, and will post “feature” journals with thumbnails.