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AdorkaStock (formerly SenshiStock from back in the day) and three fellow stock artists/models have put together another fundraising campaign to produce group stock photos. I backed this one and their previous campaign and it's well worth it, if you need pose reference.

Find the campaign here

Every so often when I have a few minutes of downtime, I search stock photo sites for photos I can throw in collections for potential future use. And as with all costumed pictures, I have to ask "Is it cosplay?" because if it's decently accurate cosplay...I can't use it.

I mean... "portrait of armored medieval warrior with sword" my ass.*

OTOH, these guys are evoking the Night Watch costume and character designs from Game of Thrones without straying too far into cosplay territory, so they're usable.

So... Are these two cosplaying anything recognizable?

* If you don't recognize him, that's a decent but not great makeup/wig-wise cosplay of Geralt from the Witcher video games. (that's specifically the video game design; I don't know how/if they differ from the books' descriptions of him.)

This dude:

https://depositphotos.com/portfolio-4447003.html?sh=d2cc707a5da02720b38834ffdc3d79c9

Now, his stuff on this first page ("Best Match" sorting) doesn't seem too terribly bad. It's not good, but it's not terrible

Keep looking. He has badly-lit photos of dead mice, lots of badly-lit photos of insects, close-up photos of what is either cowshit or horseshit, mating cats, badly cropped photos of random houses, out-of-focus pictures of Christmas ornaments and terrible, terrible, terrible art.

I'd say it was a bot account--there's 33K+ photos in there--but there seems to be too much consistency. Also, HE'S ON SHUTTERSTOCK. Also on ALAMY

This actually gives me hope: I have long-term plans of pumping out a bunch of partial artworks--i.e., not a full scene of a landscape with dragon and castle and knight, but one of just the landscape, and one of just the dragon, etc.--and uploading those to microstock sites and OH GOD I AM SO MUCH BETTER THAN HIM.

(It's possible Shutterstock, Alamy, and Depositphotos are all owned by the same people, and dude is one of the owners, admittedly...)

edit So Toby and I have discussed, and noted that the account has only been active for a few months, and we also recalled that Dr Neal Krawetz, of FotoForensics, has written about Russian drug runners using his photo tool as a way to pass coded messages about drug drops (post 1, post 2), and it makes us wonder if they're doing the same thing here.

Did a painting, partially to have more samples of my artwork for my book covers website, and partially because I had a free portrait class from Paintable.cc that's going under a paywall on the 24th that I needed to take a look at. (If I get more time to do art, I may subscribe to Paintable for a few months--the free tutorials I've watched have all been useful, but I'm just not spending enough time on art at the moment to justify the cost.)

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Crossposts: http://telophase.livejournal.com/2761973.html

aaagh I have been stalking this guy's military stock photos for months now, because I am too chicken to just email* and ask what he charges for his pack of 500 military stock photos. I haven't actually don anything with them yet, but they make my fingers itch to paint something using them.

*social anxiety YAY!

iStockPhoto Free Image of the Week. They also have a free vector image and a free video of the month, ~~but I've lost the URLs for those~~ here, thanks to

sleary. :) You can even download the high-res version of the images free. You'll need to make an account on iStockPhoto, but that's easy enough and requires no obligation.

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Is this cosplay?

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