The artists who provide stock and resources applications to DA community represent a really significant part not only of this place’s spirit, but also of the site. Every day, at least a new stock provider is born. The reasons are variable; some of them wanna give back to the site; some of them have amazing skills in their own areas and wanna share it with the world. The important thing to notice is: these people do art and let the others enjoy the work, in a free way most of the time. This kind of attitude says a lot about a person – for start, they are generous.

So why there is almost no retribution to their generosity? Or, at least, some respect and recognition?

Every day, we see DA artists being ripped, abused and stolen. Every day we watch amazing artists giving up and deciding not provide stock, or application resources, or even leaving DA because people are rude, disrespectful and annoying. Almost every day I read a journal where the artist complains how people around here say the most horrible things about their art. It goes from “your art sucks” to “It’s pornography”. Meanwhile, hundreds and hundreds of pictures, zips and brushes are downloaded without any credit, any signal of the work was valuable and recognized as somebody else’s job.

Recently, DA lost one of your most incredible stock providers, . And you wanna know why it happens? In her own words:

I re-opened my stock here recently to "test the waters" unfortunately I'm still having trouble with getting half of the people to follow the rules, especially this rule...

"BE CREATIVE! Do NOT use my stock if you're only going to do minor changes. Like only changing (hue/saturation, Texture overlay, burn/dodge tool, text/font on the pic, Changing color tint, only putting a border around the picture, etc, etc.) "

This is only an example. We see people ignoring the rules the stockers write all the time. It happens even to me – me, an average artist of DA. I don’t have millions of pageviews, I don’t have a huge gallery and I did some brushes moved by a “give-back-to-the-community” impulse. But all my brushes sets were massively downloaded – and just a few people respected the rules I established. And there aren’t so hard, wanna check out?

RULES:

* If you download, please it!

* If you use, please give me the credit (adding my icon
in your comments) and send me a link back, so I can check it out and as well.

How hard this could possible be?! Take less and three seconds to favorite something. I’m not a horn; I just consider this is the easiest way to show to other artist that you liked the work enough to download it. If the major part of people looks incapable to do something this simple, I won’t even talk about comments or notes. It may be too hard *sarcasm mode ON*.

*sarcasm mode OFF*

I really wish there was a way to guarantee recognition to Stock providers. Maybe turning the : +fav: a request to download the files. I don’t know how this kind of thing would work in the site; but, at least, we would not be stolen by people who are supposed to belong to the same community as us. I wonder if the virtual attitudes reflect how those people act in the real life as well – if they are just plain rude, consider stealing things and claim other people’s work as their own as normal activities, or if they can’t read, or respect, rules. Maybe a mix of all this. It’s sad, and impolite, and it’s the kind of attitude which says a lot about so many people around here – and also, about the world we live today.

To close this little article, I wanna apologize in advance of any writing/spelling mistakes – English isn’t my first language but, as I wanted these words to reach a bigger amount of people here, I decided to write it in a way it would be more easily understandable. And, as homage and a big THAN YOU to these artist who still doing amazing stock works, I decide to feature my own personal favorites Stock Providers. If you are one of the artists around who respect and credit your sources, go visit them. If you are one of these rude thieves, please stay away.