Where to buy art

[Michael James Smith]

Anita, I too have been searching for months for wildlife art, and its been very time consuming drawing my own. I just came across this site www.scmsysteminc.com/index.php they appear to be some very detailed pen and ink drawings. Look under designs for stencils Their cds are on closeout right now. I ordered 2 of them but I have not yet recieved them so I'll have to let you know how they look when I get them.

[Bill W. White]

If you search Tandy leather they sell designs for leather toolers that are great source of western rodeo scenes and all sorts of cowboy stuff etc.I bought there books years ago to use in sandcarving and it would be perfect for laser application

[George D Gabert]

We use plasma cam art disks for cutting metal. they are a little pricy but the artwork is good. Their web site is http://www.plasmacam.com/projectsart.php.

[Peter Zacarelli]

I use iStockPhoto dot Com. They have all sorts of graphics, images and photos. They are royalty free and usually come in both jpg and eps. The prices vary depending on the art and usually for a little extra money you may reproduce the art and sell retail. There system works by becoming a member which is free, then you buy credits. Each art work is x amount of credits. After paying you download the art and use it. You can browse around there site and see if there is any art that interest you.

[Ben Sieber]

I also use iStockphoto.com quite often. Its a great source for ideas, vector artwork (great quality) and photos for themed engravings. I haven't found any other resource with as resonable of a pricing structure as istockphoto.

[Micheal Donnellan]

Can some please explain iStockPhoto's restrictions to me in relation to what we do with laser engraving for resale. I fam constantly getting confused with such legal documents as not a lawyer.

its the "you may not".."use the Content"".""or other items for resale, license or other distribution for profit" is confusing me.

sorry

[Micheal Donnellan]

Can some please explain iStockPhoto's restrictions to me in relation to what we do with laser engraving for resale. I fam constantly getting confused with such legal documents as not a lawyer.

its the "you may not".."use the Content"".""or other items for resale, license or other distribution for profit" is confusing me.

sorry if I seem to be posting this sort of Q a lot I just need some sort of clarity on the matter.

[Dan Hintz]

Michael,

Most of the legalese out there typically says you can use the artwork for your projects, but you cannot take the original image and repackage it for sale (i.e., you can etch the image without royalties, but you cannot take the original tiff, gif, vector, whatever file itself and sell that to other shops/customers). Fair use laws may be different in Ireland than in the US, but I would imagine it's pretty close in these cases.

[Micheal Donnellan]

ah, OK then. Makes it a bit better to understand. The restrictions under commercial rights in these licences are what confuses me.
Does laser count as "printing" or more of a "manufacturing" process. I would be the thinking its printing in general but you have to make up the final product art other times. The laser “print” being just one part.

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any way of removing the double post?

[Roger McDowell]

Take a look at the Department of Fish and Wildlife Drawing Site.

http://www.fws.gov/r9extaff/drawings/drawing.html

Regards

Roger