@ Katy's Stable: If you had read the 'Assign Avatar' page as I mentioned in my message, you'd understand what a stock image is. It references to this link which explains everything you are asking - https://horseeden.com/forums.php?f=16&t=43 -- please read it.

What if you buy art and the person you bought it from didn't credit it?

Silver Moon Estates said:
What if you buy art and the person you bought it from didn't credit it?

First and foremost, it is your responsibility to ensure any art you purchase is properly credited. If something is reset for lack of credits or failure to follow stock provider rules, contact the artist to have it fixed.

If i use a pencil,paper and pencil crayons,or coloured pencils and i sell my art how do i credit that(just a (c) and my stable number??)

Ive had my picture(avatar/profilepicture) removed because they claimed it was not credited propperly, and that was a profilepic ive had for a long time (my own picture of me and my horse). I made a tiny change in color/hue and reuploaded it. Then a mod took it down claiming that it wasnt propperly credited. (Same picture as i had used for 1 real life year) so because of that i wrote it over the picture in large red writing..

I was hoping to start selling art and drawing art for a few of my own horses on here. How I usually do it is I use several references for seperate parts of the horse when I sketch, then finish up with no reference so the finished image look like no original image. (Eg when I basic sketch I will use one ref for the head, and seperate ones for the feet, head, bodies etc etc)

Do I have to buy an image on Deviant art to use it?

Can I just credit the creator like this https://deskridge.deviantart.com/