Free stock photography can great great for low-budget or…no-budget projects.  In a lot of cases you get what you pay for, but there’s some really nice shots hidden in there too.  Some resources that I like to use are:

http://sxc.hu/
http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://www.freestockphotos.biz/
http://www.rgbstock.com/
http://pixabay.com/

I contribute to stock exchange myself. Also, if you’re looking for textures you’ll have a much easier time finding some free resources.  There’s a lot of different texture websites out there, but my favorite so far is:

http://www.cgtextures.com/

A few more that have some restrictions:

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net
You can only get very tiny photos here

No longer free u.u

http://www.stockfreeimages.com/
They only allow you to download one photo for free

These are some items/avatars I made for an online pbbg called Psypets I made them all as contest entries and several of them were chosen as winners 🙂

These are bunch of sprite edits I’ve done for some games I used to play 🙂  Plese note, these are just edits the original artwork is not mine 🙁  The bases are either from gaiaonline or ragnarok online

MAJOR EDITS

MEDIUM EDITS

MINOR EDITS

From the Nintendo DSI Shop is this very cool little paint program called “Art Academy: First Semester”  It really gives you the feel of traditional pencil/paint set 🙂  My favorite features is that you can save the images to your DSI then post them to facebook or transfer them to your computer with an SD card!  So the following are some of my doodles from this nice little portable art studio: