Crescent, The issue here is that payment from a WELL KNOWN publishing agent is usually the published work and the advertising. It is the same that while I work on my comic I am looking for people interested in supplying me free stuff (things that they would like me to "advirtise") so that they will get free advirting. I'm not famous however, which is why I don't expect many people who sell stuff to be interested. Now we have Shiby here - who has also only JUST started posting on Renderosity (under that name) and who at the time of posting had one of their own pictures up. We don't know this person, we don't know what this person is trying to do, and how do we know that giving this person our copyrighted materal (because like it or not - when you give someone rights to your work, it is very easy for them to abuse those rights) we are not going to be hurt... get a bad name against us... find our works being published elsewhere? See my point?