Armadillo Stock

Word of the day: Licensor. The person(s) giving or selling a license. Licensee. The person(s) getting or buying a license

Word of the day: Copyright. The right to make copies of an original creative work. Copyright automatically goes to the artist once the work is given form. But, creative work in
the U.S. needs to be registered in order to protect copyright through litigation.

Word of the day: Royalty Free, a license that allows multiple uses of the art without requiring additional payments. Rights Managed, a license that requires a royalty payment or license payment for each additional use.

Word of the day: Work for Hire. In the U.S., a “work for hire” contract is when an employer is granted full authorship rights to the employee’s completed work

Some useful vocabulary for licensing your art 🎓

Colorful illustration of an armadillo reading a book, with the text: Tell a Fairy Tale Day

Illustration of Beauty and the Beast

Illustration of the Little Mermaid

Illustration of a character flying through different worlds

Show us your fairy tale art for Tell a Fairy Tale Day! Here's some art from team members @michelerosenthal.com, @kitsnow.bsky.social, and @xanaroker.bsky.social

What's your favorite licensing story? I'll go first. Let me tell you about the fashion brand that licensed my pattern, and the celebrity who wore it.

Meet Mariama, one of our dev team members. Mariama has built a lot of our front end, and we're grateful for her enthusiasm and dedication! 👋

2026: The Year We Launch Hello art friends,

Hello art friends, we're back from our social media break! We have so much in store for 2026, including the official launch of our website in the coming months! 🚀 Read our newsletter for more: armadillostock.substack.com/p/2026-the-y...

A Quick Update Kickstarter rewards are going out, and the site is coming together

Hi art lovers! Our social media team has been taking a well-deserved break after the success of our Kickstarter, but here's a quick update. Digital rewards are going out, and the site is coming together: armadillostock.substack.com/p/a-quick-up...

What a fantastic ending to our Kickstarter. Thank you to everyone who believes in this project as much as I do!

And a special thank you to our marketing team, @xanaroker.bsky.social and @kitsnow.bsky.social, for the work and wisdom that made our grassroots campaign such a success!

Thank you. You did it. With your support the Armadillo Kickstarter is fully funded and then some. This is a solid foundation on which the selfless, volunteer team at @armadillostock.bsky.social can build out a new idea in illustration licensing. Look for more announcements on what comes next. 🙏

🎉 THANK YOU! 🎉 Our Kickstarter is complete, and we've raised an incredible 150% of our goal!! Late pledges are open if you still want to support us or get early artist access.

We couldn't be more grateful as we prepare for the launch of our beta site later this year. Stay tuned for updates!

Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.

I just backed @armadillostock.bsky.social : Licensing for Human Illustrators on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

16 hours left in the Kickstarter!

Meet @emblalunae.bsky.social, another member of our wonderful UI/UX team 👋

18 hours left in the Kickstarter!

Only 24 hours to go!!!

100 backers and 41 hours remaining! Let's gooo!

Hell yeah!

Less than 48 hours to go. Thanks so much to everyone who has backed, posted about, shared or clicked on the Kickstarter link, mentioned it to friends, followed the @armadillostock.bsky.social socials, and just thought about what a game-changing endeavor this can be. THX! Now who will be backer 100?

With less than 48 hours left in our Kickstarter, we'd like to take you on a quick tour of our wireframe!

Only 3 days left in the Kickstarter, and we'd like to introduce you to more of the team! Meet Thom (thomhines.com), a great designer and real sweetheart who joined our UI/UX team a few months back. Thanks for sitting down and talking about the project with us! 👋

Only 3 days left in the Kickstarter, and we'd like to introduce you to more of the team! Meet Thom (thomhines.com), a great designer and real sweetheart who joined our UI/UX team a few months back. Thanks for sitting down and talking about the project with us! 👋

👋 Meet the team

👋 Meet the team

👋 Meet the team

Meet the Armadillo Team: Cassidy Smith, Web Developer. What are you working on? I'm currently building out our account and profile pages. What brings you to the Armadillo team? I'm here because I love the mission and it's a great opportunity to build something to support working artists!

With 6 days left in the Kickstarter, we want to introduce you to some of our team members! Meet @cassidy.social, the newest developer to join the Armadillo Army. With an eye for design and a full-stack set of skills, we're lucky to have her! 👋

Gonna boost this again to let other independent artists know about this upcoming platform! This is probably one of the most promising licensing websites I've seen, especially because they go all in on protecting artists from AI and not nickel-and-diming us in fees. Please consider supporting them!

Definitely keeping an eye on this! I have a huge catalogue of old illustrations that I'd love to license out but not sure how to go about offering them. Having a place to source licensing for those who want to avoid genai would be amazing

We've reached our Kickstarter goal with a week remaining! Thank you for supporting our mission to build a licensing website for illustrators.

What is licensing? Glad you asked!

I'm so proud of the entire Armadillo team, so grateful for the community support, and so ready to build the best licensing website we can build!

🎉 We did it! The Armadillo Kickstarter is funded! 🎉

To celebrate, we can finally reveal our mascot's name, as chosen by you. Meet Arlo Strawberry Armadillo, or Arlo for short.

This was a true grassroots campaign, and we can't thank you enough. You still have 9 days left if you want to support us!

We're so close to our goal!! Help us cross the finish line so we can build an alternative licensing website for illustrators!

Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.

The @armadillostock.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign is getting real close to its funding goal. Even a tiny amount helps get this licensing platform by illustrators, for illustrators, off the ground. Let’s blow by the 🤑 goal and do something positive for a change! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...