http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-14487083-gift-ribbon.php

odd - this looks to be available

Ah! I clicked on a few of the other image links in his description and also on his profile link and maybe he's back now. Looks like it! :-)

ETA: I clicked around more within his images. Portfolio pages still don't exist but perhaps it's all getting re-populated at the moment ... hoping anyway. :-)

Quote from: sweetgirll on April 14, 2011, 14:53

I was wondering if Russel illustrations are still available for licensing?
But without the profile I don't know how to find it.

you can try to contact him through his website:

http://www.russelltate.com/

Ah, good idea. I also happened to notice that he still has SOME illustrations at Getty images website. Nowhere near what he had at istock, though. I was surprised to see that actually since Getty and istock are related now.

All in all, despite the problems, I'm very glad I jumped in to being a vector contributor. I'm making additional income that is so nice, I can work on images whenever, it's another creative outlet that I especially enjoy, and I've met lots of nice people so far. I've been doing this just over 2 years now - exclusive istockphoto vector contributor. It's been a very good fit for me and an excellent business decision.

Quote from: skdesigns on April 12, 2011, 03:03

Quote from: vlad_the_imp on April 12, 2011, 01:42

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I also wondered if istock had yet another horrible bug that was causing entire portfolios and people to disappear.

Let's not start scaremongering. It isn't a bug.

Of course not, and I wasn't at all implying that within the context of where you extracted that part. I initially wondered why he so mysteriously disappeared - if there was another bug, if he had voluntarily left, or just what. And in my very first sentence of my post above I stated that I wasn't about to speculate. :-)

Skdesigns... We (the reasonable readers) all understood your meaning and that you were concerned, not speculating. vlad the impaled just likes to quote out of context.

Oh OK. Good to know. I'm new to the forums here. I recognize a bunch of fellow istock contributors but that's it. Thanks! :-)

Quote from: jamirae on April 08, 2011, 12:54

I find it hard to believe the turorial thing is the issue.  I would guess that it is something else that istock considers more serious. But what that could be i dont know.

When I emailed him, he didn't mention the tutorial thing, but something else from the past.  He hasn't been in contact since.

I don't even want to consider speculating about what happened. I'm the one who wrote the post at istock asking about him. I'd just seen a few new vector images of his on the Latest Illustrations pages, thought I'd check on other images of his in my lightboxes and started getting the File Not Found error, then his portfolio and member page gone. I had no idea what to think or why it all disappeared. In addition to being concerned for him, I also wondered if istock had yet another horrible bug that was causing entire portfolios and people to disappear.

At any rate, I'm very sad that his work isn't at istock now, regardless of the reason, and I hope he's able to return. Love his work. He's also seen like such a nice guy and so helpful in the forums, too. -sigh-