Favourite Art?

[fireinthedust]

I'm putting together a package for some players of mine, for entirely personal use. However, text alone can be bland, and I want to spruce it up with some art. I'm looking for some great art for basic, generic concepts: the classes, skills, traps, equipment, races, magical items, the works. I won't be publishing it, just finding the best art ever and collecting it for them to see and think about.


My group is really new to RPGs in general, and I'm looking for the best art of the hobby and fantasy to get them a good overview and into character, and imagining possibilities for their heroes, villains, and so forth.


Any art suggestions? Links here would be great!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Buy some Everway or M:tG cards.

 

[fireinthedust]

There is that.

However, I was thinking more along the lines of putting it together in a document and printing them as player handouts and document illustrations. Nothing kills the atmosphere as fast as "you see three of these horrible creatures!" "Oh no, 7/5?! I run away!" or, worse "meh, they're all commons. Can't be that tough converted over."

Also, if I buy the cards I'd have to find good ones, scan those, crop the stats off, put them into a document so people can see them, and hope they don't look like a dog's breakfast when I'm done.

That and I was hoping for some idea of illustrations that really floats the boat of the folks on these boards.

Google searches are already under way (so no, I'm not getting you to do my work for me, I've already done a bunch), but this is for things I wouldn't think of or that I may have dismissed.

Either way, we can look at some great art.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A lot of museums & galleries have online pix that you could use- odds are they're going to be more classical mythology than fantasy, though.

The Everway cards, FYI, are actually just art, much of it iconic art from artists like Rowena, Frazetta and Achellios. Another to look for Hyborean Gates cards- art by Vallejo and Bell.

I don't think scanning (or photographing) this stuff and putting it in a document is all that difficult, especially if you just use PowerPoint or some such. Wouldn't evn need to print it.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'd say also do a deviant art and conceptart.org search. Over on da you will find some gems, but over on conceptart you'll find alot of good images you can pilfer for a personal project.

-Posted via mobile device.

 

[Summer-Knight925]

Anything from the AD&D books, the BECMI sets, I would recommend DCC RPG for the art alone. Magic cards, Conan comics (any Dark Horse is good, Marvel and DC are more super heroes, but still good art) the interwebs, 3e & 4e books.

The list can go crazy, but I would say AD&D books and DCC RPG would be best.

 

[Razjah]

Also, if I buy the cards I'd have to find good ones, scan those, crop the stats off, put them into a document so people can see them, and hope they don't look like a dog's breakfast when I'm done.

You could try the Magic wallpaper archive. Sure it isn't always the best, but the card information isn't on it and you can get different sizes to help with scaling.

d20pfsrd.com has art for most or all of the PC classes. Can you use that?

 

[RangerWickett]

A lot of Magic artists have galleries on their personal websites.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

There's also Google's image search.

EDIT: At some point I went over 1000 posts and didn't realize it!

 

[Mercutio01]

Wizards has a ton of art archived on its website (Magic, D&D, and even Dreamblade stuff, still). Also look at ArtOrder, and all the different art blogs out there like Muddy Colors. There is also always DeviantArt.