Need some help finding some good art as visuals for game


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Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone knew either a good website that features a variety of fantasy art that I can browse to obtain the right visual aids for my campaigns. One of the things that I do need to find is a really good picture of a nightmare (the horse one, not your generic nightmares), and other mythological creatures. I'm also looking for creepy scenery and etc. I appreciate any help. I already found a few websites but there is so much more than I can handle and I know I can rely on the good taste of the Paizo community, ;)

Cheers

CB out.

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I find a lot of inspiration for characters and villians at Fantasy Art Gallery


I do this myself but don't use any specific site. What I do is go into Google and click the link at the top right which says "images". This essentially uses Googles search engine but only picks up images that have your search quarry as a tag. I've been pretty succsessful with this approach.

For example when I went looking for a horse version of a nightmare I came up with this image as my favorite in the few pages I looked at.

I find this approach works better if your looking for something specific then checking out a fantasy art gallery or deviant art etc. because its so difficult to find specifically what your looking for on such a gallery. On the other hand a fantasy art gallery like the one listed above is a phenomenal resource if your looking to be inspired.

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Deviant Art in the Fantasy section.
Most of it is creatures and characters but there is a fair amount of scenery also.

Nightmare. Here is one I found doing a search. There are a ton more also.

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There are some different styles here so have fun...


Sorry I have not replied with thanks earlier (been working overtime since October until only last week) but my many thanks to all of you who have chimed in with your suggestions. I greatly appreciate it! :)

CB out.


www.elfwood.com is huge and searchable. Quality varies but I have seen amazing stuff there.


Maybe obvious, but I've found the online supplements for Dungeon magazine here at Paizo's site and the image galleries over at WotC's to be very useful.

The former should have most if not all of the artwork from the adventures.

The latter should have pretty much any image from any WotC rulebook. Although I have not been to WotC's site since before 4e hit (I got a "forbidden by ratings check" message one day and haven't been back since - that was my work PC; the home PC is dial-up only and way too slow for plain text, much less fancy graphics), so I can't promise their 3.x galleries are still online. But I imagine they're there somewhere...

Kang

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