Art and Inspiration in RPGs
Ernest Biéler. L'eau mysterieuse, 1911 I have been looking around for resources in order to collect art and images to use as props and worldbuilding materials for tabletop games. There is no substitute for personal knowledge of art but here are a few things I've found. Ben L. at Mazirian's garden has a post about his creative process and one of thing he does for inspiration is to scour the web for artistic reference points, which he compiles into Pinterest collections on various themes. I asked Skerples at Coins and Scrolls where he finds the art posted on the blog and he mentioned ArtStation and has other Wikimedia Commons. ArtStation is very good for all sorts of artists, particularly genre-based artwork for games. You can look at portfolios to get a sense of technique and subject matter. I'm not sure of fair use rules so I won't post anything here but the quality is excellent. Wikimedia commons has a lot of public domain artwork and also has audio and video