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I don't know if it counts as inspirational fantasy artwork, but I often look out for stunning scenery to adapt. I gather scenery photos as I stumble across them. Preferably Community Commons licensed stuff.

Like I saw a pretty picture on wikipedia- don't recall how I stumbled upon it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fossi ... ascape.jpg

So as a demonstration for this post I just googled to find a decent monk in a robe, smack him in there, put a little haze on top to make a proper Gloom scene.

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I follow a similar pattern when hunting art. I have a bit saved on hard drives, but usually don't have many particular galleries that I go to specifically. I've downloaded a fair bit from Avoracio's fun photobucket he's been linking. Sadly this means most of my stuff is from a scattering of locations.

I did find this page for Kekai Kotaki which I tracked down when someone posted a humorous captioning of Image

Maybe I can find some other artist gallery links another time. I may have saved some on another less-used computer but there don't appear to be more on this lappy.
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www.cghub.com

Protip: just find an artist whose work you like, (such as my mentor Thomas Scholes or the phenominal Wes Burt, Jason Chan, Min Yum... too many of my idols to name really,) and browse their favorite images. Cuts out a lot of the flotsam and gratuitous boob-loving cghub users tend to overvalue, leading to a clutter of stonkin' TITS in the front page cluster. This way, it's like having a curator.
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"Those who fail to learn history
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those who fail to learn history correctly--
why they are simply doomed."
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Those are search links rather than direct links to the images. If other images become more popular, those links will point to different things.
To get the permanent link, click the title of the work.

Permanent links below:
Escargot
Fun with animated objects? (Gingerbread men).
The reason the mansion was cheap.
Zombie dinosaur!
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oh thanks did not know that but will remember for the future
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Airship Armada:
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Creepy Dude under Eldritch Sigil
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Eggman
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Draconian
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Super Lich
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City of Chained Titans
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Wereboar Mercenary
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Inferno Armor
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Painter of Horrors
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The Necromancer, Hexen II (I find the backstory makes for a pretty funny hero motivation)
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Wereboar Mercenary? You mean Bebop? :p

Now you just need to find a matching wererhino.
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RobbyPants wrote:Wereboar Mercenary? You mean Bebop? :p

Now you just need to find a matching wererhino.
Anything that has Bebop and Rocksteady, or any of the Turtles or Foot Clan, becomes totally awesome.
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Fanart for Limbo
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Final Fantasy Blade Biter
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Final Fantasy Masterberry
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Bowser's Castle
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Revived with Phoenix Down
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Magus
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Samus on a cliff in the rain
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Bowser
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All is smoke and fire.
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Avoraciopoctules wrote: Wereboar Mercenary
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Isn't that Bebop from TMNT?

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Darth Rabbitt wrote:
RobbyPants wrote:Wereboar Mercenary? You mean Bebop? :p

Now you just need to find a matching wererhino.
Anything that has Bebop and Rocksteady, or any of the Turtles or Foot Clan, becomes totally awesome.
http://Daverapoza.com seems like your one-stop destination for such things. Also some awesome Power Ranger, He-Man, Thundercats and whathaveyous.

The first Rocksteady is my only linked image not by Rapoza. Tis done by Jason Heuser who has his own gallery full of awesome pics that you may have seen here and there. http://sharpwriter.deviantart.com/gallery/


Rocksteady
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RBS
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Splinter
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CJ
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AO
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K wrote:Isn't that Bebop from TMNT?
Heh, considering it is by Jason Heuser and he has BEBOP written on his armor plate, I find that to be a reasonable conclusion. =-D
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Re: Bebop

So it is. I didn't recognize the pic at first, given that it was presented in a context where I was more focused on something else.
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Aztec Warriors
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I don't think I could handle getting my ass kicked by someone duded up like Max from Where the Wild Things Are.
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I've been reading some aztec-fantasy novels, and it's always hilarious when I close my eyes and imagine what the characters actually look like.
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I mentioned that uniqueLegend draws amazing portraits earlier, but I didn't post any examples. Here's a few more from her gallery.

Young Ganondorf
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Connor (Assassin's Creed 3)
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Assassin's Creed Style Link
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Thor and Loki (Avengers)
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Samurai
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WotC map "Embassy"
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Freaky-looking 4-sided Outsider
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River Bridge below Massive Tree
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Ghost-filled Cathedral
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Mountain Fortress (Winter)
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Hidden Jungle House
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Desert Ruin, Tower in Massive Pit
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Fiery Magic Missile Barrage
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Road to Vinci Airbase
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Sorceror from NotIndia Character Portrait
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4E Devourers
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Soulbound Armor
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Tristram
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R'lyeh Ruins?
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Postapocalyptic Fighter Archetype
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Dwarven Mastercraft 1
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Dwarven Mastercraft 2
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Earth Elemental (Humanoid)
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3 Undines
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Elf Mage/Rogue
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Dark Elf Knight
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Illithid Knight (Might have posted already)
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Sheikah Eye
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Hero Training?
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Best-possible scenario for next encounter in Crypts of Chaos
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Coastal Village (Stormy)
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Elf Druid
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Knight
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Undine 3, Creepy Filter Edition
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Cronqvist
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Desert Duskblade
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Zawu
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Lycanthrope assassin?
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Clockwork-powered armor-wearing gunner
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Elf nazi?
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Scarred monk
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Probably a bit less "fantastic" than the average here, but I'm a sucker for alternate history/paralel worlds, and the gates of Pixiv Fantasia are open already. I like to think these are Imperial War Wizards or something arriving for some warship duty.

EDIT: Fixed the link. Hot-linking from a members-only site like Pixiv wasn't a smart movie.

EDIT PS: I saw other images from this set and the things they carry are rifles, not swords. A bit less cool than I thought. Also, the girl has a japanese schoolgirl skirt as part of her uniform and this tends to make me stop liking things. At least on this pic the skirt isn't visible.
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Your image doesn't work for me, nockermensch.

Shanoa in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia was pretty cool. I wonder if there's an RPG that would let me play something like that.
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Preview art for Age of Wonders III:
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