>>5887964oops, the third link from the top here on YOU... etc and second person narrative
>>5887964was meant to be directed at Reptoid's reply, this one
>>5887821I did like the discussion on woodcuts and museum links
>>5886623something I am trying to build out is an image library referenced from period art work or museum relics and collections my 26.5 gigabyte concept art folder (lol it looks like this
>>5887969 )
is mostly videogame artwork Unreal engine stuff from artstation but those sources are overrun with the LLM generated text prompt AI regurgitation, there are occasionally some thoughtful or mood evocative AI pieces but mostly the AI spam is pollution, not very useful (googl image search also ruined no matter how hard you filter). So in the future, using historical pictures or referenced images from museum collections like
>>5887914>>5887936etc or what the anon linked with the woodcuts at
>>5886623might be a way forward; Durer's knight
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight,_Death_and_the_Devilis basically the pinnacle of the teutonic Elector Count WFRP fantasy look, I myself referenced a mystical Durer meteor painting reverse
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jerome_in_the_Wilderness_(D%C3%BCrer)in my last spaceship quest hehe
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5817888/#5839221The drawback is finding mood appropriate historical artwork or museum artefacts is really hard
Pic related is a random piece of artwork I found. A lot of the self published osr blogs use wikimedia and open source historical artwork collections for their illustrations, I especially like it when some folklore or forgotten faery tale, myth, exactly aligns with fantasy roleplaying iconography hehe
