Cobwebbed Dragon wrote:
Speaking as someone that's looked for good public domain fantasy art, there is very little out there - if you can't draw (or afford to pay artists yourself), you're basically screwed.
Just a note for people who are looking into this area, it is worth familiarising yourself with the Creative Commons licences. It greatly opens the amount of free art available to you under certain conditions - most commonly that the artist must be acknowledged, and that the work its used in must be noncommercial, or that it can't be altered (note - not all images have all these restrictions, some only have one of them - some have none of them).
With
Cadaver Draconis I had to treat it as a commercial publication even though it's not being sold, but most fanworks will have no difficulty being considered non-commercial unless people are charging for them (which you can't do under the Serpent King licence).
One of the best ways I've found to search for images that can be used in this way is to use the following text string in a Google image search (in the example I am searching for images of Knights).
"Some rights reserved" site:deviantart.com knightDeviant Art is a treasure trove, although the quality is variable and a lot of the good stuff doesn't have a particularly DW feel - but if you look around carefully, you can find some good stuff. These three images are all available for use in a noncommercial document, for example, provided they are unaltered, and the artist is acknowledged. And to me they are DW enough (I might prefer a little more grittiness).
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(Image by Nathan Park, used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.)
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(Image by Nathan Park, used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.)
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(Image by Filip Štorch, used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.)
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(Image by Gökberk Kaya, used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.)
(the last one isn't a Knight, but it came up through searching for them).
If somebody does take this approach, check the specific image is covered under the licence - because of the way this search works, sometimes it shows images that aren't themselves covered but which are related to others that are.
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