An Abominable Fancy

via Richard Sala

Adam Dant, Shoreditch in the Year 3000 Adam Dant has drawn some lovely maps exploring the town of Shoreditch, including this one, based on interviewing the towns residents about where they thought things were headed in the next few centuries.

INT +2 CON +2 Charge Attack Boots of Water-walking Two-Handed Fighting +8 CHR All images by the wonderful Mattias Adolfsson.

Fit this image in your next session: " Rajasthan, India"   by Steve McCurry Edit: Okay, it occurs to me that this post falls under the cultural heading of "Exoticism of the Other," what with the total lack of context and all. Heartfelt apologies. On the other hand, sometimes taking things out of context is a great prompt for creative thinking. So: Yes to taking inspiration from the formal combination of colors and shapes; No to treating people reductively. But you knew that.

  See more of these amazing drawings at her website, sunflower cat .

Julius Klinger, 1909 via Quinourier  Entirely relevant to a ruleset/setting I'm playing with.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Toy design by Jim Woodring

Satyr and Maenad Embrace

Google Image search doesn't know who drew this. My best guess at the signature is "O. Hartford," but I haven't been able to find anyone that fits that name. It's a lovely piece, though. Look at the glossy highlight in that one harpy/sirens hair! If you know anything about this piece or illustrator, I'd love to hear it. Edit: We have an ID! Writer and illustrator Oliver Herford . Wikipedia claims he was called "the American Oscar Wilde," and that he's the one who first said "Only the good die young."

Heinrich Kley

Erte

Dionysus and Satyr, Makron

Sketches by Joel Carroll

Heinrich Kley

The Damage The Damage by Nick Sheehy.

Nymphs and Satyr, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

J. C. Leyendecker was an illustrator in the first half of the Twentieth Century, closely associated with the image of the " Arrow Collar Man ." If you can't quite buy into the notion of " Style as Armor ," here's some inspiration: