Art Resources for Broke TTRPG Creators!
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Art Resources for Broke Creators lists a wide variety of links and places to look for if you need art for your TTRPG project but the budget is not there yet!
More and more people seems to think AI art is the solution when you are on a budget, but there are countless of resources out there for you, and that's why we made this!
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Have you considered adding another Quebec GLBTQ+ artist that releases LOTS of free resources?
Dyson Logos has well over 500 free maps for TTRPG use and is constantly adding more to the collection, and some include illustrations.
We had planned to add more to this document as we find more resources out there. We unfortunately don’t know everyone and everything, and we wanted to at least have a small selection to start with!
But yes, we will add them and a couple of others we have found in a future update!
This is good for when you intend to use art of things which already exist. But in order to make original art (that is, images which have not been created and have important details which you won’t be able to find on any pre-existing image collection) with low budget the only viable option is AI. Collections of images are limited, but AI (and people) allow for boundless posibilities of images to match what one is especifically looking for in the image.
This argument above isn’t a moral one, just an examination of facts. You can still declare that AI is morally wrong and still agree with me on this.
As a side point, I myself think that it’s not wrong to use AI in a moral sense. For those who want to know why, I think that this thread explains it well: https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunismMemes/comments/1axko7b/comment/krp1wdf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button. Before it I was kinda neutral on the topic, but after I had read it I got a decent basis to hold the position that I have now.
Agree to disagree on the case of AI. Art is a job like any other and people making it deserve to be paid. AI rip off the hard work of those people to make flavorless art. The Reddit thread seems pretty antagonistic towards artists by calling them bourgeois with delusions and shit. An image on the internet does not equal public domain and usable by everyone for free (including to feed AI), they are protected by copyright laws. If you don't have the means to buy original art, nothing stops you from putting placeholder art temporarily.
There are very affordable artists out there doing really cool things, so at this point IDK. Unfortunately, it's like everything else, if you don't have the means for something, you are not entitled to a way to have it for free because YOU don't have the money. Placeholder art and early access are there to feed your project and allow you to add unique art to it! If your project is cool people will finance it and help you. If you are open to it you can even learn how to draw and it's an infinite well of free art!
I have no addition to this argument. I had no other way to reach out to you than here.
You gave me 5 stars on one of my projects to compensate for some jerk giving me 1 star for an AI cover image (despite saying I have no artistic talent myself and having ZERO other artwork).
I see you. I appreciate you. From the bottom of the heart in my freezer: Thank you 🫶
To you! Your repply was so wholesome. You made my day.
Machine Learning remain, regrettably, tightly bound to its source images. Full post on the limits.
Here's one at the Library of Congress (though judicious searching in the digital collection can get a wider net, these are pre-curated): https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/
Oh that's awesome! I'll note it for the eventual expanded PDF with more resources!