{"title":"Stock Art","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-eastern-collection-1","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Eastern Collection 1","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Eastern Collection 1\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamurai, oni, demon cats, a techno-ninja and a jade unicorn. A broad sweep of Eastern-inspired fantasy, from folklore and swordplay to pulp strangeness and supernatural unpleasantness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEastern Collection 1\u003c\/strong\u003e contains 16 image files representing 15 distinct illustrations by Brad McDevitt. The Fu Manchu portrait is supplied in both colour and greyscale, while the rest of the collection mixes monochrome linework with several full-colour pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe selection includes warriors, monsters, magical figures and larger scenes suitable for samurai fantasy, supernatural horror, martial-arts pulp and other settings drawing upon East Asian imagery. There is a haunted Japanese interior, a samurai confronting an oni, demon cats behaving exactly as cats would if granted occult powers, and a display of chi energetic enough to settle most theological disputes from across the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt’s strong inks and expressive old-school style make these illustrations useful for role-playing games, adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction and other projects requiring artwork with a little grit, movement and personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eContents\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood and Entrails\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSexy Street Samurai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDragon Lady\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechno-Ninja\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGiant Dinosaur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJade Unicorn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOni\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePunk Naga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFu Manchu – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFu Manchu – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePagan Goddess Statue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerpent Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamurai and Oni\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChi Powers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese Demon Cats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFormat\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 image files representing 15 distinct illustrations:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 TIFF files\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 PNG files\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLicence\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29167634710592,"sku":"BMA001","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/tile.PNG?v=1560857436"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-1","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 1","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 1\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wererat enjoying its supper, an undead wizard, a primordial slug and enough incarnations of crawling chaos to suggest that somebody has been reading books best left chained shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Collection 1\u003c\/strong\u003e contains 16 TIFF files representing 14 distinct illustrations by Brad McDevitt. The Blood-Crawling Chaos piece is supplied in three different treatments, offering colour and monochrome options for different layouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from character and creature illustrations to occult scenes and useful fantasy spot art. There are mummies, gargoyles, rat-infested remains and sinister weapons, alongside a dragon lady, a barbarian pin-up and a massive magical display for those occasions when a tasteful little sparkle simply will not do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt’s bold linework and expressive, old-school style make these illustrations well suited to role-playing games, adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction and other fantasy publications requiring artwork with rather more personality than the usual polished digital mannequins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eContents\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood-Crawling Chaos – black-and-white treatment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood-Crawling Chaos – colour treatment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood-Crawling Chaos – alternate monochrome treatment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMummy Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRat and Skull\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWererat Feeding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter Portrait – CAC258\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarbarian Bimbo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGargoyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoon Worshipper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrimordial Slug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Sword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloody Moon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDragon Lady\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUndead Wizard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMassive Spell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFormat\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 TIFF image files representing 14 distinct illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLicence\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29167734259776,"sku":"BMA001","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Fantasy1Tile.PNG?v=1560857869"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-2","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lich, a giant dinosaur, three witches and a wizard summoning something that may prove less grateful than anticipated. Just another quiet afternoon in the fantasy publishing trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 2 contains 16 TIFF files representing 14 distinct illustrations by Brad McDevitt. The assortment covers heroes, villains, monsters, magical encounters and several characters whose intentions are unlikely to survive close scrutiny. Two pieces are supplied in both colour and greyscale treatments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside useful character portraits such as the tough guy and prophet are larger scenes depicting war with a giantess, death in a warehouse and the summoning of a nature spirit. The collection also includes a scarlet sorceress, an evil faerie, a frogman, a siren and a jaded warrior whose costume suggests that armour budgets have once again been diverted elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuitable for role-playing games, adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction and other fantasy projects in need of expressive, old-school artwork with monsters, magic and a healthy disregard for good judgement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Tough Guy\u003cbr\u003e• Prophet\u003cbr\u003e• Giantess at War\u003cbr\u003e• Lich\u003cbr\u003e• Witches’ Trio\u003cbr\u003e• Alien Female\u003cbr\u003e• Giant Dinosaur\u003cbr\u003e• Scarlet Sorceress\u003cbr\u003e• NSFW Jaded Warrior\u003cbr\u003e• Sexy and Sinister Siren\u003cbr\u003e• Warehouse Death\u003cbr\u003e• Wizard Summoning a Nature Spirit\u003cbr\u003e• Generic Evil Frogman – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Generic Evil Frogman – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Evil Faerie – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Evil Faerie – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFORMAT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 TIFF image files representing 14 distinct illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29185308393536,"sku":"BMA003","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Tiles2.PNG?v=1560931010"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-3","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn oni, a seraphim, a phantom skull and the frozen remains of somebody who should have packed a heavier cloak. Fantasy remains a dangerous occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 3 contains 16 TIFF illustrations by Brad McDevitt, covering characters, creatures, victims and locations for fantasy role-playing games and related projects. The selection moves from colourful supernatural beings to stark monochrome horrors, with plenty of potential allies, enemies and extremely discouraging discoveries along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are witches, liches, amazons and orcish pirates, along with a dire wolf, a mysterious Lavinda and a cavewoman whose wardrobe has made only a token concession to the climate. Larger scenes include an evil overlord’s tower, a mountain encounter and a golden medusa tableau, while the dead villagers and savaged remains should help establish that the local authorities have lost control of the situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuitable for adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction, handouts and other fantasy publications needing expressive old-school artwork without the delay and expense of commissioning every supernatural atrocity separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Oni\u003cbr\u003e• Seraphim\u003cbr\u003e• Lavinda\u003cbr\u003e• Amazon\u003cbr\u003e• Laughing Witch\u003cbr\u003e• Lich in Hood\u003cbr\u003e• Evil Overlord’s Tower\u003cbr\u003e• Dire Wolf\u003cbr\u003e• Dead Villager\u003cbr\u003e• Phantom Skull\u003cbr\u003e• Frozen Peasant\u003cbr\u003e• Slightly NSFW Cavewoman\u003cbr\u003e• Savaged Remains\u003cbr\u003e• Golden Medusa\u003cbr\u003e• Mountain Encounter\u003cbr\u003e• Orcish Pirate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFORMAT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 TIFF image files representing 16 distinct illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29187449421888,"sku":"BMA004","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Tiles3.PNG?v=1560940718"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-4","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA weretiger, a punk naga, several deeply untrustworthy wizards and a crow carrying an eyeball. There was presumably a perfectly reasonable chain of events leading to all this, but it has not survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 4 contains 25 image files representing 16 distinct pieces of Brad McDevitt’s fantasy artwork. Several illustrations are provided in alternate colour, black-and-white or greyscale treatments, while others are supplied in both TIFF and PNG formats for easier use in different layouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection mixes monsters and sinister characters with dramatic scenes, useful spot illustrations and fantasy objects. There are liches, demons and mystics, frightened peasants, magical displays and a pile of treasure almost certainly positioned over a pressure plate. A human-skin grimoire is also included for publishers who feel ordinary leather lacks sufficient moral bankruptcy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuitable for role-playing games, adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction and other fantasy projects requiring strong, expressive artwork with an old-school gaming character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Weretiger – PNG\u003cbr\u003e• Crow and Eyeball – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Crow and Eyeball – black and white\u003cbr\u003e• Crow and Eyeball – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Lich – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Lich – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Riot in Rome\u003cbr\u003e• Cleric’s Power\u003cbr\u003e• Frightened Peasant\u003cbr\u003e• Royalty and Peasantry\u003cbr\u003e• Tattooed Mystic\u003cbr\u003e• Wizard’s Knock Spell\u003cbr\u003e• Punk Naga – PNG\u003cbr\u003e• Wizardly Illusion\u003cbr\u003e• Jungle Girl – colour PNG\u003cbr\u003e• Jungle Girl – colour TIFF\u003cbr\u003e• Jungle Girl – greyscale PNG\u003cbr\u003e• Jungle Girl – greyscale TIFF\u003cbr\u003e• Fu Manchu – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Fu Manchu – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Summoned Demon\u003cbr\u003e• Fantasy Treasure Pile – PNG\u003cbr\u003e• Fantasy Treasure Pile – TIFF\u003cbr\u003e• Human-Skin Grimoire – PNG\u003cbr\u003e• Human-Skin Grimoire – TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFORMAT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25 image files representing 16 distinct illustrations:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 19 TIFF files\u003cbr\u003e• 6 PNG files\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29188112121920,"sku":"BMA005","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Tiles4.PNG?v=1560945168"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-5","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome treasure is guarded. Some treasure has tentacles. Some treasure has been bound in human skin, which ought to be considered a warning rather than an invitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 5 contains 16 image files representing 13 distinct pieces of Brad McDevitt’s fantasy artwork. Colour and greyscale alternatives are supplied for several illustrations, while the collection as a whole runs from monsters and magical curiosities to comic characters, decorative elements and creatures of a distinctly peculiar disposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere you will find troglodytes, a giant spider, a four-armed demon and a dwarven pixie, along with a ghostly rabbit, an armed mouse and an insane hippie whose condition has apparently survived the transition into full colour. There are also banners, treasures, a pagan statue and a grimoire manufactured according to the least ethical traditions of bookbinding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuitable for role-playing games, adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction and other fantasy projects requiring artwork with strong lines, old-school character and little interest in behaving respectably.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Human-Skin Grimoire – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Troglodyte – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Troglodyte – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Pagan Goddess Statue\u003cbr\u003e• Giant Spider\u003cbr\u003e• Fantasy Banner – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Fantasy Banner – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Female Comic Wizard\u003cbr\u003e• Four-Armed Demon\u003cbr\u003e• Insane Hippie – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Insane Hippie – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Dwarven Pixie\u003cbr\u003e• Mouse Knight\u003cbr\u003e• Ghostly Rabbit\u003cbr\u003e• Tentacle and Treasure\u003cbr\u003e• Assorted Magical Treasure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFORMAT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 image files representing 13 distinct illustrations:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 12 TIFF files\u003cbr\u003e• 4 PNG files\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29188155998272,"sku":"BMA006","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/tiles5.PNG?v=1560945387"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-6","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 6","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOgres, serpent men, bat priests, graveyard monsters and a piece of bone that has clearly passed through something’s digestive system. The usual respectable fantasy furniture, in other words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 6 contains 16 TIFF files representing 12 distinct illustrations by Brad McDevitt. Several pieces are supplied in both colour and greyscale, giving you a little more flexibility when laying out print or digital projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are character and creature illustrations, a wizard caught in the act of doing something inadvisable, a full-scale graveyard battle, decorative artwork and useful spot illustrations. 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Sometimes it is a suspiciously kindly farmer, a pipe-smoking weasel, a victorious anti-paladin or an enormous heap of skulls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 7 contains 16 pieces of Brad McDevitt’s distinctive stock artwork. The assortment includes character portraits, monsters, dramatic scenes and decorative material suitable for role-playing games, adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction and other fantasy projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are faces ready to become villagers, informants, rogues, occultists and assorted people the adventurers will immediately mistrust. Elsewhere, anti-paladins triumph, demons receive sacrifices, a kraken gets its tentacles into things and the dead contribute several skulls to the general atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Kindly Old Farmer\u003cbr\u003e• Village Idiot\u003cbr\u003e• Village Wise Woman\u003cbr\u003e• Weasel with Pipe\u003cbr\u003e• Medieval Woman Headshot\u003cbr\u003e• Tough Guy with Beard\u003cbr\u003e• Anti-Paladin Triumphant\u003cbr\u003e• Skulls\u003cbr\u003e• Kraken\u003cbr\u003e• Art and Robotics\u003cbr\u003e• Fantasy Trade Dress – PWWW\u003cbr\u003e• Candlelit Message\u003cbr\u003e• African Man\u003cbr\u003e• Animal Demon\u003cbr\u003e• Animal Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e• Anti-Paladin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFORMAT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16 TIFF image files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29188247945280,"sku":"BMA008","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/tiles7.PNG?v=1560946083"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-8","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 8","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeroes, villains, monsters, nobles, beggars, cultists and several compelling arguments against exploring caves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 8 brings together 25 pieces of Brad McDevitt’s distinctive fantasy artwork. His heavy inks, expressive faces and rough-edged old-school style are well suited to role-playing games, adventures, bestiaries, campaign settings, fiction and other fantasy projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from individual characters and creatures to larger scenes: barbarians, dark elves, dwarves and elven royalty share space with a banshee, cyclops, fish demon, spectral guardian and the unfortunate consequences of making pacts with things from beyond. There is even a duct-tape samurai, because fantasy has never benefited from excessive restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Banshee\u003cbr\u003e• Barbarian Shaman\u003cbr\u003e• Barbarian Woman Warrior\u003cbr\u003e• Barbarian Thug\u003cbr\u003e• Beggar\u003cbr\u003e• Blood Cult Leader\u003cbr\u003e• Cavern Battle\u003cbr\u003e• Counsel\u003cbr\u003e• Crime Lord\u003cbr\u003e• Dark Elf Lovers\u003cbr\u003e• Dark Elf Warrior\u003cbr\u003e• Demonic Pact\u003cbr\u003e• Duct-Tape Samurai\u003cbr\u003e• Dwarven Matriarch\u003cbr\u003e• Dwarven Ranger\u003cbr\u003e• Elven Royalty\u003cbr\u003e• Elven Geisha\u003cbr\u003e• Execution Hill\u003cbr\u003e• Fantasy Swordswoman – greyscale\u003cbr\u003e• Fantasy Swordswoman – colour\u003cbr\u003e• Feral Cyclops\u003cbr\u003e• Feral Faerie\u003cbr\u003e• Fish Demon\u003cbr\u003e• Ghostly Guardian\u003cbr\u003e• Giant Encounter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFORMAT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25 TIFF image files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the licence included with the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt stock-art collections where the subject matter crosses between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29188318527552,"sku":"BMA009","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/tiles8.PNG?v=1560946483"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-9","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 9","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTHE DUNGEON HAS CULTISTS, ASSASSINS AND A SURPRISINGLY LARGE RAT\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 9\u003c\/strong\u003e is the sort of fantasy assortment that looks as though somebody emptied an adventurer’s nightmares onto the floor and sorted them into TIFF files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are the expected monsters—a dragon, scorpion, ogre, ghoul and naga—but the collection has more going on than a row of creatures waiting patiently for their statistics. Goblins are already attacking. Assassins are demonstrating an unhealthy interest in knots. 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The two Necromancer files are alternate treatments of one illustration; the remaining 23 files are distinct pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names come from the supplied filenames, with catalogue codes removed and spelling tidied for British readers. They are working labels rather than commandments. Change the names, alter the creatures and ignore any implied biography that does not suit your setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne file uses the old title \u003cem\u003eGypsy\u003c\/em\u003e. That is the original filename, not an obligation to use the term or assign the figure a particular ethnicity in your publication. 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Rats suggest cellars, sewers, ships, plague, grain stores and settlements where the local authorities have been economising on sanitation. It might be vermin, a familiar, an unusually intelligent scout or merely the visible representative of several thousand close relatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ogre and naga belong comfortably in bestiaries, wilderness encounters and old-school dungeon material. Neither is saddled with elaborate setting detail. Your ogre can be a brute, mercenary, tribal champion or misunderstood innkeeper dealing with another group of armed customers who refuse to pay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe naga might guard a temple, advise a ruler, demand tribute or inhabit the ruins everyone insists are abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen there is the Red Dragon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is red. It is a dragon. After decades of increasingly baroque monster names, there remains something admirably businesslike about that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse it for the tyrant atop the hoard, the beast beneath the mountain, a heraldic monster made flesh or the major adversary whose existence explains why the surrounding countryside has become affordable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE GOBLINS HAVE ALREADY STARTED\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGoblin Encounter\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you a scene rather than a specimen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat matters. A single goblin portrait may tell the reader what the creature looks like; an encounter image shows goblins doing what they do best—appearing in inconvenient numbers while the adventurers are occupied elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece could introduce:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA roadside ambush\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dungeon attack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA raid upon a settlement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fight in cramped terrain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chapter on goblins or lesser humanoids\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe moment a careful expedition descends into shouting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also saves you from illustrating every encounter with isolated figures gazing sternly at nothing. Scenes create pace inside a book. They make the world appear to continue moving when the player characters are not looking directly at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGRAVES, TOMBS AND ROYALTY AFTER DEATH\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGraveyard Ghoul\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHaunted Tomb\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eRoyal Effigy\u003c\/strong\u003e form a useful little cluster of sepulchral trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ghoul can live beneath a cemetery, inside a crypt, among battlefield dead or under a city whose respectable inhabitants prefer not to ask what keeps removing the bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Haunted Tomb provides a location with the problem already built into the title. Something remains there: a ghost, curse, guardian, memory or inhabitant who objects to archaeologists referring to its home in the past tense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Royal Effigy may be a statue, tomb carving, cult image or memorial to a ruler whose subjects were insufficiently relieved by his death. It could be harmless scenery, the key to identifying a burial site or something into which the monarch’s spirit has been deliberately fastened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces fit readily into one scenario:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA royal tomb has been disturbed. The effigy no longer resembles the dead king. Ghouls are abandoning the cemetery rather than entering it. 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It can be used as an interrupted ceremony, dark historical incident, cult rite or the point where investigators stop wondering whether the disappearances are connected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture need not establish that the ritual works. Fraudulent, mistaken and entirely effective sacrifices all look much the same until something answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMystic Ascension\u003c\/strong\u003e suggests transformation, magical elevation, divine contact or somebody becoming significantly more luminous than the surrounding population. It can illustrate a beneficial transcendence, catastrophic spell or event whose moral significance depends largely upon who arranged it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Shaman and Sinister Old Wizard provide two very different practitioners. Either might be villain, adviser, hermit or powerful figure whose appearance has encouraged an unfair amount of suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr a completely fair amount. Sinister people do occur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sorceress and Staff is a more broadly usable spellcaster portrait. She can become a player character, court magician, battle-sorceress, witch or recurring antagonist. 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That gives publishers a practical choice between different interior styles without pretending the second file is a new character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe might be a villain raising an army, an adventuring death-mage, an occult scholar or somebody who regards corpses as a labour force with exceptionally weak collective-bargaining rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour Vampiress suits gothic fantasy, adult horror, vampire courts and settings where the undead remain attractive enough to approach before the obvious drawbacks become apparent. She could be a predator, patron, player character or immortal ruler whose dinner invitations carry several meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Elf Valkyrie combines familiar fantasy ingredients in a form suitable for heroic, mythic or deliberately sexy material. She might be a winged warrior, chooser of the slain, elven champion or celestial figure attached to an entirely invented mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no need to apologise for pulpy or sexualised fantasy imagery. Use it in books where it suits the tone; leave it out where it does not. Stock art is a cupboard, not a compulsory tasting menu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eASSASSINS WITH A TERRIBLE PUN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file titled \u003cstrong\u003eOh Those Knotty Assassins\u003c\/strong\u003e appears to involve an assassination by strangulation and, more importantly, commits fully to its own pun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat alone gives it character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can illustrate political murder, a thieves’ guild, court intrigue, criminal methods or a historical account of people whose professional tools could be purchased from a competent rope-maker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image offers more narrative value than another generic assassin crouched upon a rooftop. A killing is happening. There is a victim, method and immediate question of motive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho ordered it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy use this particular method?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas the victim silenced, punished or replaced?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHas the assassin noticed the witness standing just outside the frame?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf the illustration inspires even one encounter, it has already earned more than an ornamental dagger beside a paragraph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSAGES, OUTSIDERS AND PEOPLE WHO KNOW TOO MUCH\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSage\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a face for wisdom, scholarship, prophecy or the lengthy explanation players insisted upon and will now interrupt halfway through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe can be a court adviser, hermit, historian, philosopher, retired wizard or old man who knows where the ruins are because he was there when they stopped being a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe portrait originally titled \u003cstrong\u003eGypsy\u003c\/strong\u003e can be repurposed as a traveller, fortune-teller, noblewoman, sorceress, merchant, performer or any other character that fits its appearance and your setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeither image needs to be villainous or magical. Fantasy books often become overpopulated with warriors and monsters while everybody who supplies information, trades goods or remembers the past is left unpictured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA setting needs people who know things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also needs people who know things but have excellent reasons not to tell the adventurers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE MUSCULAR MONSTER\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMuscular Monster\u003c\/strong\u003e is a broad, heavy-looking creature portrait without a tightly defined species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could be an ogre-kin, demon, mutant, troll, alchemical creation or unique brute assembled from whatever the villain had available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroadly named monsters are easy to fit around existing rules. Rather than rewriting the bestiary because the art has six horns and your creature description insists upon four, assign this figure to whichever large, dangerous humanoid needs a face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could also become a named character: bodyguard, champion, gladiator or reluctant servant whose intelligence has been underestimated by everybody who met him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSINISTER ARMOUR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Armour\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration can depict a warrior, dark knight, animated suit or ceremonial guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suit of armour has the agreeable property of concealing whether anybody is inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it contains a knight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it contains a corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the armour itself is alive and considers the occupant an optional component.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the image for cursed equipment, tomb guardians, villainous champions or a museum display that has acquired an inconvenient evening routine. It can support straight fantasy, gothic horror or a magical-item section without needing much alteration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe players will attempt to wear it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWrite something for that eventuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFROM RANDOM FOLDER TO COMPLETE ADVENTURE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is enough connective tissue here to build a substantial scenario without forcing every image into the same chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA royal effigy is stolen from a haunted tomb. The graveyard ghoul claims that goblins carried it into the hills. An old sage identifies it as the seal upon a cult sanctuary beneath the mountains. The cultists intend to use a human sacrifice to complete a mystic ascension, but their sinister wizard has secretly made terms with a dragon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe assassins are there because somebody in the royal family wants the entire matter buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enormous rat is unrelated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProbably.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is one arrangement. The collection is just as useful divided across different products: animals into a bestiary, cult imagery into a dark-fantasy adventure, colourful characters into an adult supplement and the dragon into whichever page has enough room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFOR PEOPLE TRYING TO FINISH BOOKS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBespoke art is ideal when an illustration must show your exact hero, uniform, monster or location.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is expensive when the manuscript merely needs a sage, ghoul, rat, cultist or suspicious old wizard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art covers those secondary needs. It puts faces into character sections, creatures into bestiaries and activity onto pages that would otherwise resemble legal correspondence with armour statistics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 9 offers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonsters and animals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRitual and combat scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTomb and graveyard material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColour and monochrome artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mixture of heroic, horrific and pulpy subjects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small publisher can spread these images through one book or keep them available for later releases. Once licensed, an illustration may solve several layout problems over time, provided each use complies with the attached terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the dull practical virtue of stock art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe interesting virtue is the giant scorpion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEXACT FILE BREAKDOWN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSexy Necromancer:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale versions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23 other subjects supplied as individual TIFF illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo PNG files shown in the contact sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral files are identified as colour, greyscale or black-and-white treatments in their filenames, but only the Sexy Necromancer appears twice as the same subject within this particular collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also occur in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and check the provisions covering attribution, alteration and redistribution. The files are intended for incorporation into finished works, not for repackaging as a rival archive of suspiciously familiar artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrowse the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e for more heroes, monsters, scenery and evidence that somebody has been ignoring the warnings carved above the tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sacrifice is prepared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe assassins have tied the knot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dragon has noticed the activity below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour book has twenty-five fewer excuses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29189061181504,"sku":"BMA010","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/tiles9.PNG?v=1560951165"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-10","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 10","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDOWN IN THE DARK, SOMETHING IS CASTING SPELLS\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a great deal going on in \u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 10\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCultists have gathered underground. A thief is fooling about with poison. Trolls are causing the usual civic difficulties. Vampires fly, stare and embrace; none of these activities is likely to end well for the person standing nearest. Elsewhere, a wizard is working, another spellcaster is withering something unfortunate, and a halfling remains inexplicably cheerful despite the company he keeps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files covering 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e. Its emphasis falls on strange characters, subterranean encounters, vampires, monsters and magic rather than the usual parade of interchangeable knights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is enough here to furnish a bestiary, support an adventure or scatter throughout several different books. The selection has a pleasingly grubby, old-school fantasy character: crooked thieves, lurking rat-men, odd shamans, deep citadels and sorcery conducted without the benefit of modern health-and-safety legislation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE ACTUAL CONTENTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpellcasting Wizard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpike Demon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStatuette\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubterranean Cultists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Weird-West Troll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThief – Poison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTroll Encounter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderground Citadel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderworld Mutant – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire Hunter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampires Flight – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampiric Stare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire Embrace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViking – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViking – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarrior Angel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarthog Shaman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWererat Lurker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWild Wyvern\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithering Spell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWizard’s Study\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassic Halfling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClip Art Critters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names are cleaned versions of the supplied filenames. They provide a useful description of the artwork, but they do not have to become official terminology in your setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCall the Spike Demon a thorn devil, abyssal brute or irritated hedge spirit. Turn the Warthog Shaman into a priest, witch-doctor, spirit-talker or player character. The files will not object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBELOW THE SURFACE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral illustrations belong in caves, dungeons, underground kingdoms and other places where daylight has been rejected as an affectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubterranean Cultists\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you a full scene of ritual activity rather than another solitary figure standing against white space. It can introduce a hidden religion, secret gathering, summoning or the deeply awkward moment when adventurers interrupt a ceremony without first determining what the ceremony is intended to prevent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eUnderground Citadel\u003c\/strong\u003e supplies somewhere for them to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could be a dwarven fortress, ruined city, sealed prison, subterranean temple or the stronghold of a civilisation that decided the surface world was altogether too noisy. A location piece immediately gives an adventure some scale. There are walls to breach, towers to climb, gates to circumvent and inhabitants who have spent generations preparing for visitors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eUnderworld Mutant\u003c\/strong\u003e is a separate character piece, supplied in greyscale. It might be a native of the depths, altered human, escaped experimental subject or survivor of whatever contaminates the lower tunnels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen there is the \u003cstrong\u003eTroll Encounter\u003c\/strong\u003e, which appears to show adventurers facing a large and traditionally uncooperative opponent. It can carry an encounter page, scenario opening or bestiary section without needing much explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe troll is there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe characters are there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiplomacy has probably already had its chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMAGIC, WIZARDS AND OBJECTS WITH AGENCY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 10 contains a small but useful magical department.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSpellcasting Wizard\u003c\/strong\u003e can serve as a player character, court magician, ritualist or antagonist caught in the middle of producing an effect the reader can actually see. That makes the piece more useful than the familiar portrait of a wizard merely holding a staff and hoping the hat does the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWithering Spell\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you another magical incident. It could illustrate necromancy, ageing, decay, a curse or an attack that leaves rather more permanent evidence than a fireball.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWizard’s Study\u003c\/strong\u003e supplies the necessary books, apparatus and architectural clutter. It may be the workplace of a respected scholar, hedge magician, alchemist or dangerous lunatic whose neighbours have grown accustomed to flashes beneath the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wizard’s study is also an excellent place to search. It contains clues, valuables, unfinished experiments and objects whose labels have been written by somebody with an infuriating fondness for metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eStatuette\u003c\/strong\u003e can become one of those objects. It might be a minor treasure, religious image, magical focus, prison for a spirit or small decorative nuisance that turns out to be responsible for most of the plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is enough here for a short magical investigation without importing anything else:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA statuette disappears from the study. The wizard is found injured by a withering curse. A poisoned thief has escaped into the lower city. The trail ends beneath the citadel, where cultists are trying to put the stolen object back before something notices it is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA perfectly respectable evening’s gaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePOISON: THE QUIET ALTERNATIVE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file titled \u003cstrong\u003eThief – Poison\u003c\/strong\u003e depicts a furtive character working with a container and weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can be used for an assassin, thief, apothecary, spy or adventurer who has concluded that fair combat is an expensive habit maintained chiefly by people with better armour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoison has plenty of uses in a fantasy publication:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEquipment and alchemy chapters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAssassin or rogue character material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourt intrigue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurder investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEncounters requiring discretion rather than frontal assault\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image need not depict a villain. A monster hunter might prepare venom for a specific creature. A healer may be measuring a dangerous medicine. A player character may simply be doing exactly what the other players expected when they invited somebody called “Knives” into the party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVAMPIRES AT WORK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour separate illustrations concern vampires and those who make the sensible decision to hunt them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVampire Hunter\u003c\/strong\u003e is armed and dressed for a grim sort of business. He can become a player character, professional monster-killer, religious agent, obsessive survivor or recurring figure whose methods create almost as many problems as his prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other three pieces approach vampirism from different angles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVampires Flight\u003c\/strong\u003e, supplied in greyscale, brings movement and supernatural spectacle. It can depict transformation, escape, attack or a creature descending upon someone who had wrongly assumed the upper windows were safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVampiric Stare\u003c\/strong\u003e is intimate and confrontational. It suits mesmerism, psychic control, predatory hunger or the moment when a victim realises that looking away is no longer an available choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVampire Embrace\u003c\/strong\u003e presents a close encounter between predator and victim. It can accompany seduction, feeding, transformation or the complicated territory in which attraction and danger have become inconveniently entangled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, the four pieces could furnish an entire vampire chapter without repeating one static portrait. There is a hunter, an aerial image, a close-up and a narrative scene. That variety helps a section look designed rather than assembled from the same headshot copied across several pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTROLLS WITH EXPANDING CAREER OPTIONS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 10 contains two different troll pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eTroll Encounter\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to traditional dungeon or wilderness fantasy: a large creature confronted by considerably smaller people who have nevertheless decided to continue advancing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Weird-West Troll\u003c\/strong\u003e takes the species somewhere less predictable. It can serve in frontier fantasy, black-powder adventure or a setting where monstrous peoples have discovered hats, firearms and the economic possibilities of an insufficiently regulated border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn outlaw\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bounty hunter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA prospector\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hired gun\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bridge owner who has modernised his collection methods\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA local lawman whose appointment has substantially reduced arguments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two trolls need not belong to the same world. One can enter a conventional bestiary while the other waits for a weird-west supplement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art does not become less valuable because its inhabitants have never met.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE BESTIARY SHELF\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSpike Demon\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWild Wyvern\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWererat Lurker\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWarthog Shaman\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eClip Art Critters\u003c\/strong\u003e provide a useful range of creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Spike Demon is a heavy, hostile-looking brute covered in protrusions. It can become an infernal creature, mutant, summoned guardian or monster that has evolved an admirably direct response to grappling attacks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWild Wyvern\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs in wilderness encounters, aerial bestiaries, mountain regions and the skies above settlements that have neglected to maintain a sufficiently large ballista. It could be a solitary predator, trained mount or the smallest member of a far more alarming brood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWererat Lurker\u003c\/strong\u003e is a dark, close character portrait. Use it for sewer-dwellers, thieves’ guilds, plague cults, urban monsters or a hidden people living beneath a city and quietly acquiring everything the surface loses down drains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarthog Shaman\u003c\/strong\u003e has considerably more personality than another generic robed priest. The figure could be wise, dangerous, comic, imposing or all four depending upon the writing around it. Give him fetishes, spirits, ancestral obligations or a maddening habit of answering straightforward questions through animal noises and parables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file titled \u003cstrong\u003eClip Art Critters\u003c\/strong\u003e appears to be a group illustration containing several small fantasy creatures. It can break up a bestiary, decorate a lighter section or provide a cluster of incidental inhabitants without demanding a separate full-page entry for each.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts filename also specifies 300 DPI. That detail belongs to this file specifically and should not be assumed for every other image without checking the originals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVIKINGS, ANGELS AND A TATTOOED FELLOW\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot everything here is a monster or magician.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eViking\u003c\/strong\u003e is supplied in colour and greyscale. The figure can serve as a raider, warrior, mercenary, sailor or fantasy adventurer from a culture that regards shields as both protection and portable scenery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass\u003c\/strong\u003e also appears in a standard treatment and a greyscale version. He could become a gladiator, barbarian, pit-fighter, criminal, warrior-priest or character whose body carries a map, oath, spell or regrettable sequence of drunken decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWarrior Angel\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a more exalted combatant. It might represent a celestial soldier, divine messenger, winged species or supernatural champion who has arrived to help humanity after first establishing precisely which humans are considered acceptable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also a \u003cstrong\u003eClassic Halfling\u003c\/strong\u003e, a cheerful-looking adventurer useful for old-school fantasy, character sections, tavern scenes and any party requiring someone short enough to reach the trap mechanism but optimistic enough to volunteer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures give the collection some player-character possibilities among the creatures and scenes. They can populate archetype sections, pregenerated characters or the odd chapter in which somebody needs to survive long enough to become important.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHY THIS PARTICULAR MIX WORKS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe strength of Fantasy Collection 10 lies in its balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are character portraits, but the folder is not dominated by them. There are monsters, but they are not twenty-five minor variations upon the same snarling humanoid. Scenes such as the Troll Encounter, Subterranean Cultists and Withering Spell give movement to a layout, while the Underground Citadel and Wizard’s Study establish places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat allows the collection to cover several different publishing jobs:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBestiary entries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdventure scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagic and poison sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaction illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLocations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecorative or group artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBespoke commissions remain the right answer for signature characters, exact costumes and creatures unique to your setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art handles the rest. It fills the supporting cast, gives incidental encounters some visual weight and stops a finished manuscript resembling a tax return with hit points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the whole pack in one broad fantasy book, or divide it between projects. The vampire pieces may go into a gothic supplement; the Viking and wyvern into a wilderness adventure; the troll into a weird-west ’zine; the underground material into a dungeon release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cost does not increase each time an owned illustration solves another problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEXACT FILE BREAKDOWN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale versions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eViking:\u003c\/strong\u003e colour and greyscale versions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e21 other subjects supplied as single TIFF illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo of those single illustrations—\u003cstrong\u003eUnderworld Mutant\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eVampires Flight\u003c\/strong\u003e—are identified as greyscale in their filenames, but no alternative versions of either appear in this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll visible files use \u003ccode\u003e.tif\u003c\/code\u003e or \u003ccode\u003e.TIF\u003c\/code\u003e extensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also occur in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead those terms before publication, especially the provisions covering credit, alteration and redistribution. The artwork is intended for incorporation into finished books and products, not for repackaging as a competing folder of raw images accompanied by an adventurous interpretation of intellectual property law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore monsters, heroes, sorcerers and people behaving suspiciously in caves can be found in the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cultists are gathering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poison is ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wererat has found a very good hiding place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour layout no longer has an excuse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29189123309632,"sku":"BMA011","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/tiles10.PNG?v=1560951689"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-fantasy-collection-11","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Fantasy Collection 11","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMONSTERS, SORCERERS AND ONE SUSPICIOUSLY SMOKING BOTTLE\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome fantasy collections give you six nearly identical warriors, three women in improbable armour and a dragon that looks faintly embarrassed to be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Fantasy Collection 11\u003c\/strong\u003e is made of stranger stuff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are gargoyles, werecreatures, undead hordes and a mad sorcerer. A knight is having trouble with rats. Something unpleasant has happened in a crypt. A Puritan has arrived armed for doctrinal disagreement, while elsewhere a fighter has brought a flintlock to what everyone else assumed would be a sword fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 separate TIFF illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e, all distinct. It ranges from traditional dungeon fantasy and gothic horror to black-powder adventure, weird magic and the sort of monster-heavy setting where humanity survives mainly through stubbornness and sharpened metal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse it for bestiaries, adventures, campaign settings, fiction, ’zines, handouts or to replace the empty rectangles presently scattered through your layout like silent accusations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIN THE FOLDER\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied illustrations are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark Summoning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisturbed Crypt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDragon and Horde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Undead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGargoyle 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGargoyle 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGargoyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJennihaniver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnight and Rats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMad Sorcerer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMalevolent Princess – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOgre Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePuritan Warrior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerpent Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Castle – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Spinster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmoking Bottle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStorm Riders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerecrocodile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerewolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMummy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampires\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVood Mask\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFighter with Flintlock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are \u003cstrong\u003e25 files and 25 different illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e. No creative arithmetic is required.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names are taken from the supplied filenames. They indicate the artist’s broad intention, but they need not become official names or immutable truths within your setting. Rename the characters, reclassify the creatures and make the artwork work for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE DEAD HAVE BECOME ORGANISED\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection has a substantial undead contingent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisturbed Crypt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Undead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMummy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampires\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisturbed Crypt\u003c\/strong\u003e is a ready-made adventure opening. Someone has broken into a burial place, something has broken out, or both have occurred in an order the investigators will need to establish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can introduce grave robbery, necromancy, a violated ancestral tomb or the discovery that the crypt was sealed to keep something inside rather than thieves outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Undead\u003c\/strong\u003e supplies a group rather than a solitary corpse. It can illustrate an undead faction, a mass rising, the servants of a necromancer or the welcoming committee at the bottom of a staircase nobody thought to check.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMummy\u003c\/strong\u003e brings the familiar charm of ancient curses, wrapped cadavers and archaeology conducted without sufficient respect for warning inscriptions. Place it in a tomb, museum, ruined temple or modern drawing room after somebody has unwisely imported the contents of a burial chamber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVampires\u003c\/strong\u003e piece can support a blood-drinking court, predatory family, hidden cabal or several creatures who have found that hunting together reduces administrative overhead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese illustrations can occupy separate chapters of a bestiary, or form one larger problem. Perhaps the disturbed crypt belongs to the vampires, whose servants have awakened the mummy while searching for an older power beneath the tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody involved will accept responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGARGOYLES IN TRIPLICATE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree distinct gargoyle illustrations appear in the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are not alternate versions of the same piece. Each is separate artwork, giving you several ways to populate a cathedral, fortress, ruined city or magician’s tower with hostile masonry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gargoyle can be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA living stone predator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn architectural guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demon bound into sculpture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA familiar perched above the streets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA defensive construct\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA creature that remains motionless while watched\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason local roofers demand danger money\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne gargoyle can become a singular monster. Three allow you to depict a species, defensive host or hierarchy of creatures without repeating the same illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey also make good visual punctuation. A narrow gargoyle image can sit beside a sidebar or monster entry; a larger piece can introduce the chapter in which the architecture finally begins fighting back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe traditional test remains reliable: look away, look back and count them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMAGIC BEING HANDLED IRRESPONSIBLY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDark Summoning\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMad Sorcerer\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSmoking Bottle\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eVood Mask\u003c\/strong\u003e cover several different approaches to supernatural power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark Summoning gives you a complete incident rather than merely somebody holding a staff. A rite is under way. Whether the summoner is calling, binding, banishing or desperately attempting to send something back remains open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMad Sorcerer\u003c\/strong\u003e can be a villain, failed scholar, court magician, cursed adviser or entirely rational man pursuing a goal that happens to require a cellar full of screaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e suits séances, spirit communication, divination and adventures where the dead are willing to speak but remain irritatingly vague about names and dates. The figure could be genuine, fraudulent or genuine while pretending to be fraudulent because actual necromancy attracts the wrong sort of official attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmoking Bottle\u003c\/strong\u003e is a particularly useful magical prop. It might contain:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spirit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA genie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA curse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA potion brewing without supervision\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone’s soul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poisonous vapour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA magical message\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe consequences of mixing two liquids clearly labelled \u003cstrong\u003eDO NOT COMBINE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVood Mask\u003c\/strong\u003e can become a ritual object, spirit vessel, tribal artefact, cursed disguise or the face adopted by an occult society. The supplied filename is broad and culturally imprecise, so any specific tradition should come from the setting and research of the project using it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagic items, ritual scenes and occult figures give a fantasy book texture beyond another procession of armed characters. They show what people believe, fear and meddle with when ordinary methods fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE SORCERER HAS A CASTLE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe black-and-white \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Castle\u003c\/strong\u003e gives the collection a proper location.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tyrant’s fortress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA necromancer’s seat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ruined stronghold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA vampire’s ancestral home\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mountain citadel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA prison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe structure visible on the horizon immediately before the guide refuses to continue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCastles are not merely scenery. They organise an adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe walls create an obstacle. The towers create objectives. The gates decide how openly the characters intend to proceed. The dungeons provide somewhere for the missing villagers to have been taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace the Mad Sorcerer inside, Gargoyles upon the roof and the Fantasy Undead in the courtyard. You now have a substantial encounter site with very little additional persuasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe characters will still enter through the drainage tunnel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey always do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA PRINCESS AND A SPINSTER, BOTH SINISTER\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes a \u003cstrong\u003eMalevolent Princess\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Spinster\u003c\/strong\u003e, which sounds less like a character list and more like the opening line of a particularly vicious family history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe princess might be a scheming royal, cursed heir, political hostage, sorceress or innocent woman burdened with a frankly prejudicial filename. “Malevolent” can remain the artist’s suggestion rather than an established fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe may be the villain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe may merely have excellent cheekbones and a court full of enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Spinster could be a wealthy recluse, village elder, occult practitioner, aunt with an alarming inheritance arrangement or the sole surviving witness to events everyone else has agreed never to discuss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth images are useful for intrigue because they depict people with whom the characters can speak, bargain and make catastrophic assumptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dragon may burn the village.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA princess can have the characters legally declared responsible for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE MONSTERS HAVE ARRIVED\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eOgre Attack\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWerewolf\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWerecrocodile\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSerpent Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e and enigmatic \u003cstrong\u003eJennihaniver\u003c\/strong\u003e provide the collection with a varied assortment of living or transformed creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOgre Attack shows violence already in progress. It can illustrate a road ambush, village raid, wilderness encounter or the point at which negotiations with the large fellow have conclusively failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWerewolf\u003c\/strong\u003e is immediately useful in horror-fantasy, gothic settings, wilderness adventures and campaigns where everyone insists upon travelling during a full moon despite repeated experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWerecrocodile\u003c\/strong\u003e offers something less overused. It can inhabit swamps, river settlements, ancient ruins or hot, crowded cities built beside suspiciously deep water. The creature could be cursed, hereditary, divine or the result of experimental magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSerpent Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e might be a transformed human, member of a serpent people, temple guardian, sorceress or entirely separate species. She can serve as antagonist, patron, monster or player character according to the needs of the setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file titled \u003cstrong\u003eJennihaniver\u003c\/strong\u003e presents a distinctive fantasy figure without supplying a clear taxonomy. That is useful rather than inconvenient. Treat it as a named character, unusual creature or supernatural being and provide your own explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stock-art filename should not be allowed to bully the world-building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eRATS, KNIGHTS AND THE COLLAPSE OF DIGNITY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnight and Rats\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a welcome change from the usual heroic pose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA knight confronting vermin can be funny, grim or genuinely dangerous depending upon the size, number and habits of the rats involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scene could accompany:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sewer expedition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA plague outbreak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dungeon infestation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA swarm encounter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of something beneath a city\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA knight learning that expensive armour does not prevent creatures entering through the joints\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the sort of illustration that makes an adventure feel lived-in. Not every threat is an ancient dragon or world-ending demon. Sometimes it is dark, hungry and coming through a hole behind the flour barrels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRats also imply location: granaries, tunnels, crypts, cellars, ships and neglected streets. Put the image on the page and much of the atmosphere arrives with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDRAGON AND HORDE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDragon and Horde\u003c\/strong\u003e is a large-scale fantasy image: not a lone monster waiting politely in a room, but a creature associated with massed followers, treasure, victims or battlefield chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can illustrate:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dragon’s army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA siege\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monstrous invasion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA warlord’s host\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA climactic encounter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe section of the campaign where the characters realise the problem is no longer local\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDragons are familiar fantasy currency, but context matters. A dragon alone is a monster. A dragon with a horde is a political and military problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho serves it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre they enthralled, allied or merely terrified?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHas the dragon conquered a kingdom, inherited one or decided that taxes are more efficient than periodically eating the population?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration has enough scale to carry a chapter opening, title page or major adversary section. It is the sort of piece that earns more space than another small portrait tucked between stat blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSTORM RIDERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStorm Riders\u003c\/strong\u003e brings movement and spectacle into the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe riders could be supernatural horsemen, cavalry caught in impossible weather, heralds of a storm god or raiders whose arrival is always accompanied by thunder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the piece for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wild hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn approaching army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElemental riders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cursed company\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA prophetic vision\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beginning of a battle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTravellers whose route across the sky is considerably more direct than the road\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration can work literally or symbolically. It might depict an actual encounter, a legend, a tapestry, a dream or a warning painted by somebody who saw the riders once and did not survive long enough to explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStorms already bring darkness, noise and confusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdding cavalry is excessive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy is allowed to be excessive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBLACK POWDER AMONG THE SWORDS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePuritan Warrior\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eFighter with Flintlock\u003c\/strong\u003e give the collection a useful early-modern edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey fit black-powder fantasy, witch-hunting, pike-and-shot settings, colonial adventures, weird history and worlds where magic has had to adjust to the invention of portable firearms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Puritan Warrior may be a monster hunter, soldier, religious zealot, investigator or stern professional whose wardrobe permits very little frivolity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fighter appears armed with a flintlock and other adventuring equipment, making the image suitable for a character who bridges traditional fantasy and early gunpowder technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces are particularly welcome in a genre that too often wanders from antiquity to the late Middle Ages and then stops as though nobody subsequently invented anything interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA flintlock does not remove magic from fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt merely gives the wizard another reason to act first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA PRACTICAL COLLECTION FOR PUBLISHERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Collection 11 has enough range to work across several parts of a book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe monsters can fill bestiary entries. The castle and crypt establish locations. The summoning and ogre attack provide full scenes. The princess, medium, sorcerer and fighter supply character portraits. The bottle and mask can illustrate treasure or occult chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat balance matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA folder filled entirely with creature portraits may look impressive until the manuscript needs a town, ritual, object or ordinary supporting character. This collection offers more than one visual note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is particularly suited to:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraditional fantasy role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGothic fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeird fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack-powder fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBestiaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdventures and campaign settings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy-horror crossovers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent fiction and gaming ’zines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned artwork remains ideal for signature characters, exact locations and anything central to your setting’s identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art handles the rest: incidental monsters, supporting figures, atmospheric scenes and those parts of the layout that need a good illustration without requiring six emails, a sketch round and an emergency extension to the deadline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five distinct images can cover a substantial part of a modest publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can also sit in your art library and solve unrelated problems over several years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gargoyle will not complain about being typecast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEXACT FILE BREAKDOWN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree separate gargoyle illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo duplicate colour or greyscale variants apparent in the contact sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne unique piece for every listed filename\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe filename extensions vary between \u003ccode\u003e.tif\u003c\/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003e.TIF\u003c\/code\u003e, but all visible files are in TIFF format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are supplied for personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead those terms before publication, particularly the requirements concerning credit, alteration and redistribution. Stock art is intended to become part of a finished publication, not to be gathered into another raw-image archive and sold beneath a hastily altered title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore monsters, heroes, ruins and ill-advised magical experiments can be found in the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe crypt has been disturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bottle is smoking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gargoyles are no longer where you left them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork, at least, is ready.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29189152931904,"sku":"BMA012","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/tiles11.PNG?v=1560951945"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-historical-collection-1","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Historical Collection 1","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHISTORY, HAUNTINGS AND PEOPLE YOU SHOULD NOT TRUST\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Historical Collection 1\u003c\/strong\u003e takes history in the old pulp sense: warriors, shamans, gangsters, cultists, corpses and supernatural manifestations, with considerably less interest in parliamentary reform than in what has just emerged from the ritual circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct TIFF illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e. No repeated colour versions, greyscale duplicates or alternative crops are apparent in the supplied contact sheet. Twenty-five files means twenty-five different pieces of artwork, which is pleasingly straightforward after some of the more variant-heavy collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts range is broad. Ancient Egypt rubs shoulders with sinister Americana, folkloric horror, gothic mystery, historical fantasy and period crime. That makes it less suited to recreating one meticulously documented afternoon and rather better for publishers who produce adventures, sourcebooks, fiction and ’zines across several flavours of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the pieces together or raid the collection over time. The Egyptian warrior does not have to meet the dapper gangster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough the gangster would probably try to sell him something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE CONTENTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied illustrations are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEgyptian Warrior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForest Discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGargoyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoon Worshipper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInnsmouth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmerindian Modern Shaman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSorcerous Circle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloody Shakespeare Bust\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeductive Blonde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProphet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRogue Relaxing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarehouse Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTalismanic Shaman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiery Phantasm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterrupted Cultists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDapper Gangster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavinda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDire Wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDead Villager\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrozen Peasant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names above retain the substance of the original filenames while removing internal catalogue numbers and production suffixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are useful labels, not fixed character biographies. A file called \u003cem\u003eProphet\u003c\/em\u003e may become a priest, beggar, madman or inconveniently accurate old fellow in your own project. The artwork belongs in your setting once you have licensed it; the filename need not follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWARRIORS, ROGUES AND TOUGH CUSTOMERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eEgyptian Warrior\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAmazon\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eRogue Relaxing\u003c\/strong\u003e and three \u003cstrong\u003eTough Guy\u003c\/strong\u003e portraits provide a useful collection of capable, dangerous or merely difficult people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Egyptian Warrior belongs naturally in ancient-world gaming, archaeological adventure, sword-and-sandal fantasy and tales involving tombs that have remained sealed for sound practical reasons. He could be a living soldier, ancestral vision, tomb guardian or illustration from a recovered chronicle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAmazon\u003c\/strong\u003e can serve as a warrior, champion, tribal fighter, mercenary or legendary figure. The filename places her within the broad tradition of formidable women from the edges of the known world, but her exact culture and period remain yours to supply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRogue Relaxing\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you something character art often neglects: a figure between acts of violence. He might be a thief, scout, outlaw, smuggler or adventurer enjoying the brief interval before somebody discovers what he has stolen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three Tough Guys are separate portraits rather than variants. They can become guards, criminals, mercenaries, sailors, veterans or supporting characters whose friendliness should be assessed only after checking the exits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne can guard the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne can own the tavern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne can insist he has never seen the first two before in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Games Master can get a surprising amount of mileage out of three unfriendly faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSHAMANS, PROPHETS AND THINGS DONE IN CIRCLES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes an \u003cstrong\u003eAmerindian Modern Shaman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTalismanic Shaman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eProphet\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMoon Worshipper\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSorcerous Circle\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first filename is the artist’s original label. It identifies a broad Indigenous-American-inspired shamanic figure rather than a precisely documented nation, tradition or historical person. Publishers using the image in a specific cultural setting should provide their own properly researched context rather than assuming the filename has done that work for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eTalismanic Shaman\u003c\/strong\u003e offers another occult practitioner, this time with a more fantastical or ritual emphasis. Either shaman could be a healer, spirit-worker, adviser, antagonist or person forced to mediate between ordinary humanity and powers with little patience for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eProphet\u003c\/strong\u003e can carry religion, revelation, warning or madness. Perhaps he is respected. Perhaps he is mocked. Perhaps people begin taking him seriously only after the first prediction arrives covered in blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoon Worshipper\u003c\/strong\u003e could accompany a solitary devotee, nocturnal rite, forgotten faith or cult that measures time by a celestial body rather than the local calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSorcerous Circle\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you a scene rather than a portrait. It may represent summoning, protection, divination, initiation or the aftermath of somebody discovering that a circle only works when completed correctly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, these pieces are well suited to historical fantasy and occult horror. They provide practitioners, believers and ritual activity without forcing them into one invented magical system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINTERRUPTED CULTISTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterrupted Cultists\u003c\/strong\u003e deserves particular attention because it begins with action already under way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody has found the cult during its ceremony. That immediately raises several useful questions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho interrupted them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat were they doing?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas the ritual being started or stopped?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoes barging into the room improve the situation?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayers tend to assume that robed people chanting around a symbol are the villains. Often they are. Occasionally they are the last thing preventing the actual villain from waking up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration can introduce a scenario, carry a chapter opening or provide the moment when an investigation turns into a fight. It also pairs readily with the Sorcerous Circle, Fiery Phantasm, Moon Worshipper or Prophet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne cult scene and four possible explanations is better value than another generic man standing with a sword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA GHOSTLY TOUR OF THE WORLD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGargoyle\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFiery Phantasm\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHaunted Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eInnsmouth\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDire Wolf\u003c\/strong\u003e take the collection firmly into supernatural territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gargoyle may be sculpture, guardian, demon or living creature. Put it on a cathedral, manor, tomb or museum roof. Let the characters notice that its position has changed. Deny everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFiery Phantasm\u003c\/strong\u003e can represent an apparition, elemental spirit, burning ghost or magical manifestation. It has enough visual force for a chapter opener, monster entry or major encounter rather than being confined to a decorative corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHaunted Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e offers period or folkloric horror with Japanese visual context. It can support a ghost story, supernatural visitation, cursed household or historical-fantasy scene. The filename is broad, so the precise era, creature and cultural meaning should come from the project using it rather than from guesswork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eInnsmouth\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration belongs naturally to maritime horror, isolated communities and the tradition of ancient bloodlines deteriorating in damp coastal settlements. Use it directly for that sort of material or detach it from the name and make it your own fishing village, harbour or suspiciously moist congregation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dire Wolf can remain an enormous natural predator or become a supernatural beast, shapeshifter, heraldic monster or companion to somebody with unusual ideas about responsible animal ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is historical stock art with one foot in folklore and the other in something unpleasant beneath the floorboards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCORPSES, DISCOVERIES AND THE AFTERMATH\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour pieces deal directly with death or its discovery:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForest Discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarehouse Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDead Villager\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrozen Peasant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eForest Discovery\u003c\/strong\u003e can begin almost any sort of historical mystery. A body, abandoned camp, ritual site or evidence of violence has been found somewhere isolated. The characters are either investigating, implicated or simply unfortunate enough to be nearest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarehouse Death\u003c\/strong\u003e shifts the setting into an urban or industrial space. It suits period crime, pulp investigation, smuggling, murder and stories involving valuable goods with an inconvenient human cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dead Villager is immediate and personal. A single dead inhabitant can represent murder, plague, war, monster attack or the first evidence that an apparently quiet settlement has a problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFrozen Peasant\u003c\/strong\u003e adds weather, exposure and isolation. The figure might have died naturally, been abandoned, frozen by supernatural means or preserved long enough to reveal something nobody expected to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical horror benefits from evidence that looks specific without dictating the whole solution. A corpse creates questions. The writer decides which answers are true and which were planted by somebody with a shovel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSHAKESPEARE HAS HAD BETTER REVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBloody Shakespeare Bust\u003c\/strong\u003e is exactly the sort of peculiar object that earns its keep in a stock-art folder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA murder weapon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn occult artefact\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA theatrical prop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence discovered backstage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe centrepiece of a literary cult\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA perfectly innocent bust positioned beside a spectacularly guilty person\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt belongs in historical mystery, theatrical horror, gothic adventure or modern investigation involving old institutions and older grudges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the blood belongs to an actor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the bust itself inflicted the wound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps someone has been arranging deaths according to the plays, in which case the investigators should hope the murderer does not reach \u003cem\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObjects like this are useful because they are memorable. A generic dagger may be overlooked. A blood-covered Shakespeare tends to remain in the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGANGSTERS, BLONDES AND A TOUCH OF PERIOD CRIME\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDapper Gangster\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSeductive Blonde\u003c\/strong\u003e and several Tough Guy portraits move the collection into pulp crime, noir and twentieth-century period adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gangster might be a mobster, bookmaker, club owner, fixer or gentleman who regards criminality as merely another form of business administration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Seductive Blonde could be a singer, spy, socialite, suspect, agent or classic femme-fatale figure. She need not be a villain; appearing glamorous in period fiction is not yet a criminal offence, though detectives frequently treat it as probable cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd one or more Tough Guys and you have the beginnings of a nightclub, criminal organisation or private meeting from which somebody is unlikely to return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProhibition-era crime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoir investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical urban fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGangster horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeriod thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection’s occult pieces can be folded into that material easily. A gangster financing a sorcerous circle is not remotely sensible, but organised crime has rarely suffered from excessive caution where profitable new markets are concerned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLAVINDA\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne portrait is supplied under the name \u003cstrong\u003eLavinda\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe filename gives her a name but no role, culture or period. That makes her one of the collection’s most flexible character pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe could be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA village elder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn occult practitioner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA witness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA servant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA relative of the deceased\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA local authority\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody who remembers what happened before everyone else agreed to forget\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe temptation with stock-art filenames is to invent an elaborate official identity where none exists. There is no need. Lavinda provides a distinctive face; your project provides everything behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the bargain stock art offers at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA COLLECTION WITH RANGE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical Collection 1 does not attempt visual unity around one date or geographical location. It moves between ancient warriors, period crime, occult ritual, folkloric horror and ordinary people caught in ugly events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat breadth makes it useful for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGothic and folk horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeriod crime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient-world adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeird history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural ’zines and fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single broadly historical campaign could use much of the collection, particularly one involving a secret society operating across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore likely, the Egyptian Warrior will appear in one book, the gangster in another and the frozen peasant in an adventure written six months later when you remember you already own a perfectly suitable illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art is an art library, not a compulsory group portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHY PUBLISHERS BUY STOCK ART\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBespoke commissions are ideal when an image must show a particular character, costume, location or creature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are less economical when the manuscript simply needs a corpse, villager, rogue, cult scene or ominous old man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is where stock art earns its money.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEncounter scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult and supernatural incidents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupporting cast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBestiary entries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer handouts and visual clues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five separate commissions would cost a substantial sum. Twenty-five ready-made TIFF illustrations allow a small publisher to put artwork throughout a book while reserving bespoke commissions for the cover and those images that genuinely need to match the text exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also removes a surprising quantity of layout procrastination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe empty box labelled \u003cstrong\u003eART HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e has never improved through prolonged contemplation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEXACT FILE BREAKDOWN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo duplicate colour or greyscale variants apparent in the contact sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree separate Tough Guy portraits\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne illustration for every listed filename\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe filename extensions vary between \u003ccode\u003e.tif\u003c\/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003e.TIF\u003c\/code\u003e, but all supplied artwork shown in the contact sheet is in TIFF format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and check its requirements concerning credit, alteration and redistribution. The files are intended to be incorporated into finished products, not repackaged as raw stock art under a new folder name and an expression of wounded innocence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther characters, monsters and historical misfortunes can be found in the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cult has been interrupted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe villager is dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gargoyle has moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript, at least, is looking considerably healthier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29204292010048,"sku":"BMA013","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Hist1.PNG?v=1561021092"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-historical-collection-2","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Historical Collection 2","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePULP HISTORY, BAD MAGIC AND A ROBOT THAT HAS NO BUSINESS BEING HERE\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Historical Collection 2\u003c\/strong\u003e takes a broad and cheerfully disreputable view of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are Roman riots and frightened peasants, naturally, but also a jungle adventurer, a cackling witch, a pagan idol, noir nightmares, savaged remains and a retro robot who appears to have wandered in from a future imagined somewhere around 1936.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a narrowly researched collection devoted to one battle, dynasty or precise variety of trouser. It is made for pulp history, historical fantasy, weird archaeology, lost worlds, occult investigation and retro adventure—the parts of the past where the tomb is cursed, the wizard is busy and somebody has just discovered that the statue was not entirely decorative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 image files representing 18 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, with several pieces supplied in alternate formats or treatments. Use them across adventures, sourcebooks, fiction, ’zines, handouts and other personal or professional projects, subject to the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE FOLDER\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilm Noir Nightclub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlightly NSFW Cavewoman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRetro Robot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavaged Remains\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRiot in Rome\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrightened Peasant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalty and Peasantry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJungle Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJungle Girl – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFu Manchu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFu Manchu – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Treasure Pile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePagan Goddess Statue – PNG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePagan Goddess Statue – TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePagan Goddess Statue – greyscale TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCackling Witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Banner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Banner – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInsane Hippie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInsane Hippie – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoir Nightmare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFalling Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWizard at Work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Books – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is \u003cstrong\u003e25 usable files\u003c\/strong\u003e, rather than 25 unrelated illustrations. Alternative versions account for the difference between the number of files and the number of distinct subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe filenames are labels, not commandments. Rename the characters, alter the context and fit them to the book you are making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eRIOTS, PEASANTS AND THE GREAT HISTORICAL HIERARCHY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most straightforwardly historical pieces are \u003cstrong\u003eRiot in Rome\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFrightened Peasant\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eRoyalty and Peasantry\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRiot in Rome gives you a proper scene rather than another isolated portrait: bodies in motion, civil unrest and the sense that whatever political problem started the trouble has already escaped the control of the people responsible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can accompany:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban disorder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePolitical upheaval\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFood riots\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRebellion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mob encounter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collapse of public authority\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn adventure in which the characters have chosen a very poor day to visit the Forum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Frightened Peasant is useful precisely because he is not a warrior, ruler or glamorous adventurer. Historical and fantasy settings need ordinary people who can witness horrors, bring warnings, recognise local dangers and suffer the consequences when armed strangers arrive with a plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he has seen soldiers on the road. Perhaps something has been taking livestock. Perhaps he has just met the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoyalty and Peasantry\u003c\/strong\u003e deals with status rather than individual heroics. It can illustrate hierarchy, privilege, obligation, feudal power or the ancient social arrangement in which one group does the work while another receives a flattering portrait of the occasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces give a setting some society. History was not populated entirely by professional killers wandering between ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePREHISTORY BY WAY OF THE PULP RACK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSlightly NSFW Cavewoman\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to pulp prehistory, lost-world fiction and sword-and-sandal fantasy rather than sober archaeological reconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse her in games involving:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrehistoric survival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime travel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLost valleys\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrimitive fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp exploration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient civilisations sharing the scenery with very large reptiles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdult material that has no interest in pretending early humanity possessed modern standards of modesty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original filename makes the revealing nature of the image clear, allowing publishers to judge where it suits their audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is lurid genre art, not a museum exhibit. Most museums would be improved by the occasional sabretooth tiger, but funding committees remain timid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eJUNGLE ADVENTURE AND THE OLD PULP MASTERMIND\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eJungle Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e is supplied in standard and greyscale PNG versions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe can serve as an explorer, survivor, guardian, local heroine, castaway or lost-world adventurer. She might know the wilderness better than the expedition supposedly sent to rescue her, which would hardly be a startling development in pulp fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image belongs comfortably beside the \u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Treasure Pile\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePagan Goddess Statue\u003c\/strong\u003e and the figure filed under the old pulp name \u003cstrong\u003eFu Manchu\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat latter title carries the baggage of a racialised villain archetype. There is no need to retain it in your project. The illustration can become a criminal mastermind, occult scholar, court adviser, sorcerer, collector or conspirator of your own invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo versions are supplied: standard and greyscale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe useful part is the character art. The name can remain in the filename where it belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken together, these pieces could support an entire serial:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn expedition follows stolen documents into the jungle. A rival treasure hunter has already located the idol. The local guardian warns that the statue must never be separated from the books found beside it. The villain does so immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnd of episode one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTREASURE, IDOLS AND BOOKS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN LEFT CLOSED\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical adventure thrives upon objects that everyone has been explicitly warned not to touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection supplies three dependable examples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Treasure Pile\u003c\/strong\u003e is ready for tombs, hidden vaults, dragon hoards, royal treasuries or the dazzling moment when a party’s unity begins to crumble under the weight of basic arithmetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePagan Goddess Statue\u003c\/strong\u003e comes in three forms:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePNG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreyscale TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might be a temple idol, archaeological find, ritual focus, cult object or beautiful nuisance dragged home by somebody who regards inscriptions reading \u003cstrong\u003eDO NOT REMOVE\u003c\/strong\u003e as evidence of value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eOld Books\u003c\/strong\u003e appear in standard and greyscale forms. They can stand in for grimoires, expedition journals, monastic records, family histories, occult texts or the private research of somebody whose death has recently become relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe books identify the statue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe statue indicates the treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe treasure finances the expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe expedition releases something hideous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdventure design need not always be complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWITCHCRAFT AND THE WORKING WIZARD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eCackling Witch\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eWizard at Work\u003c\/strong\u003e bring magic openly into the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe witch could be a curse-giver, village practitioner, occult antagonist or misunderstood old woman who has finally been vindicated in the least helpful manner possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Cackling” suggests that she is enjoying herself, though not necessarily why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Wizard at Work gives you a fuller scene of magical activity. It can illustrate:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRitual\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlchemy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAstrology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResearch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnchantment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSummoning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dangerous interval between starting an experiment and admitting that control has been lost\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeither piece forces magic to be objectively real. They work just as well for period superstition, fraudulent occultism or accusations of witchcraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens after the scene determines whether the characters have discovered a sorcerer, a charlatan or somebody who was pretending to be a charlatan because the truth attracts mobs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCORPSES AND THE ABRUPT END OF GRAVITY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSavaged Remains\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eFalling Death\u003c\/strong\u003e provide the aftermath and action that historical books often lack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavaged Remains could introduce a monster hunt, murder inquiry, battlefield discovery or wilderness encounter. The title establishes violence but leaves the cause open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn animal may have done it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster may have done it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA human killer may wish everyone to believe an animal did it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration gives the investigators something to examine and the writer several routes towards the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFalling Death captures catastrophe in progress. It might show an accident, execution, attack, battlefield casualty or unfortunate disagreement with architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScenes like these give a publication movement. Portraits tell the reader who inhabits the setting; action tells them what sort of day those people are having.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot a good one, generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eNOIR AFTER DARK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFilm Noir Nightclub\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eNoir Nightmare\u003c\/strong\u003e extend the pack into twentieth-century crime, pulp and psychological horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe nightclub can host detectives, gangsters, singers, spies, criminals or occultists who have sensibly chosen somewhere with low lighting and several exits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can work as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA meeting place\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA criminal front\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA performance venue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn espionage location\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scene of a betrayal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere everybody is pretending not to watch the same table\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoir Nightmare is less literal and more atmospheric. It can accompany dreams, madness, fractured memories, psychic attack or a city beginning to behave like somebody else’s subconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces are particularly useful for period games set between the wars, pulp crime and twentieth-century occult horror. Not all history needs swords. Sometimes it needs whisky, cigarette smoke and a detective who has already made two mistakes before the chapter begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE INSANE HIPPIE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo files carry the original title \u003cstrong\u003eInsane Hippie\u003c\/strong\u003e, one standard and one colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name is a period caricature rather than a diagnosis you need to preserve. The figure could become a countercultural mystic, cultist, protestor, visionary, drug casualty, occult researcher or witness nobody in authority takes seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe belongs in material set around the 1960s or 1970s, psychedelic horror, conspiracy gaming and stories where respectable society has mistaken unconventional appearance for unreliability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe may be incoherent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe may also be the only person who has correctly identified what the statue is doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose conditions are not mutually exclusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE RETRO ROBOT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eRetro Robot\u003c\/strong\u003e is not historical in the conventional sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is historical science fiction: the future as imagined by the past, complete with rounded metalwork, improbable engineering and the confidence of an age that believed atomic power would eventually operate the kettle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse it for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDieselpunk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRetro-futurism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA forgotten wartime project\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn inventor’s mechanical servant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA film prop that has begun functioning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn automaton discovered in an old laboratory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence that the official history of technology has omitted something substantial\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may be the least historically accurate piece in the folder and one of the most useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut it in ancient Rome and you have a time-travel adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut it in a noir nightclub and you have a mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut it beside the pagan idol and somebody has clearly been combining technologies without adequate supervision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE FANTASY BANNER\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Banner\u003c\/strong\u003e is supplied in standard and greyscale TIFF versions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike the character and scene illustrations, this is a decorative layout element. It can be used for headings, chapter titles, sidebars, handouts and recurring page furniture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat may sound less exciting than witches and robots, but decorative stock art solves a real production problem. A repeated banner can give a book some visual continuity, frame section titles and keep the interior from looking like a Word document with occasional corpses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe monsters attract the reader’s attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe layout persuades them that the book was finished deliberately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA COLLECTION TO RAID, RATHER THAN OBEY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical Collection 2 is broad by design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is suited to:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeird history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLost-world games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSword-and-sorcery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRetro science fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoir and period crime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime travel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdult or exploitation-style gaming material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the pictures can carry a single eccentric campaign. Others will earn their keep across several unrelated publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Roman riot does not need to share a book with the hippie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cavewoman does not need to meet the robot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe witch probably ought to meet the robot, but that is now your problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor independent publishers, this sort of mixed collection is useful because it covers the illustrations that rarely justify individual commissions: supporting figures, decorative elements, incidental scenes, treasure, documents and secondary encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSave the bespoke-art budget for the cover and the handful of images unique to your setting. Let stock art deal with the rest of the manuscript’s empty spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEXACT FILE BREAKDOWN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 image files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e18 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e21 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4 PNG files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternative files are supplied for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJungle Girl:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale PNG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFu Manchu:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePagan Goddess Statue:\u003c\/strong\u003e PNG, TIFF and greyscale TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Banner:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInsane Hippie:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and colour TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOld Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other twelve subjects are supplied as individual TIFF files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead that licence before publication and check its requirements concerning credit, alteration and redistribution. Stock artwork is intended for incorporation into finished work, not for repackaging as raw files beneath a hastily designed new logo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore characters, creatures, props and dubious historical incidents can be found in the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRome is rioting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe idol has been removed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe robot has begun asking questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt least the artwork is sorted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29204416168000,"sku":"BMA014","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Hist2.PNG?v=1561021403"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-historical-collection-3","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Historical Collection 3","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHISTORY IS MOSTLY PEOPLE HAVING A TERRIBLE TIME\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bartender, a farmer, a village wisewoman, a cowboy, several hard-looking medieval sorts and one fellow known only as Weasel with Pipe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen come the corpses, cultists, assassinations, executions and demonic bargains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Historical Collection 3\u003c\/strong\u003e is less a parade of famous rulers and more a box full of the people, incidents and bad decisions from which actual adventures are made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files covering 22 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e. Its interests range freely across medieval life, frontier imagery, historical fantasy and supernatural horror. It is not tied to one century or culture, which makes it useful across several books rather than splendidly suited to one chapter and nowhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are portraits for ordinary villagers and supporting characters, action scenes, ominous pieces of scenery and enough occult unpleasantness to drag an otherwise respectable historical publication firmly into the gutter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs it should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHAT IS IN THE DOWNLOAD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCowboy with Colts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCowboy with Colts – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnearthed Cadaver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBartender\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKindly Old Farmer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVillage Idiot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVillage Wisewoman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeasel with Pipe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedieval Tough Guy 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedieval Headshot Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy with Beard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkulls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkulls – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandlelit Message\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfrican Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArcher – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArcher – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBackstab Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBanshee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarbarian Thug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood Cult Leader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCounsel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemonic Pact\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExecution Hill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents list follows the supplied filenames, with production codes and untidy spacing removed. “Village Idiot” is the original, distinctly old-fashioned file title rather than a compulsory identity for the character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are \u003cstrong\u003e25 usable files\u003c\/strong\u003e, rather than 25 wholly different illustrations. The Cowboy, Archer and Skulls each account for one alternate version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA VILLAGE FULL OF PEOPLE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe strongest part of this collection may be its group of ordinary faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBartender\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eKindly Old Farmer\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eVillage Wisewoman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMedieval Headshot Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTough Guy with Beard\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMedieval Tough Guy\u003c\/strong\u003e and the portrait filed as \u003cstrong\u003eVillage Idiot\u003c\/strong\u003e can populate a village, roadside inn, market town, manor or travelling party without making every inhabitant look like an adventurer waiting for a character sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the people who make a setting feel inhabited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe farmer knows which fields the animals avoid. The bartender hears everything and repeats only what profits him. The wisewoman remembers the old burial ground. The bearded tough has been paid not to remember anybody passing through after nightfall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr none of that. They may simply be a farmer, bartender, healer and labourer going about their lives until player characters arrive and turn a local inconvenience into a three-session bloodbath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePortrait stock art earns its place because supporting characters rarely justify individual commissions. They still benefit from faces. A picture gives the reader something to remember and gives the Games Master a chance of keeping the village cast distinct after everybody acquires a name, motive and suspicious cousin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAfrican Man\u003c\/strong\u003e is another broadly usable portrait. The filename identifies no specific date, culture or occupation, so those details remain for the writer to supply. He could be a traveller, soldier, merchant, scholar, sailor, resident or player character according to the setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical artwork should open possibilities, not pretend a small contact-sheet portrait has settled an entire biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCOWBOYS, ARCHERS AND PEOPLE STANDING FAR TOO CLOSE TO KNIVES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe action material covers several very different kinds of historical or historically flavoured violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCowboy with Colts\u003c\/strong\u003e comes in colour and greyscale. It belongs naturally in westerns, weird west, frontier fantasy and pulp adventure, though nothing prevents the figure becoming an outlaw, lawman, hired gun or travelling performer with a flamboyant approach to personal security.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eArcher\u003c\/strong\u003e is also supplied twice, in colour and black-and-white. Archers fit almost anywhere before firearms became boringly efficient: battlefields, hunting parties, castle walls, ambushes, tournaments and woodland bands redistributing wealth with varying degrees of political justification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA separate \u003cstrong\u003eBarbarian Thug\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you a heavier, rougher character for ancient, medieval or fantasy material. The filename does not dictate culture or allegiance. He may be a raider, guard, mercenary, pit-fighter or merely somebody whose tailor has failed to soften the overall impression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen there is \u003cstrong\u003eBackstab Attack\u003c\/strong\u003e, which dispenses with heroic combat in favour of the practical historical method: wait until the other person is occupied and stick something into them from behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can illustrate:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn assassination\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA betrayal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourt intrigue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurder during a riot or battle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe exact moment an alliance expires\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA character learning that “watch my back” was interpreted figuratively\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAction scenes are particularly valuable in stock collections. Portraits tell us who is present; a scene tells us that the plot has already started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBAD NEWS, BOOZE AND CANDLELIGHT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few pieces are quieter and more atmospheric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/strong\u003e suggests aftermath rather than action: unwelcome tidings, a grim evening in an inn, military news, a death notice or somebody attempting to digest catastrophe with liquid assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is evocative without trapping the image inside one story. It could open a scenario, sit beside a rumour table or mark the point where the characters discover that events elsewhere have overtaken their plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCandlelit Message\u003c\/strong\u003e is equally useful as connective tissue. Letters, proclamations, secret instructions, death warrants, coded warnings and intercepted correspondence are the machinery of historical intrigue. Most of history occurred before anybody could send “running late, assassin in courtyard” to the group chat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA message read by candlelight already carries privacy, urgency and uncertainty. Who wrote it? Is it genuine? Why was it delivered after dark?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file titled \u003cstrong\u003eCounsel\u003c\/strong\u003e offers another scene suited to courts, political discussion, private advice or the exercise of influence behind authority. It could accompany a ruler and adviser, family consultation, conspiracy or moment of persuasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces help a publication breathe. Not every page needs a monster roaring or a swordsman lunging towards the reader. Sometimes the plot turns because somebody reads a letter and makes the wrong decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eUNEARTHED, EXECUTED AND PILED NEATLY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical horror is well served here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eUnearthed Cadaver\u003c\/strong\u003e can begin an investigation before a word of introduction has been written. A body has been dug up, exposed or discovered. Its age, identity and condition are entirely yours to determine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it belongs to an old burial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it was placed there last week.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the corpse is ancient but the clothing is new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSkulls\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration comes in standard and greyscale versions. It can sit beside material on death, plague, warfare, catacombs, execution, necromancy or the sort of historical site that tourism boards describe as “atmospheric”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExecution Hill\u003c\/strong\u003e appears to be a full scene rather than another isolated portrait. The filename makes it suitable for gallows, public punishment, dark landmarks, local history and places where the dead have had a long time to become resentful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn execution site may be background colour. It may also be the centre of a haunting, the meeting place of a cult or the one patch of land nobody in the village will cross after dusk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen history and horror overlap, very little invention is required. The past has already supplied disease, famine, war, torture, superstition and countless unidentified bodies. The supernatural merely has to turn up and behave as though it owns the place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCULTS, PACTS AND THE DEAD WHO OBJECT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection’s darker material includes a \u003cstrong\u003eBlood Cult Leader\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDemonic Pact\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBanshee\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Blood Cult Leader might preside over a secret religion, forbidden rite, criminal fraternity or noble household whose family traditions have become unusually demanding. Use the figure as an antagonist, patron, priest or the respectable public face of something conducted below stairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDemonic Pact\u003c\/strong\u003e gives you a complete infernal transaction. It could illustrate summoning, temptation, sorcery, a bargain for power or the regrettable consequences of somebody believing they had read the smaller clauses carefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacts are useful because they create obligations rather than simple attacks. A demon may want payment, service, influence or fulfilment of a promise made by somebody long dead. Killing the summoner need not cancel the agreement. Indeed, contracts often become more difficult when one party is deceased and the other employs supernatural legal counsel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBanshee\u003c\/strong\u003e brings a folkloric spirit into the collection. She can be an omen, ghost, mourner, ancestral guardian or active threat. The cry may announce death, cause it or simply reveal that death has already occurred somewhere out of sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese three illustrations can underpin separate encounters, but they also fit together rather too well: a cult leader makes a pact, an execution follows and the banshee begins appearing to everybody whose name is written in the agreement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePEOPLE RATHER THAN PERIOD LABELS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection is historically themed, but it is not a tightly researched visual guide to one date and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is worth stating plainly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cowboy stands beside medieval villagers. An archer shares the folder with occult scenes and historical horror. The result is a flexible publisher’s collection, not a museum catalogue or costume reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat breadth suits:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedieval fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeird west\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGothic and folk horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical fiction and gaming ’zines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA portrait can often cross centuries with careful use. Clothing and equipment matter, but a close character image may fit several settings where a full architectural scene would not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe safest approach is also the most useful one: take the filenames as broad labels, inspect the image and assign the specific culture, profession and history required by your own project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA PRACTICAL PUBLISHING TOOL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning a unique illustration for every bartender, villager, corpse, archer and cultist would be lovely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt would also cost rather more than most modest supplements are likely to earn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art handles the middle ground. Save the bespoke budget for the cover, signature monsters and setting-specific scenes. Use ready-made work for supporting characters, incidents, chapter furniture and the other illustrations that make a book feel complete without needing to be unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical Collection 3 offers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ready-made village cast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarriors and action scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult and supernatural material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrisly discoveries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAtmospheric narrative pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColour and monochrome alternatives for selected subjects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can support a single broad book or be divided between several smaller releases. The cowboy does not have to meet the banshee. The bartender does not have to serve the Blood Cult Leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey could, obviously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no need to waste a perfectly good bad idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND VARIANTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e22 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCowboy with Colts:\u003c\/strong\u003e colour and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArcher:\u003c\/strong\u003e colour and black-and-white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSkulls:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e19 further subjects supplied as individual TIFF illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit several genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is available for personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead those terms before publication, particularly the provisions covering credit, alteration and redistribution. Buying licensed artwork allows you to incorporate it into your work; it does not ordinarily turn the original files into trade goods for your own stock-art empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther characters, creatures and historical unpleasantness can be found in the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA corpse has been uncovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe message arrived after midnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody has agreed to something infernal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, however, is looking much better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29204558512192,"sku":"BMA015","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Hist3.PNG?v=1561021822"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-historical-collection-4","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Historical Collection 4","description":"\u003ch1\u003eA DISREPUTABLE TOUR THROUGH HISTORY\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistory is not merely kings, dates and impressively dull arguments about grain tariffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is assassins tightening a cord, soldiers staring down tanks, occultists sacrificing people to things best left unnamed, samurai, Puritans, aristocrats, beggars, explorers and sinister museum curators standing beside objects they should never have unpacked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Historical Collection 4\u003c\/strong\u003e contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files covering 24 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e. It is a broad collection rather than a narrowly focused period set, wandering through military history, Victorian streets, feudal Japan, early-modern Europe, pulp archaeology and historical horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it rather useful. A tightly themed pack may serve one book perfectly; this one can be raided repeatedly for adventures, sourcebooks, historical fantasy, alternate history, pulp, occult investigation and anything else requiring people who look as though they existed before hoodies and mobile telephones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE INVENTORY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGhostly Visitor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat Old Ones Cultist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuman Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllinois Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOh Those Knotty Assassins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePanther\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePanzer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShrunken Head\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Armour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Museum Curator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStatuette\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Weird West Troll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictorian Street Person\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWizard’s Study\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFemale Samurai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMalevolent Princess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartial Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobleman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrimitive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePuritan Warrior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Spinster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVood Mask\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe repeated Tattooed Bad-Ass illustration accounts for the difference between 25 files and 24 distinct subjects. It appears in both colour and greyscale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything is supplied in TIFF format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFROM THE DRAWING ROOM TO THE BATTLEFIELD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no single historical period tying this collection together. That is not a defect unless your entire publishing career concerns one extremely specific afternoon in 1647.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eNobleman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMalevolent Princess\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Spinster\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eVictorian Street Person\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePuritan Warrior\u003c\/strong\u003e provide a useful spread of social rank and character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Nobleman can be a patron, suspect, courtier, landowner, magistrate or the sort of man who insists that the law cannot possibly apply to his family. Put him at the head of a faction, behind a desk or beside a recently altered will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Malevolent Princess is more pointedly dramatic. She could be a scheming royal, dark-fantasy antagonist, political hostage or perfectly innocent woman saddled with an unnecessarily judgemental filename. Stock-art titles are suggestions, not sworn testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Spinster belongs in gothic mystery, domestic intrigue or any setting where an apparently respectable household conceals decades of resentment. She might own the house, know the family secret or be the only person in the village whose alarming account of events is entirely accurate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian Street Person gives you somebody from the other end of the social order: a beggar, labourer, informant, witness, displaced veteran or overlooked observer. Historical streets were not populated entirely by officers, gentlemen and women in expensive dresses. Someone had to know which alley the murderer used.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Puritan Warrior can serve civil-war gaming, colonial history, religious conflict, historical fantasy or grim adventures involving severe hats and even severer convictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of these figures arrives with prescribed statistics, loyalties or morals. They are faces waiting for a name and a reason to become involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMUSEUM PIECES THAT SHOULD HAVE REMAINED CRATED\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Museum Curator\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eShrunken Head\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eStatuette\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eVood Mask\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eWizard’s Study\u003c\/strong\u003e provide a compact stock of occult objects, scholarly spaces and suspicious expertise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe curator could be a genuine authority, thief, cultist, collector or scholar who has spent too long alone with the exhibits. Perhaps he is protecting dangerous objects from the public. Perhaps he is protecting the objects from the public. The distinction may not become apparent until after closing time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Shrunken Head and Vood Mask can sit in museum cases, private collections, ritual chambers or evidence photographs. They might be ordinary artefacts burdened by human superstition, genuinely magical objects or props placed to distract attention from something less picturesque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Statuette is another splendidly adaptable object. It could be valuable, sacred, cursed, fraudulent or concealing something inside its base. Give it an inscription, remove it from a sealed tomb and wait for the supporting cast to begin dying in the order they handled it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Wizard’s Study pushes the material towards historical fantasy and occult scholarship. It can introduce a chapter, establish a location or serve as the workplace of an astrologer, alchemist, magician, natural philosopher or professional fraud whose experiments have accidentally started working.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese five pieces could furnish most of a pulp-horror scenario:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn explorer returns with a statuette and a preserved head. A museum curator identifies the mask found beside the body. The dead man’s papers lead to a private study, where the investigators discover that the artefacts were never intended to be displayed separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest is screams and invoicing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eILLINOIS JACKSON\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure filed as \u003cstrong\u003eIllinois Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e is an obvious affectionate nod towards pulp archaeology and cinematic treasure-hunting without requiring your project to use any particular existing character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe can be an explorer, antiquarian, adventurer, tomb robber, university lecturer or man whose research methods rely heavily upon firearms and structural damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and pulp games often need somebody who can bridge polite society and physical adventure. Illinois Jackson looks ready to argue with a curator in the morning, decipher an inscription after lunch and flee a collapsing ruin before dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe could be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA player-character portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rival treasure hunter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe expedition leader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn academic with field experience\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collector who knows exactly where the object came from\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe man who brought the curse home in the first place\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePair him with the Statuette, Shrunken Head, museum material or Great Old Ones Cultist and a serviceable adventure begins assembling itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKNOTTY ASSASSINS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOh Those Knotty Assassins\u003c\/strong\u003e is both a scene and a dreadful pun, which immediately gives it more personality than another static portrait of a man holding a sword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt appears to show an assassination by strangulation and can accompany political murder, criminal conspiracy, court intrigue or an account of historical killing methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe victim may be a nobleman, diplomat, heretic, witness or fellow assassin whose retirement package has been administered somewhat abruptly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can also serve as the incident that begins an adventure. A prominent figure is murdered despite guards, locked doors and no obvious weapon. The cord, technique or choice of victim points towards a particular faction. Unfortunately, several groups have excellent reasons to imitate one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical intrigue thrives on methods that are personal, quiet and difficult to explain away as battlefield misfortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuns draw attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnots are patient.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSACRIFICE, CULTS AND OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNITY ACTIVITY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGreat Old Ones Cultist\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHuman Sacrifice\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGhostly Visitor\u003c\/strong\u003e bring open horror into the historical material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Great Old Ones Cultist can be placed almost anywhere history left darkness, isolation and unrecorded deaths—which is to say, almost anywhere. The figure could represent a lone worshipper, the leader of a hidden society or somebody initiated into a tradition much older than the civilisation surrounding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuman Sacrifice is a complete scene rather than a mere portrait. It can illustrate an interrupted ritual, historical atrocity, dark religion or the moment when the expedition discovers what the missing servants were being used for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ghostly Visitor is quieter and perhaps more versatile. Use it for a haunting, warning, revenant, prophetic dream or visitation from somebody killed before revealing the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images allow a historical book to move into the uncanny without suddenly changing its visual language. The horror grows out of the period rather than arriving from a completely different art pack wearing modern clothes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Victorian ghost story, colonial occult mystery or Puritan confrontation with witchcraft can all draw upon the same selection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWAR, MACHINERY AND THE PEOPLE UNDERNEATH IT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePanzer\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/strong\u003e and some of the harder-looking character portraits can support wartime or military material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Panzer is useful for twentieth-century history, alternate war, dieselpunk, military horror and adventures involving armour substantial enough to make personal bravery feel slightly theoretical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can be shown as a vehicle, threat, unit illustration or part of a battlefield scene. Historical vehicle art is particularly handy because a generic armed man can be repurposed easily; a tank is a tank, and drawing one convincingly requires more than giving a rectangle a cannon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Survivor can be military or civilian. The filename says nothing about what has been survived: battle, massacre, imprisonment, shipwreck, plague or something less natural. That breadth is useful in historical books, where one weathered face may carry more emotional weight than another illustration of men charging heroically through smoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tattooed Bad-Ass appears in colour and greyscale. Though not tied to one obvious period, he could serve colonial adventure, martial fiction, prison stories, gladiatorial material or historical fantasy. Use the version that sits best with the surrounding layout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWar produces heroes, villains, refugees, wreckage and people too busy surviving to fit tidily into any of those categories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood historical art should leave room for all of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSAMURAI, MARTIAL ARTISTS AND PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes a \u003cstrong\u003eFemale Samurai\u003c\/strong\u003e and a separate \u003cstrong\u003eMartial Arts\u003c\/strong\u003e scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe samurai can be used for historical Japan, chanbara-inspired adventure, alternate history or fantasy rooted in Japanese warrior culture. She might be a retainer, duellist, onna-musha, bodyguard, outlaw or player character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe martial-arts image can serve training, combat, instruction or confrontation. It is broad enough to fit several Asian settings or any project requiring hand-to-hand action without pretending that every fight in history involved two Europeans waving longswords.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces sit slightly apart from the European and Victorian material, which increases the collection’s usefulness across multiple projects. You are not required to jam a Puritan, a samurai and a Panzer into one coherent timeline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough that book would probably sell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE WEIRD WEST\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Weird West Troll\u003c\/strong\u003e does precisely what the name promises: introduces a fantasy creature into frontier imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might be an outlaw, prospector, hired gun, native creature, railway worker or simply an enormous fellow who has discovered that a six-shooter makes traditional bridge-based extortion much easier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image belongs in weird-west games, fantasy frontiers, alternate America or pulp settings where folklore and history have been allowed to drink together unsupervised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is also where the Panther can find a home—as wildlife, heraldry, transformed human, supernatural predator or something escaped from a travelling exhibition. The image itself need not be historical in a narrow sense to serve a period adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrontier stories are already filled with isolation, greed, violence and disputed territory. Adding monsters requires surprisingly little alteration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSINISTER ARMOUR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Armour\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration can function as a warrior portrait, cursed suit, historical guardian or animated relic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might depict:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA heavily armoured soldier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ceremonial guard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dark knight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn empty suit animated by magic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArmour displayed in a museum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe occupant of a tomb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething standing in the corridor that was facing the other direction a moment ago\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is another crossover piece, useful in straight history, historical fantasy and horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArmour often survives the person who wore it. That makes it a natural object for legends, hauntings and mistaken identity. Who owned it? Why was the visor sealed? Why does the inside contain scratches?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA historian might have sensible answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sensible answers may be wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE “PRIMITIVE” FILE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne illustration is supplied under the original filename \u003cstrong\u003ePrimitive\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the artist’s file label, not a precise cultural or historical identification. The image is best treated as a broadly tribal, ancient or non-industrial figure whose specific culture should be supplied by the writer rather than guessed from a small contact-sheet preview.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrehistoric adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLost-world material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTribal fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hunter or warrior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn isolated community\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA historical reconstruction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA character from a deliberately invented culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is where care is more valuable than confidence. Assign the figure a specific identity only when your own setting or research supports it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHY THIS COLLECTION IS USEFUL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical publishing has an art problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern, fantasy and science-fiction characters can often be fudged. Historical imagery carries clothing, weapons, architecture and social signals that readers notice immediately. Bespoke period commissions are valuable, but commissioning every nobleman, street figure, occult object and incidental scene can consume a small book’s entire budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection supplies a varied bench of supporting imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces can carry pages: Human Sacrifice, the museum scene, Wizard’s Study, Martial Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOthers provide portraits for characters who need a face but not a costly bespoke commission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe objects and atmospheric images break up dense history or setting material without forcing another full-page action illustration into the layout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is particularly suitable for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeird west\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictorian horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp archaeology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeriod fiction and gaming ’zines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse it across one broad project or divide it between several more focused books. The art does not care which century you put it in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistory has already survived worse treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE EXACT COUNT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo versions of Tattooed Bad-Ass:\u003c\/strong\u003e colour and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23 other separate illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces also occur in other Brad McDevitt collections where they comfortably cross genre boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are supplied for personal and professional projects under the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead that licence before publication. Check its rules regarding attribution, alteration and redistribution rather than depending upon a vague memory of another stock-art agreement you skimmed three years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e contains further historical, fantasy, horror, modern, urban-fantasy and science-fiction material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe assassin has tightened the cord.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe curator has opened the crate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Panzer is moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFortunately, the empty spaces in the manuscript are now under control.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29204665368640,"sku":"BMA016","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/Hist4.PNG?v=1561022105"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-horror-collection-1","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Horror Collection 1","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBLOOD, BANDAGES AND THINGS FROM BEYOND\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 1\u003c\/strong\u003e is a properly mixed bag of horrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are corpses and autopsies, naturally. There are mummies, witches, werewolves and a fungal zombie. Then the collection wanders into stranger country: Innsmouth, dimensional intrusion, surreal nightmare imagery and three different treatments of Crawling Chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn other words, it is not twenty-five nearly interchangeable portraits of people looking mildly sinister. There are monsters, scenes, props, victims, occult figures and grisly discoveries—useful material for filling an entire horror supplement rather than decorating one bestiary chapter and running out of steam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files covering 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, licensed for personal and professional projects under the attached terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHAT YOU GET\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAutopsy Cover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrawling Chaos – black-and-white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrawling Chaos – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrawling Chaos – alternate version\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood and Entrails\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMummy Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEgyptian Warrior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Dark Sorcerer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Mummy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRat and Skull\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerewolf Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntitled creature portrait – filed as CAC258\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInnsmouth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutilant in a Hoodie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurreal Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFungal-Infected Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloody Moon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalled-Up Body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Mask – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDimensional Invader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrisoners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEyes Without a Face\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWitches Trio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorpse on Table\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is \u003cstrong\u003e25 usable image files\u003c\/strong\u003e, with the three Crawling Chaos files accounting for the difference between the file count and the number of distinct subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE MESSY BUSINESS OF DEATH\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fair portion of this collection concerns what happens to the human body when horror has finished with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlood and Entrails\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWalled-Up Body\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eCorpse on Table\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eAutopsy Cover\u003c\/strong\u003e can furnish crime scenes, medical horror, occult investigations or the unpleasant pages of a bestiary where feeding habits are discussed in practical detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Walled-Up Body is ready-made adventure bait. Renovation work exposes human remains behind the plaster; the police assume an old murder, the historian disputes the age of the wall and somebody quietly removes an object from the corpse before the investigators arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorpse on Table can sit in a morgue, laboratory, cellar, ritual chamber or back-room surgery. It is broad enough to support straightforward forensic work, grotesque experimentation or that familiar horror-game moment when everybody agrees the body is definitely dead immediately before it proves otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAutopsy Cover has the scale and composition to work prominently: a chapter opener, title page, scenario frontispiece or striking illustration for a section on medical horror. Stock art is especially valuable when it contains images capable of carrying a page rather than merely filling a corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is not coy about blood or decomposition. That makes it useful for books that want horror to have physical consequences instead of reducing every atrocity to a tasteful shadow on the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHREE HELPINGS OF CRAWLING CHAOS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes three files for \u003cstrong\u003eCrawling Chaos\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA black-and-white treatment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA colour treatment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA further alternate version\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is one illustration in three usable forms, not three unrelated creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image is suited to cosmic horror, chaos entities, obscene manifestations, summoned gods or anything else intended to appear less like an animal and more like biology having a public breakdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe variants give you some practical freedom. The colour version can carry a digital page, handout or prominent feature; the monochrome treatments can sit more comfortably inside traditional black-and-white interiors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could become the central entity of an adventure, the object of a cult’s worship or an illustration reproduced from a forbidden manuscript. A partial glimpse early in the book and the full image later would allow the variants to work together rather than merely giving you a choice between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINNSMOUTH AND OTHER UNWELCOME VISITORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInnsmouth\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDimensional Invader\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSurreal Horror\u003c\/strong\u003e push the collection towards cosmic and reality-bending horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInnsmouth can drop into maritime horror, degenerate coastal communities, aquatic bloodlines or any setting carrying that particular smell of salt, rot and inherited secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDimensional Invader offers something less rooted in familiar folklore. It could accompany a breach, summoning, scientific accident or creature that has entered our world without bothering to adapt itself to local geometry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurreal Horror is useful for dream sequences, psychic assault, impossible environments and those moments when an investigation stops behaving like an investigation. It need not represent a literal creature. It might be a vision, a contaminated memory or what somebody draws after surviving contact with the incomprehensible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are good pieces for writers who prefer horror to retain some mystery. A named vampire comes with expectations. Something crossing through a hole in reality gives the players fewer useful assumptions and the Games Master more room to behave disgracefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMUMMIES: ANCIENT AND OTHERWISE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree files can be pulled into Egyptian or mummy-centred material:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMummy Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEgyptian Warrior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Mummy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMummy Attack gives you the immediate encounter. Whatever tomb was opened, whatever warning was translated and ignored, the consequences have arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Egyptian Warrior can support historical scenes, ancient guardians, visions of the past or characters connected to the mummy’s original life. It allows the book to show more of the culture and conflict around the monster rather than presenting Egypt solely as a warehouse full of cursed corpses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Mummy moves the idea into contemporary horror. That could mean an ancient creature loose in the present, a modern victim subjected to mummification, a preserved occultist or something that has adopted current clothing without making itself markedly less dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, the three images can carry more than a monster entry. They suggest history, confrontation and survival across different eras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWITCHES, SORCERERS AND MASKED PEOPLE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWitches Trio\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eModern Dark Sorcerer\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Mask\u003c\/strong\u003e offer figures for occult plots that require more personality than another pentagram scratched on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA trio of witches immediately suggests relationships. They may be a coven, family, set of rivals or three practitioners temporarily cooperating because something worse has frightened all of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Modern Dark Sorcerer belongs in urban fantasy, contemporary occult horror or any setting where magic has learned to coexist with electric lighting, firearms and suspicious bank transfers. Ancient evil is perfectly capable of using a mobile telephone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour Sinister Mask can represent a killer, cult identity, ritual object, cursed disguise or emblem worn by an organisation. Masks are particularly handy in adventures because they turn an individual villain into a repeatable symbol. Put the same face at several scenes and the players will build half the conspiracy for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether their conclusions are correct is an entirely separate matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eZOMBIES WITH SPECIALIST INTERESTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are two distinctly different zombie pieces here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBlood Zombie\u003c\/strong\u003e is the more direct, bloody undead figure. It can occupy a bestiary entry, outbreak scene or encounter in which the characters’ previous confidence has proved premature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFungal-Infected Zombie\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a more particular source of reanimation. Fungus introduces spores, environmental spread, altered behaviour and the possibility that killing the host does nothing about the infestation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you several routes into an adventure: contaminated buildings, infected food supplies, underground growths, compromised survivors or a cure that works beautifully until the fruiting stage begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two files can represent entirely separate forms of undead or different stages of the same condition. One is the corpse everybody recognises. The other provides a reason for the characters to stop touching things with their bare hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWEREWOLVES, MUTANTS AND URBAN MONSTERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eWerewolf Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMutilant in a Hoodie\u003c\/strong\u003e and untitled \u003cstrong\u003eCAC258\u003c\/strong\u003e creature portrait provide three very different faces for transformation and monstrosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Werewolf Woman can illustrate lycanthropy, shapeshifting or a character caught between human and animal forms. She may be predator, victim, investigator or player character. A transformation does not come with a compulsory moral alignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutilant in a Hoodie brings mutation down to street level. The figure could inhabit a modern city, post-apocalyptic settlement, hidden community or research programme that has begun losing track of its subjects. The ordinary clothing makes the character easier to place among contemporary people rather than isolating them as a specimen against an empty background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file labelled \u003cstrong\u003eCAC258\u003c\/strong\u003e has no descriptive name. It appears to be a monstrous or non-human portrait, but the collection supplies no official identity for it. That ambiguity is useful. Name it according to the project rather than inheriting a taxonomy that does not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could become a demon, mutant, alien, goblin, revenant or one particularly unfortunate local councillor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBLOODY MOONS, RATS AND OTHER USEFUL OMENS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBloody Moon\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eRat and Skull\u003c\/strong\u003e are atmospheric rather than straightforward character portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes them valuable for chapter openings, section breaks, sidebars and recurring motifs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloody Moon can introduce werecreatures, prophecy, ritual nights, supernatural outbreaks or a setting in which the sky itself has begun advertising that something is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRat and Skull speaks more quietly of plague, ruins, death, scavenging or places abandoned by everyone except vermin. It could sit beside rules for disease, an account of a massacre or a location description where the food chain has become alarmingly efficient.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeither needs half a page of accompanying lore. Sometimes a good horror image should simply sit there and make the surrounding text feel less safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePRISONERS AND EYES WITHOUT FACES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePrisoners\u003c\/strong\u003e scene can serve horror, crime, war, cult or captivity scenarios. It raises immediate questions without settling them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho imprisoned them? Why are they still alive? Are they victims awaiting rescue, infected subjects under quarantine or people confined because releasing them would be worse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEyes Without a Face\u003c\/strong\u003e is more ambiguous and more intimate. It can support identity horror, disfigurement, masks, surgery, stolen features, psychic fragmentation or a character who no longer recognises the person in the mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the sort of images that can inspire writing rather than merely illustrate it. A monster portrait answers the question of what the creature looks like. A disturbing scene or face creates several more questions and leaves you to decide which answer will do the most damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePUTTING THE COLLECTION TO WORK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe range here makes Horror Collection 1 useful beyond a single monster book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou could use the mummies and Egyptian warrior in a pulp-horror adventure; reserve the cosmic pieces for a separate investigative supplement; place the witches, sorcerer and mask in urban fantasy; then scatter the corpses and ominous objects through all three.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternatively, there is enough connective tissue to build one thoroughly overloaded campaign:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA walled-up body is discovered wearing an ancient funerary charm. The autopsy reveals fungal growth unlike any terrestrial species. Three witches insist the infection entered through a dimensional breach. A masked sorcerer has been supplying prisoners to something worshipped under the name Crawling Chaos. Meanwhile, the dead have begun moving and the moon has turned red.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubtle? No.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayable? Absolutely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor independent publishers, stock art allows the budget to be concentrated where bespoke work matters most: the cover, signature creatures and anything tightly tied to your setting. Ready-made imagery can carry the supporting cast, incidental horrors, chapter furniture and secondary scenes without making the book look starved of illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five separate commissions would cost rather more than this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat money can now be spent on editing, printing, promotion or the outrageous luxury of paying the writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEXACT FILE COUNT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree supplied versions of Crawling Chaos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo other duplicate subjects apparent in the contact sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll twenty-five files use the TIFF format, although their filename extensions vary between \u003ccode\u003e.tif\u003c\/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003e.TIF\u003c\/code\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they fit more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is licensed for personal and professional projects under the attached terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication, particularly the requirements concerning credit, modification and redistribution. Licensed stock art can be incorporated into your work; the raw files should not be treated as something to repackage and pass around like a folder of holiday photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore creatures, victims and regrettable discoveries can be found in the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and the other \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/horror\"\u003ehorror stock-art collections\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are bodies in the walls, fungus in the dead and something vast attempting to enter our dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill, the art budget is looking healthier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29204810301504,"sku":"BMA017","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/horror1.PNG?v=1561022492"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-horror-collection-2","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Horror Collection 2","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMONSTERS, MURDER SCENES AND A VERY BAD DAY AT THE WAREHOUSE\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a wonderfully disreputable sweep to \u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 2\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has traditional monsters, modern nightmares, cosmic horrors, witches, vampires, cultists, grisly discoveries and a demonic clown. It also has a mad scientist and a strangely coloured surgeon, because medical professionals in horror seldom appear merely to recommend rest and plenty of fluids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e: 24 TIFF files and one PNG. There are no obvious duplicate variants padding the numbers. Each file brings a different character, creature or scene to the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is broad enough to serve several projects rather than requiring you to cram warehouse deaths, alien fungi, murderous bandages and a headless horseman into the same adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough, now that I write that, it does have possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE CONTENTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarehouse Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePierced Vampiress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDumpster Discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurderous Wrappings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeadless Horseman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterrupted Cultists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTroll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster Gator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOni\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavinda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutated Hand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTorn-Up Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExtreme Cyberpunk Pierced Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaughing Witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Punk Demon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDire Wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eByakhee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrey Surgeon – colourised\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuper Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElder Being\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMad Scientist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavaged Remains\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElder Thing – no background\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMi-Go\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemonic Clown\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose are the supplied filenames, tidied for display. They are useful labels, not instructions carved into stone. Rename the characters, alter the context and make the artwork serve your project rather than the other way around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDEATH LEAVES A MESS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral pieces show the discovery, aftermath or inconvenient continuation of violent death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarehouse Death\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDumpster Discovery\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSavaged Remains\u003c\/strong\u003e can all carry crime scenes, chapter openings or the initial revelation that something has gone horribly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarehouse Death is well suited to industrial horror, modern investigation or an incident in a place where the machinery provides ample opportunity for both accident and concealment. The title tells us where and roughly what; the particulars are yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDumpster Discovery gives you the classic urban opening: somebody has found something unpleasant among the rubbish. A body, part of a body, evidence of feeding or the discarded remains of an experiment all fit. It is the sort of image that can start an investigation before the first game statistic appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavaged Remains suggests violence of a less orderly sort. Animal attack, monster feeding, ritual mutilation or a crime staged to resemble any of those are all plausible uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen there is the \u003cstrong\u003eTorn-Up Zombie\u003c\/strong\u003e, for situations where death has already occurred and proven insufficiently decisive. It can illustrate a bestiary entry, outbreak, isolated undead encounter or a corpse that keeps moving despite having lost several persuasive arguments with edged weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMutated Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e works well as evidence. A whole monster announces itself. A hand on a mortuary tray raises questions. Was its owner human? Is the mutation spreading? Is the rest of the creature still alive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore importantly: where is it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE CLASSIC MONSTERS HAVE NOT GONE AWAY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eHeadless Horseman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMurderous Wrappings\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTroll\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDire Wolf\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eOni\u003c\/strong\u003e give the collection a solid grounding in recognisable horror and folklore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Headless Horseman can ride through gothic horror, dark fantasy, historical adventures or modern supernatural stories. He may be a revenant, curse, omen or singularly committed road-safety problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurderous Wrappings points towards a wrapped undead creature without binding you to one particular mythology. Tomb guardian, animated mummy, strangling bandages or a curse taking physical form would all suit the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Troll and Dire Wolf can go directly into bestiaries, wilderness encounters or darker fantasy material. Both are useful crossover pieces: horrific enough for a monster book, familiar enough to require little introductory fuss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Oni gives you a Japanese folkloric presence for games drawing upon supernatural Japan, urban fantasy or broader collections of demons and ogres. It can be used traditionally or transplanted into a modern setting where its appearance is rather harder to explain to the authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of these creatures require an elaborate new cosmology before they become useful. Sometimes you simply need something large, violent and already on the wrong side of the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHORROR FROM OUTSIDE THE HUMAN ARRANGEMENT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eByakhee\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eElder Being\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eElder Thing\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMi-Go\u003c\/strong\u003e give this collection a strong cosmic-horror contingent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey suit ancient alien races, forbidden expeditions, things summoned from elsewhere and creatures whose biology makes the human body look almost sensibly designed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Byakhee can serve as a flying servitor, extraterrestrial predator or summoned creature. Put one above an isolated farmhouse, inside a ritual chamber or circling an archaeological site and the scene immediately acquires problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mi-Go belongs naturally in stories of alien surgery, stolen brains, hidden colonies and scientific knowledge acquired at a price no university ethics committee would approve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Elder Being and Elder Thing offer broader, stranger creature art. They can populate a bestiary, illustrate recovered records or appear as the moment when investigators finally see what all the impossible tracks belonged to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eElder Thing\u003c\/strong\u003e is the collection’s single PNG file and is labelled “no background”. That makes it particularly handy for flexible placement in layouts, though the licence should still be checked before any alteration or redistribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCosmic monsters tend to be difficult commission subjects. Too specific and they look like somebody else’s interpretation; too vague and the artist produces an angry squid. Having several ready-made creatures available can save both money and an awkward sequence of emails concerning the correct number of appendages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVAMPIRES, WITCHES AND OTHER NIGHT PEOPLE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree very different vampire pieces appear here:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePierced Vampiress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuper Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavinda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first brings vampirism into a modern alternative or countercultural setting. She can be a predator, player character, nightclub regular, gang member or somebody who has had several decades to perfect her look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuper Vampire suggests something more physically formidable: an elder, transformed predator, combat-oriented bloodsucker or creature that has abandoned subtle feeding in favour of direct assault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file named \u003cstrong\u003eLavinda\u003c\/strong\u003e appears to be another female horror character, but the filename does not define her nature. She might be vampiric, undead, cursed or entirely human. This is precisely where stock art earns its freedom: use the mood and appearance without inheriting an unwanted biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eLaughing Witch\u003c\/strong\u003e can be sinister, triumphant, deranged or simply delighted that the investigators have performed exactly the ritual she needed. She fits occult horror, dark fantasy, urban witchcraft and stories where the apparently harmless local eccentric turns out to have been right about everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese characters give you monsters who can talk, negotiate, deceive and enter places without knocking the wall down first. That generally makes them more dangerous than the large ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePUNK, CYBERPUNK AND THE MODERN DEMONIC\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eModern Punk Demon\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eExtreme Cyberpunk Pierced Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e drag the collection firmly into contemporary and near-future territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe punk demon could be an actual infernal creature, a transformed club-goer, a member of a supernatural subculture or the sort of entity that treats summoning circles as invitations to gigs. It suits urban fantasy particularly well because it looks adapted to the world rather than freshly imported from a medieval manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cyberpunk figure can become an augmented street character, investigator, ganger, mercenary or survivor of technological body modification. The artwork can work in science fiction, modern horror or settings where surgery, fashion and self-defence have become difficult to tell apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces pair naturally with the \u003cstrong\u003eGrey Surgeon\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMad Scientist\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colourised Grey Surgeon could be an alien physician, underground operator, experimental specialist or supposed healer whose methods explain why the consent form was several pages longer than expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mad Scientist needs no defence. Laboratories, reanimation, mutation, unethical surgery and attempts to improve humanity against its wishes are all available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, these images can furnish a medical-horror adventure almost by themselves: altered patients, illicit procedures, strange remains and a surgeon whose species remains uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCULTISTS AND CLOWNS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterrupted Cultists\u003c\/strong\u003e captures one of horror gaming’s perennial pleasures: bursting into a ritual halfway through and trying to work out whether stopping it would make matters better or worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration can introduce:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sacrificial rite\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn occult gathering\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA summoning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA secret religious ceremony\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn operation the characters have comprehensively misunderstood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is useful as a scene rather than merely a portrait. A scene gives the reader activity, context and several unanswered questions at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDemonic Clown\u003c\/strong\u003e, meanwhile, requires almost no salesmanship. Clowns already sit close enough to horror that adding demonic qualities feels less like transformation and more like administrative clarification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can work in carnival horror, urban fantasy, nightmare sequences, occult satire or a monster book requiring something unpleasantly cheerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe clown may be possessed. It may be a demon wearing the form. It may simply be a terrible person with supernatural abilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of the options improve matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBUILDING A BOOK OUT OF THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a particularly practical assortment because it contains more than isolated monster portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are scenes, bodies, evidence, human-scale characters and full creatures. That lets you vary the look of a book rather than presenting twenty-five consecutive suspects against empty backgrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse Warehouse Death or Dumpster Discovery to open an investigation. Drop in the Mutated Hand as evidence. Introduce the Grey Surgeon and Mad Scientist as suspects. Let the cultists provide the first explanation, then reveal that their ritual was intended to keep the Elder Being asleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vampires can populate a modern faction, the folkloric creatures can fill a bestiary and the cosmic monsters can occupy the later chapters where everything becomes considerably less manageable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr scatter the files across separate publications. A Headless Horseman adventure has no obligation to share a page with the Mi-Go. Stock art exists to be useful, not to enforce editorial unity by threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor an independent publisher, 25 distinct illustrations can cover a substantial part of a modest book. They can break up dense text, give memorable characters a face and leave the commissioning budget free for the cover or those handful of images that must match the manuscript precisely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBespoke art remains ideal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing able to afford the rest of the book is also quite nice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE PRACTICAL COUNT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct image files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1 PNG file\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo duplicate colour or greyscale variants apparent in the preview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Elder Thing is the PNG and is labelled as having no background. All other listed pieces are TIFF files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they fit more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is supplied for personal and professional projects under the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication, particularly its terms concerning credit, modification and redistribution. 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This is material for books that want monsters to look monstrous, violence to leave a mark and the weird stuff to remain properly weird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 image files covering 17 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e. Most are TIFFs, with eight PNG files among the set. Several illustrations come in colour, black-and-white or greyscale alternatives, giving you useful options for different interiors rather than pretending each variation is an entirely new piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse them in horror adventures, bestiaries, modern occult games, urban fantasy, splatter, pulp, dark science fiction or any project presently haunted by empty spaces marked \u003cstrong\u003eARTWORK REQUIRED\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE CONTENTS, WITHOUT CREATIVE ACCOUNTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGruesome Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMacabre Demon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFashion Mutant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlasher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploitation Slime Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeretiger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemon – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemon – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemon – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReanimated Hand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReanimated Hand – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScary Little Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrow and Eyeball\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrow and Eyeball – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrow and Eyeball – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHentai Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePunk Naga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Horror Mask\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Horror Mask – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Horror Mask – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban Predators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFu Manchu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFu Manchu – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAxe to Grind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankenstein’s Monster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is \u003cstrong\u003e25 files\u003c\/strong\u003e, not 25 unrelated illustrations. The distinction matters, particularly when everybody involved can count.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE DEAD AND THEIR DETACHED COMPONENTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGruesome Zombie\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFrankenstein’s Monster\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eReanimated Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e cover three dependable branches of unnatural life: the walking corpse, the assembled corpse and the inconvenient bit of corpse operating independently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe zombie can carry a bestiary entry, introduce an outbreak or occupy the foreground while its friends mass behind the barricade. It is specific enough to deliver the expected rot and violence, but broad enough to fit modern horror, fantasy, science fiction or an especially unsuccessful medical drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankenstein’s Monster needs little introduction. 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They can serve Hell, an invented pantheon, a cosmic intelligence or a suburban magician who has badly overestimated the protections offered by a chalk circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMUTANTS, HYBRIDS AND THINGS WITH COMPLICATED ANCESTRY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFashion Mutant\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWeretiger\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePunk Naga\u003c\/strong\u003e give the collection a strong urban-fantasy and body-horror streak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFashion Mutant is a marvellous title because it leaves plenty of room for interpretation. The figure might belong to a decadent future, a mutant subculture, a supernatural nightclub or an experiment whose creators were more concerned with presentation than ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Weretiger offers an alternative to the seemingly compulsory werewolf. It can be a cursed human, hereditary shapeshifter, occult assassin or predator attached to a particular place, family or tradition. Drop it into a familiar lycanthrope plot and half the assumptions the players brought with them become useless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Punk Naga combines mythic anatomy with modern attitude. 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Use them where their excess belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Slime Attack could illustrate engulfment, mutation, an alien organism, an escaped laboratory creation or the point where a monster encounter acquires distinctly adult overtones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHentai Horror is similarly suited to projects where sex, monstrosity and bodily transformation are part of the material rather than something coyly omitted between paragraphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth images can also function as reminders that horror has never been a uniformly respectable genre. It has always contained grubby magazines, lurid posters, forbidden paperbacks and artwork calculated to upset whichever moral custodian was nearest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRespectability is optional. Effective illustration is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePEOPLE WITH WEAPONS AND POOR IMPULSE CONTROL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSlasher\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eAxe to Grind\u003c\/strong\u003e belong to the human—or at least approximately human—side of horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Slasher can carry the obvious role in a masked-killer scenario, but it could also represent an executioner, vigilante, cult enforcer or recurring figure whose identity matters more than its statistics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAxe to Grind has an excellent double meaning built into the filename. The wielder might be a murderer, survivor, woodsman, monster hunter or someone settling a grievance with unusual literalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images are useful because human threats change the temperature of a book. A demon may require research, ritual and specialised weapons. A person with an axe can be understood immediately and may already know where the characters live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the mundane explanation is worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE SCARY LITTLE GIRL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorror understands that children make adults lower their guard. It has been exploiting this tactical error for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eScary Little Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e might be a ghost, psychic, possessed child, unnatural copy, dangerous innocent or merely the one person in the story who can see what is actually happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe can stand at the end of a corridor, appear in an old photograph or calmly explain something no child should know. She might need rescuing. She might be bait. She might have arranged the entire sequence of events because the grown-ups continued refusing to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture can support a complete adventure by itself. Give her a name, decide what she wants and work out why every adult in authority has misunderstood the situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen let the players misunderstand it differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA CROW, AN EYEBALL AND THREE WAYS TO PRINT THEM\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrow and Eyeball\u003c\/strong\u003e is supplied in colour, black-and-white and greyscale forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt works as a striking symbolic image for surveillance, prophecy, death, witchcraft, unnatural sight or a particularly unpleasant familiar. It might be a chapter opener, cult emblem, magical effect, monster illustration or recurring motif threaded through a book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image does not need an elaborate explanation to earn space. Sometimes an arresting piece of horror art is doing its job simply by making the reader stop and look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three treatments make it easy to reuse across different products or place it wherever the surrounding layout demands a particular tonal weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMASKS, IDENTITIES AND WHATEVER IS UNDERNEATH\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eModern Horror Mask\u003c\/strong\u003e also comes in three treatments: standard, black and white, and greyscale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMasks are useful horror images because they conceal, transform and announce at the same time. This one could belong to a killer, gang, performer, cult, protest movement or supernatural identity adopted by several different people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can serve as a character portrait, faction symbol or visual clue. Put the mask at one crime scene, repeat it later and allow the players to construct a conspiracy whether you had one prepared or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is not laziness. It is responsive campaign design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mask need not even be worn. It could be found in a locker, sealed inside an evidence bag or hanging in a room where nobody admits to owning it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eURBAN PREDATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file titled \u003cstrong\u003eUrban Predators\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a ready-made piece for city horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is broad enough to cover criminals, monsters, hunters or people who have become difficult to distinguish from any of the above. 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The figure can be renamed and used as any scholar, cult leader, criminal patron or ominous gentleman required by the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art works best when you treat filenames as labels, not commandments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePUTTING THE COLLECTION TO WORK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is enough here to illustrate a compact horror adventure without every page looking as though it belongs to a different book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA possible sequence suggests itself:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA severed hand is recovered after a slime attack. The surviving witness insists the attacker was human before it began changing. Research turns up an old photograph containing the Scary Little Girl and a masked figure. A crow has been left at each scene, its eye surgically altered. The trail leads through an urban supernatural community to a demon passing itself off as a fashionable mutant. Meanwhile, somebody with an axe is removing witnesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is merely one arrangement. The collection is deliberately mixed. You can strip it for individual monsters, reserve the variants for layout needs or scatter the images across several smaller releases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art earns its keep by solving ordinary publishing problems. It fills a bestiary, breaks up walls of text, gives an NPC a face and allows limited commission money to be spent on the handful of illustrations that genuinely must be unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five ready-made files will not finish the book for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey will make finishing it considerably less expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE TECHNICAL TALLY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 image files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e17 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e17 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8 PNG files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate versions are supplied for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDemon:\u003c\/strong\u003e black and white, colour and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReanimated Hand:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrow and Eyeball:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard, black and white and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern Horror Mask:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard, black and white and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFu Manchu:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other twelve subjects are supplied as single illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they straddle more than one genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional projects under the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publishing. Check what it requires regarding credit, alteration and redistribution, rather than discovering after release that your understanding of the terms was based upon optimism and a hurried glance at the filename.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore monsters, characters and ill-advised discoveries can be found in the wider \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and the other \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/horror\"\u003ehorror stock-art collections\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe demon is ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hand is mobile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe little girl knows your name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt least the layout is coming together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29205038465088,"sku":"BMA019","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/horror3.PNG?v=1561023119"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-horror-collection-4","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Horror Collection 4","description":"\u003ch1\u003eA WHOLE HORROR BOOK’S WORTH OF BAD NEWS\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no single flavour of horror in this collection. It lurches cheerfully from zombie apocalypse to urban fantasy, through cosmic monstrosities, carnivals, vampires, mutants and occult clergy, pausing only to rummage through some old books and stare meaningfully at a severed-looking hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 4\u003c\/strong\u003e contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 image files covering 20 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, suitable for adventures, sourcebooks, bestiaries, fiction, ’zines, handouts and whatever other grim little publication you are trying to drag over the finishing line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the collection is supplied as TIFF artwork. Two additional PNG files are included for the Zombie Horde. Several pieces also come with greyscale alternatives, which is handy when your print budget is less Hammer Horror and more church newsletter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is available for personal and professional projects, subject to the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE FOLDER\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZombie Horde – TIFF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZombie Horde – greyscale PNG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZombie Horde – PNG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreepy Doll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScarred Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScarred Woman – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChthonian Wyrm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFalling Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePunk Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant Hand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban Fantasy Tarantula\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlien Invader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerpent Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Books – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlind Bat Priest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlind Bat Priest – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElder Thing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsycho Killer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechno Demon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGruesome Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelting Mutant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLord of Worms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarnival of Terror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is \u003cstrong\u003e25 usable files\u003c\/strong\u003e, rather than the inflated claim of 25 completely different illustrations. The distinction is worth making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDEAD PEOPLE, MOSTLY UNCOOPERATIVE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with a \u003cstrong\u003eZombie Horde\u003c\/strong\u003e supplied in three forms, then adds a \u003cstrong\u003eGruesome Zombie\u003c\/strong\u003e for closer work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe horde is the obvious choice for an outbreak, siege, mass rising or any chapter in which the problem has moved beyond one corpse and become a matter for local government. The separate zombie works better as an individual encounter, bestiary entry or face for the thing currently pushing through the barricade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three Horde files give you a TIFF, a standard PNG and a greyscale PNG. 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It suits body horror, toxic accidents, failed experiments, radiation, unstable transformations or magic behaving like industrial waste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScarred Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e, supplied in standard and greyscale versions, is much broader in application. She could be a survivor, investigator, villain, mercenary, witness or player character. The scars tell us that something happened; they do not oblige you to use the artist’s original context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSerpent Man\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs equally well in pulp horror, occult conspiracy, lost-race fiction, urban fantasy or science fiction. 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It can be used for an invasion, containment breach, first contact, government conspiracy or the revelation that the lights over the moor were not weather balloons after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images need not share a mythology. On the other hand, they can. A worm cult uncovering an alien ruin and mistaking its occupant for a god is already most of the way to an adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCITY NIGHTS, BAD HABITS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePunk Vampire\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eUrban Fantasy Tarantula\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTechno Demon\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePsycho Killer\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/strong\u003e pull the collection towards modern horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Punk Vampire is not obliged to brood in ancestral property. Put them in a squat, club, condemned station, music scene or criminal underworld. 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Half the pleasure of such an illustration is putting it on the page before the full revelation and allowing the reader to wonder what in God’s name they are looking at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePossibly God has nothing to do with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCREEPY OBJECTS AND WORSE READING MATERIAL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every horror illustration needs to be a creature posing for its entry in the bestiary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eCreepy Doll\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eOld Books\u003c\/strong\u003e are useful precisely because they are objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA doll can be haunted, cursed, inhabited, used as a ritual focus or entirely innocent while everybody blames it for events taking place elsewhere. It can appear in a child’s room, an evidence locker, a museum case or sitting somewhere nobody remembers leaving it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Old Books are supplied in standard and greyscale versions. They can stand in for grimoires, journals, family records, ritual texts or the sort of research material that gives investigators accurate information at severe personal cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey also make useful chapter furniture. A book image can introduce magic, history, research or lore without tying the page to a specific character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCARNIVAL OF TERROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarnivals offer bright lights, masks, crowds, temporary structures and people whose job already involves looking unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eCarnival of Terror\u003c\/strong\u003e can be used as a location piece, chapter opener or illustration for a whole adventure. Perhaps the carnival is haunted. Perhaps the performers are monsters. Perhaps the show is a cover for ritual activity, disappearances or a travelling community fleeing something even worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe great advantage of carnival horror is plausible deniability. Strange makeup, unnatural movement and impossible costumes are all part of the performance until somebody fails to take theirs off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWHY STOCK ART EARNS ITS PLACE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBespoke commissions are wonderful. They are also hungry creatures that consume budgets, deadlines and the attention of whichever artist has suddenly become impossible to contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art is the practical answer for everything that does not absolutely require a unique commission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can provide:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonsters and bestiary entries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter-opening illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime-scene or clue imagery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult props\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern-horror atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCosmic-horror creatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecorative breaks in long stretches of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is especially useful for smaller supplements, adventures and ’zines where commissioning two dozen separate illustrations would turn a modest project into an act of financial self-harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the strongest pieces prominently. Scatter the smaller or more specialised images through encounters, sidebars and lore sections. Keep the variants for alternate editions or different layout needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat empty box marked \u003cstrong\u003eART\u003c\/strong\u003e has been sitting there judging you for long enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILE BREAKDOWN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe download contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 files representing 20 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23 TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2 PNG files\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate versions are provided for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZombie Horde:\u003c\/strong\u003e TIFF, PNG and greyscale PNG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScarred Woman:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale TIFFs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOld Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale TIFFs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlind Bat Priest:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale TIFFs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other 16 subjects are supplied as individual TIFF illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome artwork may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where it crosses comfortably between genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe files are supplied for personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead it before publication. 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Severed faces. Unearthed cadavers. Blood cults. Human sacrifice. Cannibals, catmen and wolves beneath the full moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome horror whispers from behind a closed door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of it has already eaten whoever opened the door first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 5\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF image files representing 18 distinct horror subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, ready for use by publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection combines gore, occult ritual, supernatural predators, frightened victims, sinister characters and atmospheric material. It is particularly useful for modern horror, urban fantasy, occult investigation, splatter, crime-horror, dark fantasy and publications that do not require every corpse to remain tasteful, intact or discreetly off-page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral illustrations are supplied in alternate colour, black-and-white or greyscale forms, providing additional flexibility for print and digital layouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 25 supplied TIFF files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGnawed Bone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGnawed Bone – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Nightmare Look – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Nightmare Look – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Nightmare Look – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyberBurn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSevered Face\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSevered Face – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Moon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Moon – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStalking Wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStalking Wolf – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnearthed Cadaver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerrified Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkulls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkulls – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMental Patient\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Trade Dress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictorian Urban Catman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngel’s Pain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnimal Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautiful Cannibal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood Cult Leader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBody Bag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you physical evidence, supernatural threats, occult figures, victims, predators and several illustrations capable of making a page considerably less comfortable to look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich is rather the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGNAWED BONES AND UNEARTHED BODIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGnawed Bone\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eUnearthed Cadaver\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSevered Face\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSkulls\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBody Bag\u003c\/strong\u003e illustrations provide a strong collection of grisly evidence for investigations, bestiaries and scenes where something appalling has already happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurder mysteries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster attacks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchaeological horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCannibalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForensic investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUndead outbreaks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCult activity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe discovery that the missing people have not merely moved away\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gnawed Bone is supplied in standard and greyscale versions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt could be evidence of an animal attack, a monster’s feeding ground, ritual activity or something living beneath a settlement. The marks may identify the creature—or establish that nobody has previously encountered anything with that arrangement of teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Unearthed Cadaver can introduce grave robbery, archaeological horror, necromancy or the discovery of a body buried where no body should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Severed Face, supplied in two versions, offers more graphic body-horror imagery for projects requiring something more visceral than a discreet bloodstain and a detective looking concerned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Body Bag can begin a crime investigation, mark the aftermath of violence or raise the obvious question:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is it moving?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE NIGHTMARE LOOK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Nightmare Look\u003c\/strong\u003e is supplied in three forms:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it the most extensively varied illustration in the collection and allows it to fit colour interiors, traditional monochrome role-playing books and digital publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural transformation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic assault\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBody horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHallucination\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePossession\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNightmare sequences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContact with something the human mind was not designed to process\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title suggests the moment when terror stops being abstract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone has seen something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps they have understood it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it has entered them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the distinction no longer matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the image as a character illustration, chapter opener or visual representation of the precise moment an investigation becomes personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSACRIFICE AND THE OCCULT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains several pieces suited to ritual, cult and occult horror:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnimal Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood Cult Leader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngel’s Pain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese illustrations can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForbidden ceremonies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood magic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecret societies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemonic worship\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRitual murder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark fantasy religions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigations into supernatural crimes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCults whose charitable status deserves immediate review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBlood Cult Leader\u003c\/strong\u003e can become a ritualist, charismatic fanatic, supernatural servant or apparently respectable figure presiding over something thoroughly indecent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAnimal Sacrifice\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDark Sacrifice\u003c\/strong\u003e images can illustrate ritual activity without imposing a single explanation. The rites may be magical, religious, fraudulent or horrifyingly effective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngel’s Pain\u003c\/strong\u003e can support stories involving fallen angels, divine punishment, wounded celestial beings or mortals suffering beneath powers that claim to be holy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe existence of angels does not necessarily mean the universe is benevolent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt merely means the management structure is larger than expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE BEAUTIFUL CANNIBAL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBeautiful Cannibal\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a character whose attractiveness and appetite appear to have reached an unfortunate accommodation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sophisticated murderer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural predator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA member of a secret cannibal society\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cursed immortal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern ghoul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA charming dinner companion with extremely selective dietary requirements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA player character in a suitably transgressive campaign\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration is well suited to adult horror, urban fantasy, crime-horror and stories in which monstrosity is concealed behind beauty, wealth or social confidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every predator needs claws.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome own excellent clothes, understand table manners and know precisely which wine accompanies a former acquaintance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE VICTORIAN URBAN CATMAN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVictorian Urban Catman\u003c\/strong\u003e crosses gothic horror, historical fantasy and urban fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA transformed human\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural gentleman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA member of a hidden species\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cursed aristocrat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA feline shapeshifter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn occult investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA creature navigating the modern world with distinctly old-fashioned manners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image can be used in a Victorian setting, carried into the present as an immortal character or adapted for any world where human and animal qualities meet in one unsettling figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he hunts monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he is one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he considers that distinction socially vulgar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE FULL MOON AND THE STALKING WOLF\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFull Moon\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eStalking Wolf\u003c\/strong\u003e are each supplied in standard and greyscale versions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether they provide ready-made atmosphere for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerewolf adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilderness horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShapeshifter campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural pursuit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRural mysteries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult calendars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter headings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScenes in which the characters really should have checked the date\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wolf might be an ordinary predator, a transformed human, a magical guardian or an engineered creature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe moon may simply establish atmosphere—or mark the arrival of a recurring supernatural threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces can be used together without requiring a conventional werewolf story. A cult may conduct its rites beneath the full moon. A hunter may follow the wolf. The wolf may be protecting the characters from something worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFamiliar symbols remain useful because readers understand them immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trick is deciding whether to fulfil that expectation or bite it on the throat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFEAR WITH A HUMAN FACE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eTerrified Man\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a clear image of somebody confronted by danger, revelation or both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe can serve as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA witness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA survivor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA victim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suspect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn investigator who has found the answer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody encountering the supernatural for the first time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last person recovered from a missing expedition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image does not dictate what he has seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it useful across numerous horror genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he has discovered the cadaver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he witnessed the sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he knows what is inside the body bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he has finally understood why the wolf has been following him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFear becomes more effective when readers see its effect upon somebody else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster tells them what the danger looks like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA terrified witness tells them what it feels like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCYBERBURN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration titled \u003cstrong\u003eCyberBurn\u003c\/strong\u003e brings technological or bodily horror into the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDepending upon your setting, it might be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCybernetic injury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExperimental technology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeural damage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBody modification\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA failed augmentation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComputer-mediated horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fiction trauma\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe consequences of connecting human flesh to 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witness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA survivor nobody believes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA patient affected by supernatural events\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody confined to suppress an inconvenient story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suspect undergoing treatment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA person whose apparent delusions are entirely accurate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe strongest use of such a character is not simply as a caricatured threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA patient may be vulnerable, perceptive, manipulated or the only person who understands what is happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps everyone assumes the character is unreliable because the truth sounds impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn horror, sanity and accuracy are not 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ornamental identity to a publication\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock-art collections are more useful when they contain more than isolated figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA decorative element can help unify the page design and prevent the book from looking like a pile of unrelated illustrations dropped between paragraphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven the monsters appreciate competent layout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey simply express this appreciation badly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFROM A SINGLE IMAGE TO A COMPLETE ADVENTURE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains enough interconnected imagery to suggest an entire investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA body bag is delivered to the morgue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe corpse inside is missing its face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarks upon a gnawed bone suggest an unknown animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA terrified witness describes a wolf moving beneath the full moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trail leads to a blood cult and its beautiful cannibal patron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unearthed cadaver provides evidence that the killings began generations ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian Catman offers his assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody has yet established whether this is reassuring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou do not need to use the illustrations together, but doing so can provide the foundations of a scenario, campaign chapter or complete horror supplement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk what happened immediately before it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk what will happen immediately afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen involve the player characters at the least convenient point between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning bespoke artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the illustration a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers must divide limited budgets between writing, editing, layout, promotion, printing and the oddly controversial notion that creative work should eventually produce an income.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art offers a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate monsters, victims and occult figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent horror atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense sections of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and sourcebooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter 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Modern vampires. Graveyard ghouls. Demons, cultists, haunted houses and something unpleasant crawling away from a car accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorror comes in many forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of them photograph badly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 6\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 horror-themed TIFF files representing 24 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, ready for use by publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection covers traditional monsters, modern horror, the undead, occult characters, unsettling locations and stranger things drawn from cosmic and folkloric horror. It includes black-and-white artwork alongside selected colour pieces, providing material for adventures, sourcebooks, fiction, ’zines and other personal or professional projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 25 supplied files are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eByakhee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCar Accident Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarnival Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDapper Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemon 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catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE WELL-DRESSED DEAD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dead do not always rise in torn burial shrouds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes they make an effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDapper Zombie\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eElegant Monster\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eModern Vampire\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eImmortal Lover\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGoth Pearls\u003c\/strong\u003e provide horror characters with rather more poise than the average shambling corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can be used as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSophisticated undead antagonists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural socialites\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImmortal 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\u003cstrong\u003eGhoul\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGraveyard Ghoul\u003c\/strong\u003e offer creatures for cemeteries, crypts, tunnels and places where the dead are stored in quantities sufficient to attract predators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eZombie Headshot\u003c\/strong\u003e can serve as a monster portrait, chapter illustration, player handout or evidence that somebody’s attempt to destroy the creature was only partially successful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZombies are familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat merely allows you to introduce them without wasting time on explanations before the screaming begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDEMONS AND DEVILS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDemon\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDevil\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDemon Car\u003c\/strong\u003e provide several routes into infernal and supernatural horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Demon and Devil can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSummoned creatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult adversaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInfernal patrons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePossession\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemonic cults\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreatures encountered during rituals that have gone predictably wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDemon Car\u003c\/strong\u003e brings horror into a more modern and mobile form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe filename leaves its precise nature open. It might be a cursed vehicle, an infernal machine, a car associated with a demonic driver or simply an ominous piece of artwork for a scenario involving road horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA haunted house waits for the characters to enter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demonic car can come looking for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCOSMIC HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eByakhee\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGreat Old Ones Cultist\u003c\/strong\u003e provide ready-made material for cosmic horror and games influenced by the strange fiction tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Byakhee can serve as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn alien creature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA summoned servant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA winged monster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA messenger from beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA guardian of forbidden places\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething encountered during an expedition that has gone far beyond the limits of responsible scholarship\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Great Old Ones Cultist can become a ritualist, scholar, fanatic or apparently ordinary person who has discovered something vast and responded by worshipping it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCosmic horror does not require every threat to be understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fact, understanding is frequently where the real trouble begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse these illustrations for cults, forbidden texts, impossible creatures and investigations in which discovering the truth is not necessarily a victory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHAUNTINGS AND HORRIBLE PLACES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGhostly Visitor\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHaunted House\u003c\/strong\u003e provide supernatural characters and locations for more traditional ghost stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ghostly Visitor might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA recurring apparition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dead relative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural messenger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA warning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe former occupant of a house\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spirit that has followed somebody home\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething pretending to be a familiar ghost\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Haunted House can become:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe centre of a complete adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA family home with an unpleasant history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn abandoned property\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA crime scene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe headquarters of a cult\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA building that appears upon no current map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere whose former inhabitants have not entirely left\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA haunted house remains effective because it corrupts somewhere intended to provide shelter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe doors lock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe walls keep the danger inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the characters have usually agreed to spend the night before anyone notices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHAGS, CATS AND FOLKLORIC HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eHag\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJapanese Demon Cats\u003c\/strong\u003e offer material for folklore, supernatural fantasy and horror drawn from older traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hag might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA curse-giver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster living beyond the settlement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spirit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA shape-changing predator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA keeper of dangerous knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn apparently helpful old woman who charges more than money\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eJapanese Demon Cats\u003c\/strong\u003e can support adventures involving supernatural animals, transformed spirits, curses or creatures whose harmless appearance should not be taken at face value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be companions, antagonists, omens or the first indication that something is wrong with the household.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCats are already capable of staring at empty corners for several minutes at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supernatural explanation is hardly less reassuring than the ordinary one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCULTS, SACRIFICE AND RELIGIOUS HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGreat Old Ones Cultist\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHuman Sacrifice\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHardcore Priest\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eEaster Image 2011\u003c\/strong\u003e provide material for religious, ritual and occult horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images can accompany:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForbidden ceremonies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCult activity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExorcism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReligious conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSacrificial rites\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster hunting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApocalyptic scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStories involving faith under extremely practical pressure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eHardcore Priest\u003c\/strong\u003e can represent an exorcist, militant clergyman, monster hunter or member of a religious order prepared to supplement prayer with direct action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eHuman Sacrifice\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a complete scene of occult danger and can serve as an adventure opening, chapter illustration or the moment when the investigators finally discover what the missing people were being used for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEaster Image 2011\u003c\/strong\u003e provides religiously themed horror imagery that can be adapted according to the tone and needs of the project without imposing a single interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaith may be a defence against evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may also be the excuse evil uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCARNIVALS AND PUBLIC HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eCarnival Horror\u003c\/strong\u003e brings the grotesque into a public, theatrical setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarnivals make useful horror locations because they already depend upon disguise, spectacle and the deliberate confusion of the ordinary with the strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration could support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA haunted carnival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sinister performer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA travelling freak show\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cursed attraction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural celebration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA public event concealing ritual activity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA troupe whose members are not entirely human\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe crowds provide witnesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe costumes provide camouflage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music ensures nobody hears the first scream clearly enough to react.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHUMAN HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection also contains images whose menace need not be supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDerelict\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMeat Cleaver\u003c\/strong\u003e and some of the more ambiguous character pieces can support crime, slasher fiction, psychological horror and investigations involving ordinary human cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Derelict is a character portrait rather than a ruined building and can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA homeless or displaced character\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA witness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA survivor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suspect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn informant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone overlooked by the authorities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA person who has seen exactly what prowls the streets after dark\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMeat Cleaver\u003c\/strong\u003e provides an immediate image of physical threat, domestic horror or violence conducted with unpleasant proximity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might accompany a killer, butcher, frightened survivor or somebody who has armed themselves with whatever was available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image establishes danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writer decides who deserves to be afraid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT CREATES ADVENTURES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUseful stock art does more than occupy space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt asks questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerged from the car wreck?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho invited the Dapper Zombie?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the haunted house still maintained?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the cultist expect to awaken?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is the Immortal Lover waiting for?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the graveyard ghoul leaving the cemetery?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is wrong with the carnival?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho performed the human sacrifice?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the priest armed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat followed the Ghostly Visitor through the door?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what its subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something inconvenient in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the resulting trouble to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, investigation or complete adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning original artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the image a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers must generally divide limited budgets between writing, editing, layout, printing, promotion and the unfashionable ambition of being paid for their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate monsters and characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense sections of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent horror atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and sourcebooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate handouts and visual clues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopulate bestiaries and antagonist sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable library for future projects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReplace those accusing boxes marked \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES 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ghouls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampires and immortals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemons and devils\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCosmic horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGhosts and haunted locations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolkloric creatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCults and ritual horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuman villains and victims\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern and gothic horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis distinction means you receive 25 usable files without falsely presenting the alternate version as a completely different subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for 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Undead pharaohs. Sabretoothed werewolves. Sinister clergy. Haunted children and shrunken heads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world contains no shortage of unpleasant things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour horror project should not either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 7\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF image files representing 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, ready for use by publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters who need strong, distinctive horror artwork without commissioning every illustration separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from undead monsters and supernatural predators to occult characters, human killers, eerie children and stranger creatures that sit somewhere between fantasy, horror and science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the artwork is presented in Brad McDevitt’s bold black-and-white style, with colour and greyscale alternatives supplied for selected pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 25 supplied files depict:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Demon – colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Demon – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMystic Ascension\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMystic Redhead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNSFW Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRedneck Zombie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSabretooth Werewolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSexy Modern Ghost\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShrunken 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altered lycanthrope\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA genetic experiment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural predator adapted to a lost world\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething considerably worse than the creature the characters originally prepared to hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSexy Modern Ghost\u003c\/strong\u003e brings the supernatural into a contemporary setting. 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consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOCCULTISTS AND SINISTER EXPERTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorror stories often require people who know what is happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, these people are rarely trustworthy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Shaman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Museum Curator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMystic Ascension\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMystic Redhead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad-Ass Priest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClergy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Shaman\u003c\/strong\u003e can represent an occult practitioner, spiritual intermediary, cult leader or antagonist dealing with powers beyond ordinary understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Museum Curator\u003c\/strong\u003e is ready for archaeological horror, cursed collections and investigations involving artefacts that should never have been removed from their original resting places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn expert in forbidden antiquities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe keeper of a supernatural collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA member of an occult society\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA scholar corrupted by an artefact\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA patron who knows more than he admits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person responsible for opening the sealed exhibit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBad-Ass Priest\u003c\/strong\u003e and colour \u003cstrong\u003eClergy\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration provide religious figures suitable for exorcism, monster hunting, occult conspiracy and supernatural action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be allies, antagonists or representatives of institutions whose intentions are less reassuring than their vestments suggest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMystic Ascension\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMystic Redhead\u003c\/strong\u003e provide more enigmatic material for rituals, visions, supernatural transformation or occult characters whose exact role can be adapted to the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaith, scholarship and magic can all provide answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can also produce significantly more complicated questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE CHILDREN ARE NOT ALL 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bedroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figures need not be villains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be victims, witnesses or the only people capable of seeing the threat clearly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat will not necessarily make them less disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHUMAN MONSTERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every horror requires supernatural powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody with an axe and sufficient determination remains perfectly capable of ruining the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAxe Murderer\u003c\/strong\u003e offers an immediate image for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlasher adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerial-killer investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHome-invasion horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime 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oracle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cursed object\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence found in a collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe focus of a ritual\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething that begins speaking after midnight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth pieces can be used as monsters, props, chapter illustrations or the seeds of complete adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good horror image does more than depict a threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suggests the history that made the threat possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eALIENS IN THE HORROR COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAliens\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration broadens the collection into science-fiction horror, conspiracy and extraterrestrial encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figures might represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlien visitors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvaders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExperimental organisms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterdimensional creatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvivors of a hidden civilisation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeings discovered aboard a derelict spacecraft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason the government has sealed off the surrounding area\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fiction horror works particularly well when the creatures remain only partly understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre they intelligent?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre they hostile?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre they individuals—or extensions of a larger organism?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid they arrive from another planet, or have they been here all along?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration gives them a face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou decide whether the characters live long enough to understand it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT GENERATES ADVENTURES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUseful stock art does more than fill space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt creates questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is ascending in the Mystic Ascension?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho transformed the Modern Demon?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy has the museum curator been collecting shrunken heads?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat created the Sabretooth Werewolf?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho touched the character with infernal power?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the pharaoh still moving?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the Creepy Kid see?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho summoned the Techno-Demon?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened during the Vampiric Embrace?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the scarecrow appear closer every morning?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what its subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something inconvenient in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the resulting trouble to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, investigation or complete campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning bespoke artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the image a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers must generally divide limited funds between writing, editing, layout, printing, promotion and the dangerously unconventional ambition of paying themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate monsters and antagonists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense sections of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent horror atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and sourcebooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopulate bestiaries and character sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate handouts and visual clues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable library for future projects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReplace the remaining boxes labelled \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne strong image can transform a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three distinct subjects can furnish a great many nightmares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e25 FILES, 23 DISTINCT SUBJECTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files representing 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo illustrations are supplied in alternate forms:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern Demon:\u003c\/strong\u003e colour and 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creatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCursed objects and rural horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis distinction means you receive 25 usable image files without falsely presenting alternate versions as completely different pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional use under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and ensure that your intended use, alterations and attribution comply with its requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre. 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Mutants. Werewolves. Living slime. Sinister surgeons. Investigators who have just realised they are no longer alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorror needs more than shadows and bloodstains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt needs something waiting inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 8\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 horror-themed TIFF files representing 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, ready for use by publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from traditional supernatural creatures and modern monsters to human villains, grotesque mutations, atmospheric scenes and images suited to investigative, medical and technological horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the artwork is presented in Brad McDevitt’s distinctive black-and-white style, with colour and greyscale alternatives supplied for selected illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal 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colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenangallen – greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSemi-Nude Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Spinster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSunburnt Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechno Daemon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTentacular Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Morgue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThreatened Investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire Thug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampiress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerecrocodile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerewolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Surgeon – black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant Catman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchool\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you monsters, murderers, victims, investigators, supernatural predators and several scenes suitable for introducing something deeply unpleasant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVAMPIRES WITHOUT THE POLISH\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every vampire is an immaculate aristocrat brooding attractively in a velvet-lined drawing room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome are deformed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome are sunburnt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome are thugs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome appear to have abandoned any remaining pretence of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeformed Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSemi-Nude Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSunburnt Vampire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire Thug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampiress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese illustrations can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGothic horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern supernatural campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster-hunting adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBestiaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaction and antagonist sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse them as separate creatures or as members of a single, varied vampire population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Deformed Vampire might be an ancient predator, failed transformation or creature physically reshaped by hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Vampire Thug can bring supernatural menace into a street-level or criminal setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sunburnt Vampire suggests what happens when immortality encounters insufficient planning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Vampiress and Semi-Nude Vampire offer additional options for projects leaning towards gothic, adult or sensual horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork provides the visual starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe precise creature, character and explanation remain yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGHOSTS, GHOULS AND THE UNQUIET DEAD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGhost Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGrinning Ghoul\u003c\/strong\u003e offer two very different forms of death refusing to remain properly concluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ghost Girl can illustrate:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA haunting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural witness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lost child\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA recurring apparition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe central mystery of an investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spirit tied to a house, object or location\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Grinning Ghoul is considerably less ambiguous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can serve as a corpse-eater, underground predator, undead servant or inhabitant of somewhere the characters should not have entered without substantially more ammunition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ghost may require understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ghoul may require violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe difficulty lies in discovering which sort of scene the characters have entered before choosing their approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMUTANTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes \u003cstrong\u003eMutant Children\u003c\/strong\u003e, a \u003cstrong\u003eMutant Catman\u003c\/strong\u003e, a \u003cstrong\u003eWerecrocodile\u003c\/strong\u003e and a \u003cstrong\u003eWerewolf\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBody horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenetic experiments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural transformations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShapeshifter campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic settings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fiction horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHidden communities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreatures produced by curses, disease or irresponsible research\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mutant Children may be victims, threats or members of a population that has been concealed from the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mutant Catman can represent a transformed human, hybrid creature, experimental subject or species in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Werecrocodile and Werewolf provide recognisable shapeshifter material while leaving the details of their origins and behaviour open to the writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the transformations are inherited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps they spread through infection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps somebody has learned how to manufacture them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll three possibilities create trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMADNESS AND HUMAN MONSTERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every horror needs claws, tentacles or supernatural powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMadman\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Spinster\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eEvil Businessman\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Surgeon\u003c\/strong\u003e offer human or apparently human threats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Madman is supplied in both standard and greyscale versions, allowing the same illustration to fit different layouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlasher scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychological horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedical horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConspiracy games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCults\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern gothic adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVillains whose monstrosity is entirely a matter of choice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Evil Businessman might be a corrupt executive, criminal financier, cult patron or respectable public figure funding something grotesque behind closed doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Surgeon can become an unethical doctor, torturer, experimental researcher or medical professional whose definition of treatment has become alarmingly broad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Spinster might be a neighbour, recluse, occult practitioner, murderer or apparently harmless person at the centre of a much larger mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe filename suggests a mood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork does not dictate the character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSLIME, TENTACLES AND STRANGER THINGS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eLiving Slime\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTentacular Horror\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eTechno Daemon\u003c\/strong\u003e push the collection towards stranger territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Living Slime can be used as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn escaped experiment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn alien organism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural infestation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sewer-dwelling creature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA biological weapon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething growing beneath a hospital, laboratory or school\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tentacular Horror offers a creature for cosmic horror, fantasy, science fiction or any scenario requiring an organism whose anatomy discourages close examination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Techno Daemon can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyber-horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePossessed machinery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemonic technology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult experiments involving computers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCampaigns where the distinction between magic and machinery has broken down\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces are especially useful when a project needs something that does not belong neatly within a familiar category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe unknown is frightening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe partly recognisable is often worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE PENANGALLEN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes colour and greyscale versions of an illustration named \u003cstrong\u003ePenangallen\u003c\/strong\u003e in the supplied files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image can be used for a flying, disembodied or visceral supernatural creature, particularly in adventures drawing upon Southeast Asian horror and folklore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may serve as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA nocturnal predator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA curse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA transformed human\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hidden supernatural threat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe focus of an occult investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA creature stalking an isolated community\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two versions provide additional flexibility for colour and black-and-white publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the supplied filename, rename the creature for your own setting or adapt the image to something entirely new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSCENES OF HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is not limited to portraits and isolated monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Morgue\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThreatened Investigator\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSchool\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHorror Graffiti\u003c\/strong\u003e provide broader scenes and atmospheric material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTHE MORGUE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA morgue can be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA crime scene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe location of an autopsy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beginning of an undead outbreak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA place where evidence has vanished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere a body has been misidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last place anybody saw the night attendant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dead are supposed to remain quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat expectation is the foundation of a great many horror stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTHREATENED INVESTIGATOR\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Threatened Investigator offers an immediate image of danger closing in upon somebody who has discovered too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse it for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetective horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParanormal investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConspiracy scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe moment when research becomes personal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigators frequently begin by looking for monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe successful monsters notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSCHOOL\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe School illustration can support institutional horror, supernatural investigations or stories in which an ordinary educational setting has become dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might accompany:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA haunting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMissing children\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cult operating within an institution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA violent incident\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn outbreak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA conspiracy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething hidden beneath an apparently ordinary building\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork supplies the location and mood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened there remains for you to decide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHORROR GRAFFITI\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorror Graffiti can be used as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chapter heading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn urban-horror image\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA warning left by a victim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cult symbol\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence discovered during an investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sign that somebody has already been here\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraffiti may be vandalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may be a message.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may be the only warning the characters receive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the illustration a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers must divide limited budgets between writing, editing, layout, promotion, printing and the unfashionable ambition of being paid for their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate monsters and villains\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense pages of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent horror atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and sourcebooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate investigative handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopulate bestiaries and antagonist sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable library for future projects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReplace those accusing boxes marked \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse one illustration to complete a short scenario or draw upon the full collection across a larger book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good picture fills a space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA better picture suggests what ought to happen next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e25 FILES, 23 SUBJECTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files representing 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo subjects are supplied in alternate versions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMadman:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenangallen:\u003c\/strong\u003e colour and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe remaining files are distinct illustrations covering:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampires\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGhosts and ghouls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerecreatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuman villains\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedical horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigative scenes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechnological and tentacular monsters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAtmospheric locations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis distinction means the collection contains 25 usable files, rather than claiming 25 entirely different subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional use under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and ensure that your intended use, alterations and attribution comply with its requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one 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It includes character portraits, action scenes, atmospheric locations and grisly discoveries suitable for anything from a short modern adventure to an entire campaign of conspiracy, violence and extremely suspicious nightlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 25 supplied illustrations are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBond Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Mummy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSexy Street Samurai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Fantasy Tactical-Team Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMalevolent Modern Temptress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmerindian Modern Shaman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalled-Up Body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBloody Shakespeare Bust\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrisoners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeductive Blonde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy 4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorpse on Table\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGun Backfire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDumpster Discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKneeling Nude\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterrogation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNSFW Gang Member\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDire Wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrey Surgeon – colourised\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilm Noir Nightclub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMad Scientist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad-News Biker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNightclub Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyberpunk Street Scene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you investigators, fighters, criminals, occult figures, victims, corpses, monsters, locations and several people who ought to be questioned before they are allowed to leave the building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMODERN CHARACTERS WITH PERSONALITY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary role-playing games require more than anonymous figures wearing business suits and holding mobile phones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey need people with attitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBond Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSexy Street Samurai\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eModern Fantasy Tactical-Team Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTough Guys\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBad-News Biker\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eNSFW Gang Member\u003c\/strong\u003e offer characterful figures for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEspionage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyberpunk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary and paramilitary games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreet-level campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer-character portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllies, rivals and professional troublemakers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bond Girl might be an agent, adventurer, social infiltrator or dangerous operator whose appearance encourages people to underestimate her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Street Samurai and Tactical-Team Girl can serve as mercenaries, bodyguards, corporate enforcers or characters who have already concluded that subtlety is unlikely to survive the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two Tough Guys provide adaptable portraits for criminals, investigators, veterans, hired muscle or anyone else who has learned to communicate through meaningful silence and occasional violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the figures exactly as their filenames suggest—or ignore the filenames entirely and make them your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCRIME SCENES AND GRISLY DISCOVERIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern investigations need evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately for the people involved, that evidence is frequently a body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalled-Up Body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorpse on Table\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDumpster Discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterrogation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrisoners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGun 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entire investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho put it there?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow long has it been hidden?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy was the wall recently disturbed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the corpse appear to be wearing something manufactured only last year?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dumpster Discovery provides another immediate opening. Somebody has found something unpleasant among the rubbish, and the player characters are about to become involved whether they possess any relevant qualifications or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Corpse on Table might belong in a morgue, laboratory, basement or improvised operating theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Interrogation scene can represent police procedure, criminal questioning or the exact moment when somebody’s carefully rehearsed story collapses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good crime-scene image does not merely decorate the adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt tells the players that something has happened—and invites them to discover how much worse the truth will be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMAD SCIENCE AND MEDICAL HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMad Scientist\u003c\/strong\u003e and colourised \u003cstrong\u003eGrey Surgeon\u003c\/strong\u003e provide ready-made figures for scientific conspiracy, medical horror, 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projects repeatedly described as misunderstood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Grey Surgeon could be an alien doctor, mutant specialist, underground body-modifier or something merely impersonating a member of the medical profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePair either figure with the Corpse on Table, Modern Mummy or prisoners to suggest an entire programme of experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is being created?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is funding the work?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy have the test subjects begun disappearing?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat escaped from the laboratory?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience may be neutral.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScientists remain people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is where the trouble begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHORROR IN THE MODERN WORLD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection crosses naturally into contemporary horror and urban fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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Street Samurai\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eModern Fantasy Tactical-Team Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eNSFW Gang Member\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGrey Surgeon\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eCyberpunk Street Scene\u003c\/strong\u003e make the collection useful for cyberpunk and near-future projects as well as present-day material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cyberpunk Street Scene can establish:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dangerous neighbourhood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA corporate district\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA criminal marketplace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA night-time encounter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA futuristic city campaign\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chapter devoted to street 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used as unusual combatants, enhanced humans, futuristic characters or whatever else best suits the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork does not come with rules, setting information or an imposed explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it adaptable across modern, near-future and science-fiction games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCHARACTERS FOR YOUR CAMPAIGN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes several portraits and character-focused images suitable for player characters, non-player characters and incidental figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScarred Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePunk Psychic Investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerrified Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMental Patient\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfrican Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommando\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDerelict\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single portrait can provide the spark for a complete character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho scarred the woman?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the psychic investigator perceive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat frightened the man?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the commando involved?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the derelict know that everyone else has overlooked?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images can illustrate characters already written or inspire new ones when a project requires another suspect, witness, ally or antagonist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are particularly useful when the players become fascinated by somebody the Games Master invented thirty seconds earlier and now expect to possess a complete history, motivation and 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reconsider entering the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCRIME, VIOLENCE AND BAD COMPANY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern games need dangerous people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot necessarily supervillains, alien warlords or immortal sorcerers—just ordinary human beings with weapons, motives and an unfortunate willingness to use both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection’s \u003cstrong\u003eDrifter\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eScarred Mercenary\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTough Biker Chica\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTrucker in Bar\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAxe Murderer\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMeat Cleaver\u003c\/strong\u003e artwork can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercenary campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoad adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvival horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminal investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlasher scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEspionage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern pulp adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Drifter might be a wanderer, fugitive, veteran or stranger who knows more about the local trouble than he initially admits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Scarred Mercenary can serve as hired muscle, military contractor, bodyguard or survivor of an operation nobody officially acknowledges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass is supplied in standard and greyscale forms, giving you an adaptable figure for action, crime, cyberpunk or street-level gaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tough Biker Chica might be a gang member, courier, hunter, mechanic or entirely independent operator who has learned never to rely upon somebody else for protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Trucker in Bar provides an immediately useful supporting character: a traveller, freight driver, witness, smuggler or source of rumours encountered in a roadside establishment where everyone is pretending not to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven the more explicitly threatening images remain adaptable. An Axe Murderer may be precisely what the title suggests—or a frightened survivor who has grabbed the nearest available weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContext changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsually just before the initiative roll.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePRIESTS WITH PRACTICAL SKILLS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern horror and occult games often involve religious organisations confronting problems considerably more immediate than declining attendance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcore Priest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad-Ass Priest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClergy in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures can represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExorcists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitant clergy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult investigators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMembers of secret religious orders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHunters of supernatural creatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChaplains attached to military or intelligence units\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePriests protecting communities from hidden threats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFanatics whose methods have become more dangerous than their enemies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hardcore Priest and Bad-Ass Priest suggest religious characters prepared to take direct action when prayer alone has failed to produce satisfactory results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be allies, player characters, rivals or members of an organisation whose theology includes a surprisingly extensive weapons budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour Clergy illustration provides another option for religious characters, supernatural factions or stories involving belief, authority and the uncomfortable possibility that somebody’s prophecies are coming true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaith can provide courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can also provide certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly one of those things is reliably helpful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePSYCHICS, SHAMANS AND THE OCCULT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePunk Psychic Investigator\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Shaman\u003c\/strong\u003e offer strong material for paranormal investigations, urban fantasy and contemporary occult campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Punk Psychic Investigator might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA medium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA clairvoyant detective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reluctant supernatural consultant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA psychic bounty hunter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA survivor of occult experimentation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA player character\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only witness able to perceive what really happened\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic characters occupy an awkward position in investigative games. They can see what others cannot—but what they perceive may be incomplete, symbolic or actively misleading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dead may provide answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey rarely provide them in a convenient order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Shaman can serve as a spiritual practitioner, cult leader, occult antagonist or intermediary between the ordinary world and powers that do not recognise human law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might possess genuine wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might be exploiting the desperate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might be doing both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images suit stories involving:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpirit communication\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted locations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecret traditions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural crimes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagical communities hidden within modern society\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient powers adapting to contemporary life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern world has not eliminated magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has merely given the magician access to public transport and online banking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE SINISTER MUSEUM CURATOR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuseums are full of things taken from tombs, ruins, battlefields and cultures whose warnings were translated, catalogued and promptly ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Museum Curator\u003c\/strong\u003e is therefore an extremely practical addition to any modern mystery, occult adventure or pulp campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe curator might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn expert in forbidden antiquities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe custodian of a dangerous collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA member of an occult conspiracy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA thief replacing genuine artefacts with replicas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA scholar transformed by prolonged exposure to something unnatural\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA patron hiring the characters for a recovery operation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only person who knows why a particular exhibit must never be opened\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who opened it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuseums make excellent adventure locations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey contain valuable objects, obscure knowledge, restricted areas, security systems and enough historical baggage to ensure that almost any supernatural disaster can be made somebody else’s fault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe curator may help the characters identify an artefact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe may try to purchase it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe may insist it was never removed from its case—even while something wearing his face walks through the locked galleries after midnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSPIES, BUSINESSMEN AND RESPECTABLE VILLAINS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eEspionage Guy\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eEvil Businessman\u003c\/strong\u003e provide material for conspiracies, intelligence operations, corporate thrillers and campaigns where the most dangerous characters possess excellent tailoring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Espionage Guy might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA field agent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intelligence handler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA double agent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA corporate operative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA government assassin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA retired spy dragged back into service\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA source whose information is accurate but incomplete\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody carrying several passports and no convincing explanation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Evil Businessman may represent a corrupt executive, political donor, criminal financier, cult sponsor or entrepreneur whose commercial empire depends upon activities absent from the annual report.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe may never carry a weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe employs people for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern villains frequently possess legal departments, public-relations teams and enough institutional respectability to make accusing them of supernatural conspiracy seem unreasonable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is how they like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse these figures for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePolitical conspiracy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCovert operations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInternational thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganised crime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigative horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRival intelligence agencies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecret programmes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMissions where nobody has been told the complete objective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA street thug threatens the characters with a gun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA businessman threatens their homes, employment, reputation and legal existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCivilisation has provided villainy with more sophisticated tools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMILITARY HARDWARE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eModern Tank\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePanzer\u003c\/strong\u003e provide vehicle artwork for military adventures, historical-modern crossover material, alternate history and campaigns involving heavy armour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can illustrate:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary sourcebooks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBattlefield encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArmoured units\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvasions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercenary operations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate-history campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWartime flashbacks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGovernment responses to supernatural threats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSituations in which negotiations have failed comprehensively\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Modern Tank suits contemporary warfare, near-future conflict and military scenarios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Panzer can support historical material, wartime horror, alternate history or stories involving machinery surviving long past the conflict for which it was built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tank changes the nature of an encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not merely another opponent with more hit points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt controls movement, destroys cover and forces characters to solve problems through planning, specialised equipment or an extremely convincing explanation of why they are authorised to be there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE HAUNTED HOUSE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eHaunted House\u003c\/strong\u003e provides an atmospheric location for modern horror, supernatural investigation and gothic material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn abandoned family home\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scene of an unresolved murder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA building trapped in a repeating event\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe headquarters of a cult\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA property nobody can sell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA house appearing in several cities at once\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA place whose former occupants have not left\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn entirely normal house containing one deeply abnormal room\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted houses remain effective because they corrupt somewhere that should be safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dungeon is expected to contain danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA home is supposed to keep it outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the image as a chapter opening, adventure location or visual handout shown to players when they first arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen ask the important questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy are the windows dark?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho maintains the grounds?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the upper floor contain one more window than the interior contains rooms?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd why does somebody appear to be standing behind the glass?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE PANTHER\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePanther\u003c\/strong\u003e can be used as an ordinary animal, supernatural predator, shapeshifter, guardian or experimental creature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt might belong in:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilderness adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban-fantasy campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime stories involving exotic animals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult rituals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic environments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHidden supernatural communities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZoos, private collections or research facilities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStories where something large and silent is stalking the characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it is an escaped animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it is hunting a particular person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it becomes human during daylight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the authorities have already killed three ordinary animals while the real creature continues moving through the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA predator does not require human intelligence to be frightening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuman intelligence merely allows it to hold a grudge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eALIENS AMONG US\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAliens\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration opens the collection to science fiction, conspiracy and paranormal gaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figures could be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExtraterrestrial visitors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExperimental beings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterdimensional entities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvivors of a hidden civilisation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence concealed by a government agency\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParticipants in a first-contact scenario\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreatures who have been living among humanity for generations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern and science-fiction gaming overlap naturally whenever the strange arrives in an otherwise recognisable world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe player characters might be investigators following reports of unusual lights, agents attempting to contain evidence or ordinary people who have discovered that their neighbours are not merely eccentric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe aliens may be invaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be refugees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be waiting for humanity to become interesting enough to contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat could take some time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBEAUTY, SIRENS AND GOTHIC STYLE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes \u003cstrong\u003eGoth Pearls\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSultry Siren\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eWistful Beauty\u003c\/strong\u003e, providing more atmospheric and character-focused female illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoth Pearls is supplied in both black-and-white and colour versions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images can represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSocialites\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampires\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccultists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFemme fatales\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural beings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWitnesses or suspects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImportant supporting characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople whose appearance encourages dangerous assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sultry Siren may be literally supernatural or simply dangerously persuasive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Wistful Beauty might illustrate grief, memory, longing or a quiet moment within a darker story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoth Pearls can suit modern gothic, vampire fiction, urban fantasy or any project requiring a striking alternative character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every illustration needs to depict action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMood matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA portrait can establish the emotional direction of an entire scene before the first line of dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal commissions remain the best way to obtain precisely the artwork a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers generally have to divide limited funds between writing, editing, layout, printing, promotion and the radical aspiration that the creator should eventually be paid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters, vehicles and locations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense sections of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish the tone of a modern setting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and smaller supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate player handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopulate non-player-character sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable art library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReplace the boxes labelled \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne strong image can transform a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three distinct subjects can provide a substantial supporting cast for an entire campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT CREATES STORIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood stock art does more than occupy an empty space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt asks questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the Drifter passing through town?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho scarred the mercenary?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the psychic investigator see?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho owns the haunted house?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the museum curator smiling?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the Evil Businessman want?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is the Espionage Guy following?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy are armed priests involved?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere is the tank going?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat are the aliens waiting for?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what its subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something inconvenient in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the resulting trouble to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, investigation or complete campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND VARIANTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preview shows \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files representing 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo pieces are supplied in alternate forms:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGoth Pearls:\u003c\/strong\u003e black-and-white and colour versions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass:\u003c\/strong\u003e standard and greyscale versions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe remaining files are distinct illustrations covering modern characters, criminal figures, occult subjects, clergy, vehicles, locations and creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional use under the terms of the attached 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Modern material naturally overlaps with horror, science fiction, military gaming and urban fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can explore the complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e or browse the other \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/all\/modern\"\u003emodern stock-art collections\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spy is watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe priest is armed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house is occupied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour manuscript still needs pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeal with the problem you can solve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29205718892608,"sku":"BMA027","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/modern3.PNG?v=1561025109"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-modern-collection-4","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Modern Collection 4","description":"\u003ch1\u003eORDINARY PEOPLE. EXTRAORDINARY TROUBLE.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminals. Investigators. Soldiers. Survivors. Vampires. Mutants. 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be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFatale in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFatale in greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlowing Hair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGruesome Find\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHospital Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary Image\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant Woman in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant Woman in greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePensive Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePolice in 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Surgeon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTen Punks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAristocrat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad-Ass-Looking Guys\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you criminals, authority figures, survivors, social elites, supernatural predators, atmospheric scenes and several people who should not be allowed near the evidence locker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCRIME IN THE STREETS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains a useful assortment of thugs, punks and intimidating groups for modern crime, action and investigation games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eThug\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThug in an Alley\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThugs Arguing\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTen Punks\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBad-Ass-Looking Guys\u003c\/strong\u003e can represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreet gangs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganised criminals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHired muscle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViolent witnesses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecurity personnel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercenaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminal contacts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuspects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople guarding a door they insist leads nowhere interesting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe welcoming committee outside a particularly disreputable nightclub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures can be used as minor encounters, recurring adversaries or the visible edge of a much larger organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pair of thugs arguing might be an opportunity to gather information.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe man in the alley may be waiting for a victim—or hiding from somebody worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gang may control a neighbourhood, protect it or regard the distinction as unnecessarily academic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every criminal needs a complete biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the Games Master simply needs somebody dangerous-looking to occupy an alley, deliver a threat or explain why the investigators should stop asking questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINVESTIGATION AND THE LAW\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePolice\u003c\/strong\u003e illustration and several of the collection’s contemporary characters can support crime, mystery, procedural and conspiracy games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse them 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truth?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho has been bribed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is frightened?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho knows what happened but refuses to explain why they were there?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same image can represent an ally in one game and an obstacle in another. A police officer may provide resources and authority—or insist that the player characters put down their weapons and explain the bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is especially useful in horror and urban-fantasy campaigns, where official investigators may be struggling to apply ordinary procedures to events that do not respect ordinary reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGRUESOME DISCOVERIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGruesome Find\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Morgue\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHospital Arts\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Surgeon\u003c\/strong\u003e provide material for crime scenes, medical horror, investigations and situations in which somebody has been treating professional ethics as an optional extra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese illustrations can accompany:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurder investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAutopsies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllegal experiments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHospital encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedical conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBody horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerial-killer scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrgan trafficking\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural diseases\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlaces where the smell arrives before the explanation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Morgue may be an ordinary workplace until one of the bodies moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Surgeon might be a criminal doctor, deranged researcher, cultist or entirely legitimate specialist whose methods are nevertheless causing concern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHospital Arts can be used for scenes involving treatment, injury, institutional horror or the consequences of something that has gone badly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGruesome Find offers a natural opening for an investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone has discovered something dreadful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe immediate question is what.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more important question is whether it has noticed them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMUTANTS, VAMPIRES AND MODERN MONSTERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough this is a modern collection, several illustrations cross naturally into horror, urban fantasy and science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant Woman in colour and greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire and Victim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire Thug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScary Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrimitive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMutant Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e can represent a genetic experiment, supernatural transformation, altered human, post-apocalyptic survivor or member of a hidden population living alongside ordinary society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVampire Thug\u003c\/strong\u003e brings the supernatural down from the gothic castle and into the street. He might be an enforcer, gang member, bodyguard or predator who has discovered that modern criminal organisations provide both protection and a steady supply of victims.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVampire and Victim\u003c\/strong\u003e offers an immediate scene of supernatural danger, predation or seduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePrimitive\u003c\/strong\u003e figure could be a survivor, cultist, isolated human, transformed character or someone whose appearance conceals a rather more complicated history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eScary Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e may be human, supernatural or something inconveniently between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse these pieces in:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban-fantasy games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVampire campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic settings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParanormal investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHidden-world games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fiction thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdventures in which the authorities insist monsters do not exist despite mounting evidence to the contrary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern world provides excellent cover for monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost people are trained to ignore anything strange and continue walking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWOMEN OF MYSTERY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes several female figures with different moods and possible roles, including \u003cstrong\u003eFatale\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFlowing Hair\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePensive Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMutant Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eScary Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can become:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSocialites\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvivors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuspects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural beings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFemme-fatale antagonists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople whose apparent vulnerability is encouraging precisely the wrong assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eFatale\u003c\/strong\u003e is supplied in both colour and greyscale, giving publishers greater flexibility for different layouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA femme fatale need not be a villain. She may be an agent, manipulator, survivor or person who has learned that others consistently underestimate her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePensive Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e can illustrate reflection, grief, uncertainty or a moment of calm before matters become considerably worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlowing Hair\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a more atmospheric image suitable for dreams, supernatural influence, transformation or a character introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art is most useful when it suggests possibilities without dictating a single interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the image that suits your character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChange the character whenever a better idea occurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE ARISTOCRAT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAristocrat\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a useful figure for campaigns involving wealth, inherited power, political influence or people who regard ordinary laws as a service intended for others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn old-money patron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA politician\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wealthy suspect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA corporate executive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cult leader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural elder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collector of dangerous artefacts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe owner of the mansion where everything went wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone who has never personally killed anybody because he employs staff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern games often need powerful figures who do not look like street criminals but remain considerably more dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aristocrat can provide money, influence and access.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe can also provide enemies, obligations and the uncomfortable discovery that the player characters have been hired to solve a problem he created.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMILITARY OPERATIONS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMilitary Image\u003c\/strong\u003e can support modern warfare, espionage, counter-terrorism, survival and conspiracy games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse it for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoldiers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial operations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGovernment forces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercenaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrivate military companies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecurity teams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRescue missions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOperations against supernatural threats\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGroups sent to contain an incident after every sensible option has failed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary characters bring training, equipment and official authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey also bring chains of command, mission objectives and superiors who may know far more than they are prepared to reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the soldiers are rescuers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps they are occupying the area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps they have been ordered to destroy the evidence and regard the player characters as part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINTO THE COLD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinter Trek\u003c\/strong\u003e provides an atmospheric illustration for journeys through snow, isolation and hostile conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can accompany:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilderness survival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMountain expeditions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArctic research\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlight from pursuit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisaster scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemote military operations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic journeys\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpeditions to abandoned facilities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdventures in which shelter and warmth matter as much as ammunition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe travellers may be heading towards safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be leaving it behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figures in the distance may be companions, pursuers or something that has been following their trail since nightfall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single environmental image can establish the tone of an entire chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCold makes every problem worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsolation prevents anyone else from solving it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE RUINS OF ATLANTIS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Ruins of Atlantis\u003c\/strong\u003e brings an archaeological, historical or fantastic element to the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderwater discoveries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLost civilisations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchaeological expeditions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fiction discoveries beneath the sea\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence that accepted history is almost entirely wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ruins may be genuinely Atlantean, a hoax, an alien installation or something older than humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe people exploring them may be scientists, treasure hunters, military divers or cultists returning to a sacred place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the image to introduce a location, chapter or mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen decide what the explorers have awakened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMODERN ART FOR MANY GENRES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe breadth of the collection makes it useful across several different kinds of game and publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEspionage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePolice procedurals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConspiracy thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent gaming magazines and ’zines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction and digital publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe thugs and police suit crime games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe morgue and surgeon suit horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vampires and mutant suit urban fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe military and winter material suit action and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ruins suggest archaeology, pulp adventure or occult conspiracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the whole collection together or take the individual pieces wherever they prove useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stock-art collection is a toolbox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody expects every tool to be used upon the same unfortunate machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning original artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the image a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers generally have to divide limited funds between writing, editing, layout, printing, promotion and the unreasonable ambition of paying themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters and encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense sections of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and smaller supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate investigative handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopulate supporting-character sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable art library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemove the last boxes marked \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne strong illustration can transform a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three distinct subjects can populate an entire campaign’s worth of trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT CREATES STORIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUseful stock art does more than fill space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt asks questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat was found at the crime scene?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the surgeon smiling?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is the woman in the morgue?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat are the thugs arguing about?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is the vampire’s victim?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy has the mutant been hiding?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat lies beneath the Ruins of Atlantis?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho sent the military team?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere are the travellers going through the snow?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the aristocrat want the matter kept quiet?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what its subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut something inconvenient in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the resulting trouble to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, investigation or complete campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND VARIANTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preview shows \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files representing 23 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo subjects are supplied in both colour and greyscale:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFatale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe remaining files are distinct illustrations covering contemporary characters, criminals, investigators, horror scenes, supernatural figures and atmospheric locations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional use under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and ensure that your intended use, alterations and attribution comply with its requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre. 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TIFF format\u003c\/strong\u003e for publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters who need contemporary characters without commissioning every image separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is particularly useful for modern role-playing games, crime, espionage, conspiracy, investigation, action, horror and any setting in which apparently ordinary people are making extremely poor decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 25 supplied illustrations depict:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBiker Chick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorrupt Private Investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry Bumpkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Shooting Sideways\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInnocent Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Couple\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePolice Interrogation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRednecks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScary Suit Guy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Business Guy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeauty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Age Guru\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFemale Police Detective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGirl at a Snowy Window\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYakuza\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeadshot 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeadshot 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeadshot 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeadshot 4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigator 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigator 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigator 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSheriff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you investigators, criminals, witnesses, authority figures, civilians, eccentrics and several people whose alibis deserve closer 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protection—or have become extremely skilled at appearing harmless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Old Couple may be witnesses, neighbours or the only people who remember what happened in the house thirty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Survivor can carry the scars of an accident, attack, disaster or supernatural encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Girl at the Snowy Window might be isolated, watched or quietly observing something outside that nobody else can see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA campaign world becomes more convincing when its population consists of more than professional adventurers and disposable attackers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the frightened witness becomes the most important person in the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the harmless old couple are responsible for everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eECCENTRICS AND QUESTIONABLE EXPERTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eNew Age Guru\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a ready-made figure for modern occult, conspiracy, satire and paranormal gaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA harmless eccentric\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fraudulent spiritual leader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA genuine psychic with terrible presentation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe founder of a dangerous cult\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn occult researcher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA media personality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA conspiracy theorist who has accidentally discovered the truth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone selling enlightenment through a twelve-part subscription programme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern campaigns often need experts whose reliability remains uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe guru may possess exactly the information the characters need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, extracting it may require attending a retreat, purchasing several books and listening to a long explanation involving vibrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHEADSHOTS AND FLEXIBLE CHARACTERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe four numbered \u003cstrong\u003eHeadshots\u003c\/strong\u003e provide adaptable character portraits without overly specific narrative roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuspects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGovernment officials\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWitnesses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupporting characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer-character portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecurity personnel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaces in case files\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople introduced five minutes before something terrible happens to them\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir flexibility makes them particularly useful for Games Masters who need an image for a character created during play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe players will inevitably become obsessed with somebody who originally existed only to provide directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive that person a face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePretend they were important all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMODERN ACTION AND ESPIONAGE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral pieces can support action-heavy modern games involving agents, criminals, vigilantes and people holding firearms in ways unlikely to appear in approved training manuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuy Shooting Sideways\u003c\/strong\u003e offers an immediate image for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGunfights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminal encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAction thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban combat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBodyguards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAssassins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGang warfare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacters whose firearm technique has been learned entirely from cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe police, investigators, bikers, organised criminals and sinister men can easily populate an espionage or action campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey might be members of rival agencies, criminal factions or competing groups attempting to secure the same person, object or piece of information.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd weapons, secrets and incompatible objectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork will take care of the faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFROM CRIME TO MODERN HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough this is a modern collection rather than a dedicated horror pack, many of the illustrations are well suited to contemporary horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Survivor may be the only person to escape an earlier attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Innocent Girl may be haunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Old Couple may live beside an abandoned property nobody else remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe police detective may be investigating crimes that cannot be explained without destroying her career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Girl at the Snowy Window may be watching something approach through the storm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sinister Business Guy may be entirely human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat may make him worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the collection for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlasher scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConspiracy horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychological thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime-horror crossovers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCults and occult organisations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern gothic stories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGames where the authorities are part of the problem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster is useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA human being capable of choosing monstrosity is often more interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning bespoke artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the illustration a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers must generally divide limited funds between writing, editing, layout, promotion, printing and the dangerous fantasy of paying themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters and encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense sections of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish the tone of a modern setting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and smaller supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate case files and player handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopulate supporting-character sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable library for future projects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReplace every remaining box labelled \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne strong portrait can make a minor character memorable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five distinct illustrations can populate an entire neighbourhood of trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT CREATES STORIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe best stock art does more than fill empty space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt asks questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the private investigator corrupt?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is being interrogated?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat did the Survivor survive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is standing outside the snowy window?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the businessman smiling?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do the Old Couple remember?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho hired the Yakuza?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the Innocent Girl need protection?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat has frightened the man in the suit?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho taught that fellow to hold a gun like that?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what the subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something inconvenient in their way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the resulting trouble to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, mystery or complete campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND CONTENTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preview shows \u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct black-and-white TIFF illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e, with no duplicated colour or greyscale versions apparent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigators and police\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminals and organised-crime figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBusinessmen and sinister professionals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCivilians and potential witnesses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacter headshots\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn interrogation scene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRural and urban personalities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAction-oriented figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterial suitable for crime, espionage and horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis provides a broad supporting cast rather than several versions of the same small number of images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional use under the 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Modern material naturally overlaps with horror, science fiction, urban fantasy and historical gaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can explore the complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e or browse other \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/all\/modern\"\u003emodern stock-art collections\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe witness has disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe detective is compromised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe businessman denies everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour manuscript still needs pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of these problems is easily solved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29205882798144,"sku":"BMA029","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/modern5.PNG?v=1561025528"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-scifi-1","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - SciFi 1","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTHE FUTURE HAS GUNS, MONSTERS AND QUESTIONABLE FASHION\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCybernetic warriors. Alien femme fatales. Battle mecha. Mutants. Astronauts. Giant reptiles. Psychotic medical personnel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity has travelled into space, rebuilt itself with machinery and encountered life beyond Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of this appears to have improved our judgement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – SciFi 1\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct science-fiction illustrations in TIFF format\u003c\/strong\u003e for publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters who need strong, characterful artwork without commissioning every piece individually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from cyberpunk street characters and futuristic warriors to aliens, astronauts, spaceships, mecha and enormous monsters. It is suitable for cyberpunk, space opera, science-fantasy, post-apocalyptic adventure, futuristic crime, pulp science fiction and games in which technology has advanced considerably faster than human wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 25 supplied illustrations are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBond Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutilant in a Hoodie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSexy Street Samurai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Fantasy Tactical-Team Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyberpunk Medusa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechno Ninja\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough Guy 4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree-Way Alien\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSexy Alien Babe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlien Femme Fatale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCowboy Mecha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClunky Old Mecha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouble Guns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnightly Mecha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGiant Dinosaur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-Apocalypse Gunfighter Babe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAstronaut in Space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster Gator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFemale Astronaut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychotic Cyber Nurse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNSFW Gang Member\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMale Astronaut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExtreme Cyberpunk Pierced Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpaceship in Orbit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you warriors, criminals, mutants, aliens, astronauts, machines and monsters suitable for illustrating anything from a single encounter to an entire science-fiction campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCYBERPUNK CHARACTERS WITH ATTITUDE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains a strong selection of characters for cyberpunk, dystopian and futuristic urban settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSexy Street Samurai\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTechno Ninja\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eExtreme Cyberpunk Pierced Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eCyberpunk Medusa\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eNSFW Gang Member\u003c\/strong\u003e can populate neon-lit streets, corporate arcologies, underground clubs and districts where personal augmentation is cheaper than reliable housing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey might serve as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer-character portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate assassins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreet mercenaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGang members\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBounty 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\u003cstrong\u003eTough Guy\u003c\/strong\u003e illustrations, \u003cstrong\u003eDouble Guns\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eModern Fantasy Tactical-Team Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePost-Apocalypse Gunfighter Babe\u003c\/strong\u003e provide versatile human characters for espionage, action, crime and survival games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey can become:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecret agents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBodyguards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercenaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaw-enforcement officers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResistance fighters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWasteland survivors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate 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promises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eALIENS, MUTANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes several extraterrestrial and altered characters:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutilant in a Hoodie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree-Way Alien\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSexy Alien Babe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlien Femme Fatale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyberpunk Medusa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures can represent genuine alien species, genetically altered humans, mutants, artificial organisms or visitors from cultures with very different ideas about anatomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMutilant in a Hoodie\u003c\/strong\u003e can serve as an outcast, survivor, altered street-dweller or escaped experimental subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eThree-Way Alien\u003c\/strong\u003e offers something stranger and less immediately classifiable—ideal for first-contact encounters, alien marketplaces or species whose biology raises questions nobody feels comfortable asking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSexy Alien Babe\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eAlien Femme Fatale\u003c\/strong\u003e suit pulp science fiction, space opera and adult-oriented projects where alien characters are intended to be attractive, dangerous or both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cyberpunk Medusa might be a mutant, engineered assassin or modern interpretation of myth created through biotechnology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity may divide the galaxy into people and monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe galaxy is unlikely to respect the distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMECHA FOR EVERY OCCASION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection 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future. It could belong to a feudal stellar empire, noble warrior order or science-fantasy civilisation whose armoured knights stand several storeys tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse them for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMecha pilots and player characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrontier defence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate warfare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArena combat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoble houses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSalvage operations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient war machines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMachinery believed obsolete until it begins moving again\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe future will contain advanced technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt will also contain people who paint horses, skulls and family crests on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eASTRONAUTS AND THE VOID\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree astronaut illustrations and a \u003cstrong\u003eSpaceship in Orbit\u003c\/strong\u003e provide material for exploration, survival and adventure beyond Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAstronaut in Space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFemale Astronaut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMale Astronaut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpaceship in Orbit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese illustrations can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpace-exploration games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrbital missions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst-contact scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpace-station adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlanetary expeditions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRescue operations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilitary science fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDerelict-spacecraft horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCampaigns set aboard a single vessel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe astronauts may be explorers, soldiers, engineers, scientists or unfortunate individuals discovering that the distress beacon was activated for an excellent reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spaceship can become a player vessel, military craft, explorer ship or mysterious object discovered in orbit around a supposedly uninhabited world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpace may be empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fuel tanks are also empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly one of these facts represents an immediate emergency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGIANT MONSTERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGiant Dinosaur\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMonster Gator\u003c\/strong\u003e provide enormous biological threats for science fiction, post-apocalyptic adventure and science-fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurviving prehistoric creatures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutants produced by radiation or pollution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlien animals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducts of genetic engineering\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBiological weapons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonsters awakened beneath a ruined city\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWildlife native to a hostile colony world\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason the settlement’s outer wall is unusually tall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Giant Dinosaur suits lost worlds, devastated futures and planetary expeditions where the local ecosystem regards armoured vehicles as a convenient source of calcium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Monster Gator can emerge from flooded ruins, chemical swamps, sewer systems or abandoned research facilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese creatures do not require elaborate motives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey require territory, appetite and enough armour to make the characters reconsider their equipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE PSYCHOTIC CYBER NURSE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedical technology promises longer lives, replacement organs and relief from suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePsychotic Cyber Nurse\u003c\/strong\u003e demonstrates that the person operating the equipment remains an important consideration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA malfunctioning medical android\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cybernetically enhanced torturer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sole surviving member of a hospital staff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cultist obsessed with bodily improvement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA battlefield medic whose programming has degraded\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA corporate interrogator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe keeper of an illegal augmentation clinic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone who insists the procedure is completely painless\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustration is ideal for cyberpunk horror, medical science fiction, dystopian settings and scenarios in which the characters wake upon operating tables with several unfamiliar consent forms awaiting signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe facility was designed to heal people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody said it could not improve them at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSCIENCE FICTION WITH AN ADULT EDGE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral pieces in the collection feature revealing, sexualised or explicitly adult-oriented characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese make the collection particularly useful for publishers producing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdult science fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMature cyberpunk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulp space opera\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTransgressive gaming material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErotic science-fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGames centred on nightlife, vice and criminal subcultures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProjects that do not feel obliged to pretend sexuality vanished when humanity invented faster-than-light travel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe variety of character types means the collection can support both mainstream and adult-oriented projects, depending upon which illustrations you choose to use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelect the pieces that suit the tone and audience of your publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is a toolbox, not a compulsory checklist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT GENERATES ADVENTURES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most useful stock artwork does more than occupy an empty rectangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt creates questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the astronaut alone?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho built the Knightly Mecha?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened to the Mutilant?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho employs the Techno Ninja?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the Cyber Nurse smiling?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the Monster Gator guarding?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is the Alien Femme Fatale attempting to deceive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy has the ancient mecha started moving?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the spaceship doing in orbit?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow did the dinosaur get aboard the station?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what the subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something inconvenient between them and their goal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the resulting disaster to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, scenario or entire campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning original artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the image a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers must generally divide limited funds between writing, editing, layout, promotion, printing and the dangerously radical ambition of paying themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art offers a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters, creatures and vehicles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense pages of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and smaller supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd impact to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopulate character and enemy sections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduce player handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable art library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReplace every box labelled \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne strong image can transform a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five distinct illustrations can populate a considerable portion of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND CONTENTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preview shows \u003cstrong\u003e25 distinct TIFF files\u003c\/strong\u003e, with no duplicate colour or greyscale variants apparent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuman and alien characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyberpunk warriors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdult-oriented figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAstronauts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree varieties of mecha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo giant monsters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spaceship\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic and action characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fiction horror material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis provides a varied selection rather than several versions of the same handful of images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional use under the 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Cyber-samurai. Alien invaders. Killer mannequins. Retro robots. Post-apocalyptic maniacs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechnology was supposed to improve the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApparently, nobody specified which humans—or what sort of condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – SciFi 2\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 science-fiction TIFF files representing 20 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e for publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters who need strong, characterful artwork without commissioning every illustration individually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges across cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic adventure, alien invasion, weird science, psychic investigation, urban horror and retrofuturism. 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Somebody has survived the end of the world and used the experience as an opportunity for personal development in entirely the wrong direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bad-News Biker might be a raider, courier, mercenary or nomadic survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Scarred Woman could be a veteran, fugitive, hardened leader or somebody carrying visible evidence of what the world has become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen civilisation collapses, people do not stop wanting power, security or revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey merely cease pretending the paperwork matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eATMOSPHERE, HEADERS AND SUPPORTING ART\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every page requires another character portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSkulls\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eArt and Robotics\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Trade Dress\u003c\/strong\u003e and other non-character pieces can 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decision worth investigating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArt and Robotics can accompany discussions of artificial intelligence, creativity, machine consciousness or the relationship between technology and human culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy Trade Dress may be particularly useful for projects blending fantasy and science fiction, or as a decorative element within a science-fantasy publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes an illustration explains the material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes it simply makes a page look less like an appliance warranty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth uses are valid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSTOCK ART THAT CREATES STORIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe best stock art does more than occupy an empty space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt gives the writer ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy has the Grey Surgeon come to Earth?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat did the Mad Scientist build?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho programmed the Deadly Mannequin?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is burning in CyberBurn?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho scarred the woman?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the psychic investigator being watched?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the Retro Robot remember?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere did the Alien Invader arrive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs Frankenstein’s Sister another creation—or the creator?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat caused the street-gang fight?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what its subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something inconvenient in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the resulting trouble to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, adventure or entire campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal commissioned artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the image a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishers must generally divide limited funds between writing, editing, layout, promotion, printing and the unreasonable aspiration that the creator might eventually be paid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters, creatures and locations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense sections of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a visual identity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete adventures and smaller supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd interest to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate campaign handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable art library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission funds for essential bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReplace the boxes labelled \u003cstrong\u003eART GOES HERE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne good image can transform a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty distinct subjects can populate a considerable portion of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND VARIANTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preview shows \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files representing 20 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive subjects are supplied with an additional version:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeadly Mannequin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScarred Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePunk Psychic Investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStalking Wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkulls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese alternate files include greyscale treatments, providing additional options for layouts, printing requirements and different visual tones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe remaining files cover characters, robots, creatures, action scenes and atmospheric material across several science-fiction subgenres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for personal and professional use under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and ensure that your intended use, alterations and attribution comply with its requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre. Science fiction naturally overlaps with horror, modern gaming, post-apocalyptic adventure and urban fantasy, so certain images may reasonably belong in several themed packs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can explore the complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/all\/clipart\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e or browse the other \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/all\/scifi\"\u003escience-fiction products\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scientist has escaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mannequin has moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe robot has begun asking questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour layout still needs pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttend to the most immediate crisis first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29208497061952,"sku":"BMA031","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/sf2.PNG?v=1561035315"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-scifi-3","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - SciFi 3","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTHE FUTURE IS ARMED, MUTATED AND BADLY SUPERVISED\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity has reached the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, we brought mercenaries, derelicts, murderous robots, haunted houses, heavily tattooed hard cases and whatever caused the space-station calamity along with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – SciFi 3\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 science-fiction TIFF files representing 20 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e, ready for use by publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from astronauts, robots and distant space stations to cyberpunk drifters, psychic investigators, mutants, scavengers and street-level characters. It is particularly useful for gritty science fiction, space opera, cyberpunk, science-fantasy, post-apocalyptic gaming and horror among the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral illustrations are supplied in alternate versions, providing greater flexibility for different projects and layouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork may be used in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAstronaut K\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuto Warriors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBattle Robot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommando\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep Space Station and Black 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mercenaries, scavengers, drifters and people whose names have been replaced by descriptions such as \u003cstrong\u003eTattooed Bad-Ass\u003c\/strong\u003e because further explanation would only waste valuable ammunition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection provides artwork suitable for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercenaries and hired muscle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoldiers and commandos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBounty hunters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScavengers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpaceport criminals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost-apocalyptic survivors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate 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statistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA weapon, scar or expression may provide the beginning of a history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the artwork completes a character you have already written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes it tells you who the character ought to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMACHINES BUILT FOR WAR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eAuto Warriors\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBattle Robot\u003c\/strong\u003e provide material for military science fiction, cyberpunk security forces, post-apocalyptic war machines and technological disasters that have continued functioning long after anyone remembers how to switch them off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey might represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAutonomous soldiers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate security machines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelics of an 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ship\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone who insists the thing attached to his cargo vessel was not present when he left\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharacters such as this help make a setting feel inhabited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot everyone in the future is an admiral, assassin or genetically engineered superhuman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody still has to move the cargo, repair the engines and complain about the price of drinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose people often know more about what is really happening than anyone in authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSCIENCE FICTION, CYBERPUNK AND SCIENCE-FANTASY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe breadth of the collection makes it useful across several related genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpace 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publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Modern Troll or Haunted House can pull a setting towards science-fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Auto Warriors and Commando suit military gaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Drifter, Scavenger Babe and Tough Biker Chica fit cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stations, astronauts and deep-space material can anchor a more traditional space-opera campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the whole collection together or take individual pieces wherever they prove useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art is a toolbox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody sensible buys a toolbox and insists upon using every implement upon the same machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning original artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely the image a project 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Experiment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSci-Fi Horror Header\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister Business Guy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat gives you soldiers, criminals, spies, mutants, investigators, cybernetic warriors, social elites and several people who should not be permitted within fifty metres of a functioning airlock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSCIENCE FICTION WITH DIRT UNDER ITS FINGERNAILS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every future is made from spotless corridors, elegant uniforms and serene people discussing humanity’s place in the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome futures are built from overcrowded stations, corporate corruption, genetic accidents, military occupation and desperate people carrying weapons they cannot legally afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSciFi 4\u003c\/strong\u003e is particularly useful for projects 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civilisation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mutant Children may be victims, predators or the first generation of something genuinely new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mutant Woman could be a player character, fugitive experiment or representative of an altered population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mutant Catman might be a hybrid soldier, engineered worker, alien species or evidence that somebody’s research funding should have been withdrawn much earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Psi Experiment suggests confinement, exploitation and powers developed under extremely unpleasant circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery experiment begins with a hypothesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery good science-fiction adventure begins when the hypothesis escapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCRIMINALS OF THE FUTURE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScientific progress has failed to eliminate crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has 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dystopias require more than street criminals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey require respectable criminals with offices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Suit\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAristocrat\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSinister Business Guy\u003c\/strong\u003e provide artwork for corporate executives, political operators, wealthy patrons and members of the ruling class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate directors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColonial governors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrime bosses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntelligence handlers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAristocrats of a revived imperial order\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOwners of private 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science fiction, criminal mysteries and investigations in which nobody involved possesses clean hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA disgraced police officer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA corporate detective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA blackmailer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fixer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn information broker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reluctant ally\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA professional who sells the same evidence several times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only person willing to investigate a case everyone else has been paid to ignore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePair him with the Espionage Guy, 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HORROR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes a dedicated \u003cstrong\u003eSci-Fi Horror Header\u003c\/strong\u003e, along with several images easily suited to darker projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombine it with the mutants, psychic experiment, doomed astronaut or vampire thug to support:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDerelict-spacecraft adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaboratory disasters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlien contamination\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBody horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorporate experimentation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMutant outbreaks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsolated colonies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvival scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCampaigns in which the distress signal should have remained unanswered\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe future offers countless new ways to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScience-fiction horror merely takes the time to examine them closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSTOCK ART AS AN ADVENTURE GENERATOR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood stock art does more than fill an empty part of a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt creates questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat doomed the astronaut?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho built the Cybernet Samurai?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy are the mutant children together?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened during the Winter Trek?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is arguing with the thugs?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat escaped from the psi experiment?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the private investigator look corrupt before he has even spoken?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat exactly makes the Vampire Thug a vampire?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the businessman smiling?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what the subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine what prevents them from getting it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect the problem to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is enough to begin an encounter, adventure or entire campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning bespoke artwork remains the best way to obtain precisely what a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent creators often need to divide limited budgets between writing, editing, layout, printing and the increasingly optimistic hope of paying themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art provides a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters, creatures and locations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense pages of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish the tone of a setting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete short adventures and supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvide images for chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a library for future publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commission budgets for essential bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally replace every box marked \u003cstrong\u003eART TO COME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne good illustration can transform a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-four distinct illustrations can populate a considerable portion of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND VARIANTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 TIFF files representing 24 distinct subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMutant Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e is supplied in both colour and greyscale, providing additional flexibility for different layouts and printing requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection otherwise consists primarily of black-and-white science-fiction illustration, well suited to traditional tabletop role-playing layouts and economical print publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose the version that best suits the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDo not deform an entire layout to accommodate one image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mutants have suffered enough already.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for use in personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and ensure that your intended use, alterations and attribution comply with its requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome illustrations also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit several genres. Science fiction naturally overlaps with horror, modern gaming, cyberpunk and urban fantasy, so mutants, criminals and sinister businesspeople may reasonably appear in more than one themed pack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can explore the complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e or browse the other \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/scifi\"\u003escience-fiction collections\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe future is crowded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe corporations are corrupt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe experiments have escaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive them something to look at.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29208573673536,"sku":"BMA033","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/sf4.PNG?v=1561035692"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-urban-fantasy-1","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Urban Fantasy 1","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTHE CITY HAS ALWAYS HAD MONSTERS\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of them have simply become better at dressing themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient creatures stalk modern streets. Witches drink in ordinary pubs. Serpent people pass unnoticed beneath heavy coats. Predators hide behind human faces, angels carry swords through neglected neighbourhoods and psychics investigate things the police would rather attribute to gas leaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Urban Fantasy 2\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a collection of characterful urban-fantasy illustrations for publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters who need professional artwork without commissioning every piece individually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection combines supernatural creatures, occult characters, contemporary monsters and atmospheric supporting images suitable for modern fantasy, paranormal investigation, supernatural horror and games in which reality becomes considerably less dependable after dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is available for personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files include artwork depicting:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA punk Naga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cheerful modern witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban predators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sword-bearing street angel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cackling witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankenstein’s monster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cosmic eye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sinister human-spider figure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA serpent man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld and occult books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad news and booze\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA punk psychic investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA magical full moon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stalking wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Victorian urban catman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn anguished angelic figure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful cannibal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected illustrations are supplied in colour and greyscale versions, with alternate file formats included for some pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, the images provide material for monsters, investigators, occultists, victims, hunters, artefacts, locations and people whose dating profiles have omitted several medically significant details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE SUPERNATURAL HAS GONE URBAN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy is built upon the collision between the impossible and the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster in a dungeon is expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster on the last bus home is a problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe creatures of myth and horror have not necessarily disappeared. They have moved into cities, adapted to modern life and discovered that crowded streets provide both anonymity and an inexhaustible supply of prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork in \u003cstrong\u003eUrban Fantasy 2\u003c\/strong\u003e is suitable for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban-fantasy role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern occult horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParanormal investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster-hunting campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary gothic fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic and magical thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHidden-world settings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent gaming magazines and ’zines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdventures and campaign supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal campaign documents and handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse individual images to complete an existing layout or draw upon the collection to populate an entire supernatural city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOLD MONSTERS, NEW HABITS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy creatures do not have to remain trapped in ancient ruins and mist-shrouded forests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Naga may run an underground club, control a criminal enterprise or serve as the representative of a supernatural community older than the city itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA serpent man may be an occult scholar, corporate infiltrator or survivor of a civilisation humanity has forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankenstein’s monster might be a relic, fugitive, artificial person or the first successful creation in a programme that has now entered mass production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian catman may have survived into the present day, stepped out of an old photograph or emerged from a forgotten district where the nineteenth century never quite ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach illustration can be adapted to fit the needs of your setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster may be an enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may be an ally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may simply want to be left alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, player characters have never demonstrated much talent for leaving anything alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWITCHES, PSYCHICS AND OCCULT INVESTIGATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every supernatural figure needs claws and an appetite for human flesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome have spells.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOthers possess visions, curses, inherited abilities or the unfortunate capacity to notice what everyone else has agreed not to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cheerful witch might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA neighbourhood occultist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe owner of a magical shop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dangerously enthusiastic amateur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA member of a hidden coven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn ally who regards demonic possession as an interesting challenge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person responsible for the present difficulty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cackling witch offers something darker: a curse-giver, cult leader, spirit or practitioner whose remaining humanity is open to debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe punk psychic investigator provides a ready-made protagonist or recurring supporting character for campaigns of supernatural investigation. She might be a medium, clairvoyant, urban shaman or exhausted professional attempting to pay the rent by speaking with things that should have stayed dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse her as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA player-character portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rival investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA source of supernatural information\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reluctant medium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA missing person\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA survivor of an earlier case\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only witness capable of seeing the real threat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA useful illustration does more than show the reader what somebody looks like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suggests who they are and what trouble follows them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eANGELS ON THE PAVEMENT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy often drags the grandest forces of mythology down into the dirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe street angel carries the imagery of divine warfare into a contemporary environment. She might be a celestial guardian, fallen warrior, magically altered vigilante or ordinary human bearing a power she does not entirely understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anguished angelic figure suggests a different story: pain, captivity, transformation or divine punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images can support stories involving:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelestial factions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFallen angels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReligious conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural vigilantes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWars between Heaven and Hell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDivine weapons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaith under pressure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngels abandoned by their creators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumans caught between inhuman powers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn angel does not have to be benevolent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demon does not have to be honest about being one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe characters may discover that the traditional categories are more political than moral—and that both sides regard humanity as expendable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePREDATORS IN HUMAN TERRITORY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe urban predators and stalking wolf provide artwork for shapeshifters, beast cults, supernatural hunters and things that regard the city as an unusually well-lit wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wolf may be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA werewolf caught between forms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural familiar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA guardian spirit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn escaped experiment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA predator following a particular scent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe visible portion of something much larger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first sign that the characters have entered another creature’s territory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe urban predators might represent a pack, a hidden community or a person whose relationship with the beasts around them is more intimate than ordinary animal handling permits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the images for encounters, faction material or entire campaigns built around territory, transformation and the struggle to remain human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe city belongs to humanity during office hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter dark, ownership becomes disputed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE BEAUTIFUL CANNIBAL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeauty is not evidence of harmlessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuite the opposite, in some genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful cannibal can be used as a sophisticated predator, cursed immortal, ritual murderer or apparently charming person with highly specialised dietary requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe may hunt through nightclubs, fashionable parties, dating applications or elite social circles where disappearances are dismissed as scandal rather than investigated as murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she kills to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she believes consuming someone grants access to their memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she is part of a hidden culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she simply enjoys it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA striking image can turn a simple antagonist into a memorable recurring character. Give her motives, appetites and enough charm that the players briefly consider trusting her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen allow nature to take its course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE CITY ITSELF PROVIDES CLUES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every piece in the collection is a character portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old books, cosmic eye, full moon and \u003cem\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/em\u003e provide useful atmospheric and contextual artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old books may represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA forbidden occult library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection inherited from a dead relative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe source of a dangerous ritual\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence gathered by an investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTomes that rewrite themselves\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBooks wanted by several competing factions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cosmic eye can illustrate psychic perception, alien influence, prophecy, magical surveillance or the deeply unpleasant sensation of discovering that the universe has noticed you personally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full moon is useful for shapeshifting, witchcraft, ritual magic and the traditional monthly collapse of everyone’s carefully maintained self-control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/em\u003e can introduce a murder, disappearance, conspiracy or exhausted investigator learning that the latest supernatural catastrophe has reached the morning papers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces help establish mood, introduce chapters and break up pages that do not require another portrait of somebody looking dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned artwork remains the ideal when money and time permit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishing rarely provides unlimited quantities of either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art offers a practical way to improve the appearance of a project, fill gaps in a layout and reserve commissioning funds for the images that must be created specifically for the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters and monsters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense pages of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete short adventures and supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd interest to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvide portraits for important NPCs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate handouts for players\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable library for future projects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease work that might otherwise remain unfinished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single good image can give a minor character enough presence to become important.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection can give an entire game line a recognisable visual identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT GENERATES ADVENTURES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art is most useful when it does more than fill an empty rectangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery image in the collection can become an adventure seed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the Naga living in the city?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho trained the street angel?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the psychic investigator searching for?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the old newspaper describe an event that has not happened yet?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat can the cosmic eye see?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho assembled Frankenstein’s monster this time?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the full moon marked with occult symbols?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is being stalked by the wolf?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened to the anguished angel?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhom has the beautiful cannibal invited to dinner?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what the subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect it to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, scenario or campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND VARIANTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 supplied image files\u003c\/strong\u003e, including alternate colour, greyscale and file-format versions of selected illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis gives publishers greater flexibility when preparing material for print or digital use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack-and-white and greyscale artwork sits comfortably within traditional role-playing layouts and reproduces well without requiring colour printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColour artwork can provide emphasis for major characters, artefacts, chapter openings and promotional material where permitted by the licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelect the version that best fits the page rather than forcing your layout to accommodate whatever file you happened to open first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe layout has suffered enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for use in personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and ensure that your intended use, alterations and credits comply with its requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre. Urban fantasy naturally overlaps with horror, contemporary gaming, fantasy and science fiction, so a witch, psychic, mutant or shapeshifter may reasonably appear in several themed packs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach collection is assembled to provide a useful selection for its chosen genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can explore the complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, including fantasy, horror, historical, modern, science-fiction and urban-fantasy collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe streets are crowded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old magic is waking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething inhuman has moved into the flat upstairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive it a face.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29208614338624,"sku":"BMA034","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/UF1.PNG?v=1561035917"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-urban-fantasy-2","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Urban Fantasy 2","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTHE CITY HAS ALWAYS HAD MONSTERS\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of them have simply become better at dressing themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient creatures stalk modern streets. Witches drink in ordinary pubs. Serpent people pass unnoticed beneath heavy coats. Predators hide behind human faces, angels carry swords through neglected neighbourhoods and psychics investigate things the police would rather attribute to gas leaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Urban Fantasy 2\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a collection of characterful urban-fantasy illustrations for publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters who need professional artwork without commissioning every piece individually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection combines supernatural creatures, occult characters, contemporary monsters and atmospheric supporting images suitable for modern fantasy, paranormal investigation, supernatural horror and games in which reality becomes considerably less dependable after dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is available for personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplied files include artwork depicting:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA punk Naga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cheerful modern witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban predators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sword-bearing street angel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cackling witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankenstein’s monster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cosmic eye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sinister human-spider figure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA serpent man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld and occult books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBad news and booze\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA punk psychic investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA magical full moon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stalking wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Victorian urban catman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn anguished angelic figure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful cannibal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected illustrations are supplied in colour and greyscale versions, with alternate file formats included for some pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, the images provide material for monsters, investigators, occultists, victims, hunters, artefacts, locations and people whose dating profiles have omitted several medically significant details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE SUPERNATURAL HAS GONE URBAN\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy is built upon the collision between the impossible and the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster in a dungeon is expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster on the last bus home is a problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe creatures of myth and horror have not necessarily disappeared. They have moved into cities, adapted to modern life and discovered that crowded streets provide both anonymity and an inexhaustible supply of prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork in \u003cstrong\u003eUrban Fantasy 2\u003c\/strong\u003e is suitable for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban-fantasy role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern occult horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParanormal investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster-hunting campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary gothic fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic and magical thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHidden-world settings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent gaming magazines and ’zines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdventures and campaign supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal campaign documents and handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse individual images to complete an existing layout or draw upon the collection to populate an entire supernatural city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOLD MONSTERS, NEW HABITS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasy creatures do not have to remain trapped in ancient ruins and mist-shrouded forests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Naga may run an underground club, control a criminal enterprise or serve as the representative of a supernatural community older than the city itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA serpent man may be an occult scholar, corporate infiltrator or survivor of a civilisation humanity has forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankenstein’s monster might be a relic, fugitive, artificial person or the first successful creation in a programme that has now entered mass production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian catman may have survived into the present day, stepped out of an old photograph or emerged from a forgotten district where the nineteenth century never quite ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach illustration can be adapted to fit the needs of your setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monster may be an enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may be an ally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt may simply want to be left alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, player characters have never demonstrated much talent for leaving anything alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWITCHES, PSYCHICS AND OCCULT INVESTIGATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every supernatural figure needs claws and an appetite for human flesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome have spells.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOthers possess visions, curses, inherited abilities or the unfortunate capacity to notice what everyone else has agreed not to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cheerful witch might be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA neighbourhood occultist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe owner of a magical shop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dangerously enthusiastic amateur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA member of a hidden coven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn ally who regards demonic possession as an interesting challenge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person responsible for the present difficulty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cackling witch offers something darker: a curse-giver, cult leader, spirit or practitioner whose remaining humanity is open to debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe punk psychic investigator provides a ready-made protagonist or recurring supporting character for campaigns of supernatural investigation. She might be a medium, clairvoyant, urban shaman or exhausted professional attempting to pay the rent by speaking with things that should have stayed dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse her as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA player-character portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rival investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA source of supernatural information\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reluctant medium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA missing person\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA survivor of an earlier case\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only witness capable of seeing the real threat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA useful illustration does more than show the reader what somebody looks like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suggests who they are and what trouble follows them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eANGELS ON THE PAVEMENT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy often drags the grandest forces of mythology down into the dirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe street angel carries the imagery of divine warfare into a contemporary environment. She might be a celestial guardian, fallen warrior, magically altered vigilante or ordinary human bearing a power she does not entirely understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anguished angelic figure suggests a different story: pain, captivity, transformation or divine punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images can support stories involving:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelestial factions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFallen angels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReligious conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural vigilantes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWars between Heaven and Hell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDivine weapons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaith under pressure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngels abandoned by their creators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumans caught between inhuman powers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn angel does not have to be benevolent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA demon does not have to be honest about being one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe characters may discover that the traditional categories are more political than moral—and that both sides regard humanity as expendable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePREDATORS IN HUMAN TERRITORY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe urban predators and stalking wolf provide artwork for shapeshifters, beast cults, supernatural hunters and things that regard the city as an unusually well-lit wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wolf may be:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA werewolf caught between forms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supernatural familiar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA guardian spirit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn escaped experiment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA predator following a particular scent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe visible portion of something much larger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first sign that the characters have entered another creature’s territory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe urban predators might represent a pack, a hidden community or a person whose relationship with the beasts around them is more intimate than ordinary animal handling permits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the images for encounters, faction material or entire campaigns built around territory, transformation and the struggle to remain human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe city belongs to humanity during office hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter dark, ownership becomes disputed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE BEAUTIFUL CANNIBAL\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeauty is not evidence of harmlessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuite the opposite, in some genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful cannibal can be used as a sophisticated predator, cursed immortal, ritual murderer or apparently charming person with highly specialised dietary requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe may hunt through nightclubs, fashionable parties, dating applications or elite social circles where disappearances are dismissed as scandal rather than investigated as murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she kills to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she believes consuming someone grants access to their memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she is part of a hidden culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps she simply enjoys it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA striking image can turn a simple antagonist into a memorable recurring character. Give her motives, appetites and enough charm that the players briefly consider trusting her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen allow nature to take its course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE CITY ITSELF PROVIDES CLUES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every piece in the collection is a character portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old books, cosmic eye, full moon and \u003cem\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/em\u003e provide useful atmospheric and contextual artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old books may represent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA forbidden occult library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection inherited from a dead relative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe source of a dangerous ritual\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence gathered by an investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTomes that rewrite themselves\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBooks wanted by several competing factions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cosmic eye can illustrate psychic perception, alien influence, prophecy, magical surveillance or the deeply unpleasant sensation of discovering that the universe has noticed you personally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full moon is useful for shapeshifting, witchcraft, ritual magic and the traditional monthly collapse of everyone’s carefully maintained self-control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBad News and Booze\u003c\/em\u003e can introduce a murder, disappearance, conspiracy or exhausted investigator learning that the latest supernatural catastrophe has reached the morning papers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pieces help establish mood, introduce chapters and break up pages that do not require another portrait of somebody looking dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT CREATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned artwork remains the ideal when money and time permit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent publishing rarely provides unlimited quantities of either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art offers a practical way to improve the appearance of a project, fill gaps in a layout and reserve commissioning funds for the images that must be created specifically for the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate characters and monsters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense pages of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete short adventures and supplements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd interest to chapter openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvide portraits for important NPCs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreate handouts for players\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable library for future projects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease work that might otherwise remain unfinished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single good image can give a minor character enough presence to become important.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection can give an entire game line a recognisable visual identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART THAT GENERATES ADVENTURES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art is most useful when it does more than fill an empty rectangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery image in the collection can become an adventure seed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the Naga living in the city?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho trained the street angel?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the psychic investigator searching for?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy does the old newspaper describe an event that has not happened yet?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat can the cosmic eye see?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho assembled Frankenstein’s monster this time?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the full moon marked with occult symbols?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho is being stalked by the wolf?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened to the anguished angel?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhom has the beautiful cannibal invited to dinner?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose an image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecide what the subject wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace something in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect it to the player characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is often enough to begin an encounter, scenario or campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFILES AND VARIANTS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 supplied image files\u003c\/strong\u003e, including alternate colour, greyscale and file-format versions of selected illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis gives publishers greater flexibility when preparing material for print or digital use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack-and-white and greyscale artwork sits comfortably within traditional role-playing layouts and reproduces well without requiring colour printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColour artwork can provide emphasis for major characters, artefacts, chapter openings and promotional material where permitted by the licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelect the version that best fits the page rather than forcing your layout to accommodate whatever file you happened to open first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe layout has suffered enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREAD THE LICENCE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is supplied for use in personal and professional projects under the terms of the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the licence before publication and ensure that your intended use, alterations and credits comply with its requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where they suit more than one genre. Urban fantasy naturally overlaps with horror, contemporary gaming, fantasy and science fiction, so a witch, psychic, mutant or shapeshifter may reasonably appear in several themed packs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach collection is assembled to provide a useful selection for its chosen genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can explore the complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/post-mort.com\/collections\/stock-art\/clip-art\"\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art range\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, including fantasy, horror, historical, modern, science-fiction and urban-fantasy collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe streets are crowded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old magic is waking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething inhuman has moved into the flat upstairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive it a face.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brad McDevitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29208652218432,"sku":"BMA035","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0193\/6411\/8592\/products\/UF2.PNG?v=1561036109"},{"product_id":"brad-mcdevitt-stock-art-urban-fantasy-3","title":"Brad McDevitt Stock Art - Urban Fantasy 3","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMAGIC DID NOT DISAPPEAR. IT MOVED INTO TOWN.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old monsters have adapted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWerewolves ride motorbikes. Wizards haunt nightclubs and back streets. Demons wear modern clothes, priests carry weapons and creatures from folklore have discovered that cities provide excellent hunting grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Urban Fantasy 3\u003c\/strong\u003e provides \u003cstrong\u003e25 pieces of urban-fantasy artwork\u003c\/strong\u003e for publishers, writers, game designers and Games Masters looking to populate the modern world with magic, monsters and people who know entirely too much about both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection combines contemporary characters with supernatural creatures, occult figures and modern interpretations of classic fantasy monsters. It is suitable for everything from paranormal investigation and supernatural horror to occult action, monster hunting, modern fantasy and gritty street-level campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is available for use in personal and professional projects, subject to the terms of the included licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE THE COLLECTION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn elegant female monster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern hag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA heavily armed priest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn immortal lover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern demon in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern demon in greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA contemporary elf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern troll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monstrous panther\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA punk psychic investigator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sabre-toothed werewolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sinister scarecrow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sinister shaman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tattooed bruiser in black and white\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tattooed bruiser in greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tough biker woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern wererat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA werewolf in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA grim and heavily armed priest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern clergyman in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA grinning ghoul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA contemporary wizard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mutant woman in colour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mutant woman in greyscale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA primitive or feral supernatural figure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is enough artwork to illustrate monsters, investigators, supporting characters, villains, hunters, cultists and several people who insist they are merely going through a difficult phase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE SUPERNATURAL IN THE MODERN WORLD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy thrives upon collision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient creatures inhabit modern cities. Magic operates beneath electric lights and security cameras. Supernatural feuds continue through nightclubs, tower blocks, underground stations and anonymous industrial estates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe characters may carry mobile phones and firearms, but the things hunting them are older than civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection provides artwork suitable for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban-fantasy role-playing games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParanormal investigation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern occult horror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster-hunting campaigns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary dark fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic and magical thrillers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGames about hidden supernatural societies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent magazines and ’zines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorror and fantasy fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal campaign documents and handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse a single illustration to complete an adventure or draw upon the entire collection to establish the visual identity of a hidden supernatural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMONSTERS HAVE MOVED WITH THE TIMES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassic monsters do not have to remain trapped in ruined castles and mist-shrouded forests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA werewolf may belong to a biker gang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA troll may work as criminal muscle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn elf may have learned to move through the modern city without attracting attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hag may occupy a neglected flat at the end of an ordinary street, dispensing curses, drugs and questionable advice to anyone desperate enough to knock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork in \u003cstrong\u003eUrban Fantasy 3\u003c\/strong\u003e helps bring traditional fantasy and horror creatures into the present day without stripping away their menace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese figures look as though they belong in a world of alleyways, cheap flats, crowded bars, occult conspiracies and violence beneath the sodium lights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are not fantasy characters awkwardly holding mobile phones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are creatures that have learned to survive here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHUNTERS, PRIESTS AND INVESTIGATORS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot everyone in the collection is a monster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of them are the people trying to stop the monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe punk psychic investigator offers a ready-made protagonist, supporting character or reluctant medium. The armed priests suggest churches and occult orders that have taken a practical approach to supernatural evil. The biker woman might be a hunter, criminal, survivor or somebody who has simply had a very long evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese illustrations can be used for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer-character portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonster hunters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult detectives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExorcists and militant clergy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychics and mediums\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupernatural criminals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMembers of secret societies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecurring allies and enemies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictims who prove considerably less helpless than expected\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA strong character image can suggest attitude, history and personality before a single word of description has been written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho trained the armed priest?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does the psychic investigator see?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy is the biker carrying that weapon?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich of them knows that the apparent victim is actually the most dangerous creature in the room?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the illustration answers a question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore often, it gives the writer better questions to ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSHAPESHIFTERS AND STREET MONSTERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes several werecreatures and beastlike figures, including a wererat, werewolf, sabre-toothed werewolf and monstrous panther.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese can represent isolated predators or members of larger supernatural communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the wererats control the tunnels and forgotten spaces beneath the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the werewolves have divided the surrounding districts into territories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the sabre-toothed creature belongs to an older bloodline believed extinct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the panther is a shapeshifter, summoned guardian or escaped experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse them as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePredators stalking a neighbourhood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMembers of supernatural gangs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuardians of occult sites\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnforcers for hidden factions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlayer characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictims of transformations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient creatures adapting to modern life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence that something is changing the local supernatural population\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single monster provides an encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral suggest an ecosystem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn ecosystem suggests politics, territory and the possibility that the characters have unknowingly walked into somebody else’s war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOCCULT FIGURES AND MODERN MAGIC\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy requires magic that feels at home in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes a modern wizard, sinister shaman, immortal figure, psychic investigator and several supernatural characters whose precise nature can be adapted to suit your setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey may be magicians, spirits, cult leaders, immortals or things merely pretending to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern wizard might operate from a cramped apartment filled with books, computers and ritual equipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shaman might negotiate with spirits inhabiting abandoned factories and roadside shrines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe immortal lover could be a vampire, faerie, revenant or ageless manipulator who has spent centuries becoming extremely good at telling people what they want to hear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese images can support stories involving:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagical conspiracies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOccult investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHidden supernatural communities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient rivalries in modern settings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychic phenomena\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCults and secret religions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForbidden rituals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImmortality and its consequences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagic surviving beneath ordinary life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrban fantasy works best when the impossible feels close enough to touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreferably without touching you back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCOLOUR, BLACK AND WHITE, AND GREYSCALE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes a mixture of colour, black-and-white and greyscale artwork, including variant versions of selected illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis gives publishers greater flexibility when constructing a book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack-and-white pieces work particularly well within traditional role-playing layouts, reproducing clearly and sitting comfortably alongside text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreyscale versions offer a softer tonal range for digital or printed projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColour artwork can be used to emphasise important characters, introduce chapters or provide visual anchors within a larger publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose the version that fits your layout, print requirements and budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDo not force a page to accommodate unsuitable artwork merely because it happens to be available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe page will remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePROFESSIONAL ART FOR INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioning bespoke art remains the best way to obtain precisely the image a project requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall publishers, independent designers and self-published writers rarely have unlimited art budgets, particularly when producing shorter supplements, adventures or experimental projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStock art offers a practical alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can help you:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreak up dense areas of text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrate monsters and characters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablish a consistent atmosphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete an otherwise finished layout\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImprove the appearance of smaller publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease work that might otherwise remain unfinished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuild a reusable library for future projects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReserve commissioning funds for the most important bespoke pieces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne good illustration can transform a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of them can provide the visual foundation for an entire game line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIMAGES THAT CREATE STORIES\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most useful stock art does more than fill space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt inspires material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sinister scarecrow might be the guardian of a forgotten urban garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe grinning ghoul might haunt hospital corridors and underground tunnels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern demon could be a corporate fixer, nightclub owner or 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His creatures look strange, dangerous and occasionally ridiculous in precisely the right way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old orc chieftain looks as though he has survived enough adventurers to become bored with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reptile-man looks capable of tearing through a mercenary company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe serpent queen is surrounded by enough symbolism and menace to support an entire cult, dungeon or campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ninja zombie answers a question nobody sensible was asking—and immediately suggests half a dozen adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are not merely pictures of things already described in your manuscript. 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Select an image, place it before the players and begin asking questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe answers may produce an encounter, an antagonist or an entire campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCOLOUR, GREYSCALE AND CLASSIC LINE ART\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preview contains a mixture of traditional black-and-white fantasy illustration and selected colour or greyscale variants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack-and-white artwork remains particularly useful for role-playing publications. 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professional projects, subject to the terms of the included licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you are producing a complete historical role-playing game, a short adventure, an independent ’zine or a handout for your home campaign, this collection offers artwork ready to bring people, places and periods to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eART FOR HISTORICAL GAMING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical publications need more than dates, statistics and lovingly researched paragraphs about the correct fastening of a fourteenth-century shoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey need people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoldiers, civilians, rulers, rebels, travellers, workers, survivors and all the other human beings who make history something more than a procession of arrows upon a map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good illustration can establish a period, suggest an entire character or provide the seed from which an encounter, adventure or campaign 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publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal campaign documents and handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork can help establish tone, break up dense sections of text and give your readers something memorable to associate with the people and events you describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFOR HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FANTASY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every project needs to reproduce history with absolute academic precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes history is the foundation rather than the destination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese illustrations can also be used in low fantasy, alternate history, swashbuckling adventure, gothic horror, military fantasy and other settings drawing heavily upon real periods and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA historical figure can become:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mercenary captain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suspicious courtier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA village elder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA revolutionary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA merchant or guild official\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA soldier from a rival kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn explorer, outlaw or conspirator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA supporting character in an historical scenario\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe inspiration for an entirely new adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemove the supernatural elements from a fantasy game and much of what remains is historical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd supernatural elements to history and you have the 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It can make a short supplement feel more complete, give a character an immediate presence and turn a useful manuscript into something people actually want to browse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Collection 5\u003c\/strong\u003e is particularly useful for:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilling awkward gaps in a layout\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrating character descriptions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstablishing the period or atmosphere of a chapter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProviding portraits for important personalities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecorating title pages and section openings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspiring encounters and scenarios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdding visual interest to otherwise text-heavy material\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding a library of reusable publishing resources\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuy the collection once and use the images in appropriate projects according to the attached licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour art budget may remain painfully finite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour ambitions need not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTHE WORK OF BRAD McDEVITT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrad McDevitt is a veteran role-playing game illustrator whose work has appeared across a wide range of fantasy, horror and historical gaming publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis artwork has the character of traditional tabletop illustration: bold lines, expressive figures and images designed to communicate an idea clearly upon the printed page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is artwork made for games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is intended to accompany descriptions, provoke ideas and give players and readers something around which to build their imaginations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single figure may become an important ally or enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA martial image may suggest a battle, rebellion or military campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA face may provide the missing personality for a character the Games Master previously knew only as “the suspicious fellow at the inn”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriters begin with words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes a picture tells them what the next words ought to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eUSE THE ART YOUR WAY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery creator has different needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou might use several images throughout one large publication, select a single piece for a short supplement or retain the collection as part of a broader stock-art library for future projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations may be cropped, positioned and incorporated into layouts as permitted by the attached licence. Always read the licence before publication and ensure that any required credit is included in your finished product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome pieces may also appear in other Brad McDevitt collections where an image suits more than one genre. This allows each themed collection to remain useful in its own right without forcing publishers to purchase unrelated packs merely to obtain suitable historical material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose the collections that fit your projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse the artwork that fits your pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeave the blank white rectangles to people publishing government reports.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEXPAND YOUR STOCK-ART LIBRARY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Historical Collection 5\u003c\/strong\u003e is one part of a much larger range covering historical, fantasy, horror, modern, science-fiction and urban-fantasy subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombine several collections to build a versatile art library capable of supporting different games, settings and publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can explore the complete \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca 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good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt Stock Art – Horror Collection 8\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a substantial selection of professional horror illustrations at a price intended to remain practical for independent publishers, game designers, writers and anyone else trying to make something suitably unpleasant without sacrificing the food budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains \u003cstrong\u003e25 horror-themed TIFF illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e by veteran artist \u003cstrong\u003eBrad McDevitt\u003c\/strong\u003e, ready for use in personal and professional projects under the terms of the included licence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork combines Brad’s distinctive black-and-white linework with selected colour pieces, offering monsters, victims, killers, supernatural creatures and sinister scenes suitable for role-playing games, adventures, fiction, ’zines and other horror projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINSIDE 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