I may have missed it it was discussed, but where do you find most of the Public Domain art you use for works?
Oh man, all over. There’s scans and photos of stuff all over the internet, Wikimedia Commons has lots of stuff from more well-known artists, lots of people scan stuff they like. There’s pdfs of old books on the Gutenberg Project website or whatever it is. I have a pile of old books with engravings in them (buying a better scanner is on my to-do list, actually), and other stuff from my dad’s library. Lots of libraries also carry art books with dead dudes stuffs.
It takes a lot of research. Fine art painters are easier to track down than illustrators because Art History. Publishing outside of the US also helps, because US copyright laws are batshit crazy.
I may have missed it it was discussed, but where do you find most of the Public Domain art you use for works?
Oh man, all over. There’s scans and photos of stuff all over the internet, Wikimedia Commons has lots of stuff from more well-known artists, lots of people scan stuff they like. There’s pdfs of old books on the Gutenberg Project website or whatever it is. I have a pile of old books with engravings in them (buying a better scanner is on my to-do list, actually), and other stuff from my dad’s library. Lots of libraries also carry art books with dead dudes stuffs.
It takes a lot of research. Fine art painters are easier to track down than illustrators because Art History. Publishing outside of the US also helps, because US copyright laws are batshit crazy.