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3 years ago ::
Dec 29, 2009 - 12:31PM
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Go to Google Images and enter 'Fantasy landscapes'. You can spend days there.
FWIW, I prefer to avoid the sblocks here. I'd like to post some that I've grabbed, but would rather not repeat what you've shown so far.
Good work.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 05, 2010 - 7:15PM
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3 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2010 - 6:02PM
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Mar 19, 2007
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And I got too busy to post for another.... month!  I'll try to post another 5 pictures every weekend or so... EVENTIDE
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Astral Sea
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I really like the concept that the Astral Sea looks like a nebula. Mostly because they look awesome and beautiful like this. Yay!
And on a different note, it looks like someone broke reality. Oops.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 27, 2010 - 8:45PM
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For the love of god, keep posting and make this a sticky! This is up there with DDI. Thank you so much, very good idea! I feel, quiet inspired.
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3 years ago ::
Jan 30, 2010 - 7:27PM
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Mar 19, 2007
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As you wish! (tumbled down hill) Right, anyway... Megalopolis
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I've been staying away from sci-fi looking art (this is supposed to be DnD), but I really like this one. A bit of variety is a good thing.
More pretty waterfalls. Also, a Mayan-looking temple. Temples are cool.
Keeping with the Mayan theme, here's another, followed by some Fun History Facts.
One of the South American cultures (I think it was the Mayans) had running water. They would tap into springs and rivers flowing downhill, channel it into a stone pipe, direct it throughout their buildings, then narrow the pipes to generate water pressure and make fountins and such.
Oh, and they did this with NO fancy tools. Basically stone-age technology. They believed the gods appreciated the physical labor put into their temples, so they purposly did things the hardest way physically possible.
For more on the ancient engineering feats of the Ancient (and modern) world, track down a History Channel special hosted by Peter Weller called "Engineering An Empire." I rented the DvDs from the library and I loved it. Lots of cool ideas, concepts, and factoids for history goobers like me.
Now if only I could keep all those details straight (I get the names of cultures confused, so this may have been about the Aztecs, or those two factoids might have been to two different cultures. They were South American though! I swear! :paranoid
An aging city high in the mountains. Could be a floating city. Magic's cool like that. 
OK, not quite dusk, but my vocab is failing me tonight.
Some nice lighting effects, though I think they are slightly overdone. Still, it looks like something from LotR, which I like.
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3 years ago ::
Feb 08, 2010 - 8:02PM
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Mar 19, 2007
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I'm back! Weird... tree... plateaus?
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This is unique, that's for sure.
Same artist as above, but these two are the only 'relevant to DnD' pieces. Not much there yet, but he may be another one to watch.
Also, I think I said this before, but the sheer variety of people on these artist website continues to amaze me. People from around the world... just sharing art. Weird when you think about it.
These next two are both by Lemmy-X, who likes to mess with planets floating in weird space-like backgrounds. Many of which I like and some of which I find weird and... too random I suppose.
The gems like this first one are worth the hit-and-miss if you ask me. Not saying the other stuff is bad, it just too abstract for my tastes. Anyway, his art all follows themes like this so I won't link too many directly, but if you like this kind of stuff just see his gallery
I've shared lots of artificial stuff recently, so here's something more grounded in reality:
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3 years ago ::
Feb 08, 2010 - 8:19PM
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Jungle of Drooling Statues
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OK, dumb title (which I made up, not the artist), but I am trying to give these sblock titles something descriptive for later. Jungle # 5 isn't really that helpful in the long run.
Anyway, the lizard-inspired carvings caught my eye.
I find this one slightly cheezy in an over-the-top-oozing-with-goodness way. But, hey, its something different. Maybe this is where that evil party can finally go hog-wild and start a war against the Care Bears and My Little Ponies.
I couldn't resist! 
Yah, good luck storming that castle.
This piece just glows with personality. I've been meaning to share it for a while.
I didn't know it was possible to make a sand castle this awesome. I have no idea what the scale on this thing is, but I've heard in the comments and via Wikki that it might be 20-30 feet.
Holy Crap.
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3 years ago ::
Feb 09, 2010 - 12:30PM
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Mar 12, 2009
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God of the Forest
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Not entirely landscape, but still very awesome looking.
Good for the Spellplagued regions in Forgotten Realms!
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3 years ago ::
Feb 13, 2010 - 1:51PM
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Mar 19, 2007
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Very nice. That Forest Church reminds me of Ravnica, from the MTG universe. Rob Alexander, Temple Garden
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Rob Alexander is a long-time MTG artist, and the Lands from Magic could make LOTS of awesome contributions to this thread. Unfortunatly most of the art I've found from Magic, including Rob's Website, it is fairly low-res or med-res at best. Still some great finds there, but I'm not going to post all of them; they are easy to find once you have a link.
Anyway, Ravnica was a city-planet with 10 guilds, one for each pair of colors. The white-green guild lived giant atriums and such, with plant life intermingled within the building structure.
This is the best picture I can find of it, but it evokes much of the same vibe I got from the contribution above.
Here's more Rob Alexander Stuff:
Here's one I found a week or so ago, and I figured I'd save it for V-day.
Probably a little too cheezy to use for DnD, but it's still good art from an artist I'm watching.
I haven't posted anything elvish-looking latley. Here we go!
Not much to say, but the scale of the tree really caught my eye.
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3 years ago ::
Feb 21, 2010 - 8:50AM
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Mar 19, 2007
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