ideas and inspiration

Draw, Gabby, Draw!
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Children's and Fantasy Illustrations
Illustration Blog
Drawn
The Crooked House
raw toast design
Children's Illustrations
picturebook illustrations (and authors)
animation archive
How to be a children's book illustrator
A Faerietale of Inspiration
Lines and Colors
Love For Books
Marguerite Moulin's blog 
Le Blog de Li-An
The Pictorial Arts


The Beautiful Necessity
Pre Raphaelite Art
The Earthly Paradise

Women illustrators

and other Goddess, Fairy and oracle card artists
Vania Zouravliov
Deviant Art
Flickr vintage illustrations,  children illustrations, Vintage Children's Books group,
world market portraits
Jan Pienkowski

Disney artists I love the flowery, colorful, romantic, Disney style...

Maurice Boutet de Monvel

Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Umbrellas in the rain, Venice

la belle dame sans merci 

http://people.ku.edu/~delliott/courses/314/labelledame.htm

http://deliciousvengeance.blogspot.com/

http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/

Frank Adams fairytale illustrations

Jean-Léon Gérôme paintings

This guy made me cry...
Jeremy Lipking

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=197315

Dean Cornwell

william heath robinson


http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2010/02/rose-oneill-didnt-just-draw-kewpie.html

John R. Neill; the illustrator of Oz books

http://figurationfeminine.blogspot.com/

John Larriva

http://las-palabras-magicas.blogspot.com/

http://www.artrenewal.org/

http://polarbearstale.blogspot.com/

http://eratoslyre.blogspot.com/

http://www.artmagick.com/

http://aprophecyforafantasy.blogspot.com/

http://adventuresintheprinttrade.blogspot.com/

http://gimmemorebananas.blogspot.com/

http://adventuresintheprinttrade.blogspot.com/

http://galleryar.blogspot.com/

Ilon Wikland
Hans Arnold
Hannu Taina
Maija Karma
Aleksander Lindeberg (Pessi ja Illusia)
Katriina Viljamaa-Rissanen
Björn Landström
Matti Kota

Hans Holbein
Albrecht Dürer

http://illustrativo.blogspot.com/

http://richardsmyth.wordpress.com/category/art/

http://www.tendreams.org/fantasy.html

hieronymus bosch and being influenced claude verlinde

http://femmefemmefemme.wordpress.com/


http://aprophecyforafantasy.blogspot.com/

http://www.24open.ru/lillya87/blog/831525/


http://lfg.hu/art/search.php?search_keywords=art

http://jrpoulter.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/angel-dominguez-spains-leading-illustrator-in-the-tradition-of-the-golden-age/

http://www.listology.com/nance/list/my-favorite-paintings-top-1000

I'm at Banksy

http://frankzumbach.wordpress.com/

http://tlcillustration.blogspot.com/

http://thebeatthatmyheartskipped.co.uk/

http://www.linesandcolors.com/ 

http://artandinfluence.blogspot.com/

http://williamwray.com/influences.html

http://www.oocities.org/~kitiaria/FantasyArt.html

http://www.australianfantasyart.com/

http://0rchid-thief.livejournal.com/372885.html

http://valentinasroom.blogspot.com/2008/06/art-of-p-j-lynch.html

http://americangallery.wordpress.com/

http://underpaintings.blogspot.com/

http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/

http://www.illusionsgallery.com/index.html

http://www.artmagick.com/

http://serlen.diary.ru/

http://bjws.blogspot.com/

http://gandalfsgarden.blogspot.com/

http://igallo.blogspot.com/2008/04/credits-i-promised-earlier-part-1.html 

http://peacocksgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Illustrations

http://www.mestresdarte.com/

http://www.paintingall.com/articles/ 

http://enchantingimagery.tumblr.com/
http://surrealistisch.blogspot.com/
http://atouchofvaudeville.typepad.com/a_touch_of_vaudeville/

http://aprophecyforafantasy.blogspot.com/
http://sifeliztufueras.blogspot.com/2010/07/mas-cuentos.html
http://pjlynchgallery.blogspot.com/
http://enchantingimagery.tumblr.com/archive