Concept Art and Reference

Schematic/Blueprint

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_technical_drawings
Great list of schematics and technical drawings.  Moves historically, which is interesting.


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Technical_drawings_by_theme
Same categories, but sorted by theme.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Architectural_drawings
Focus on floor plans, architectural elements.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drawings_by_theme
A very general list of drawings.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/
hmm...whatever could THIS site be about?




Character Reference/Model Sheets

http://www.catsuka.com/gengal.php
Great site with model and concept sheets from many animated features and series.

http://animationarchive.net/Model%20Sheets/index.php
Disnet Model sheets...links are little wonky, but most of the stuff is there

http://www.drawingboard.org/viewforum.php?f=11
Model sheets...forum based, but good stuff!


Inspiration:

http://www.allworldwars.com/Soviet%20War%20Paintings.html
Soviet War Paintings

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/
Civil War prints, scanned from Harper's Weekly

http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html
Submarine Plans

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/doppelmayr/doppelmayr.htm
Excellent Astronomical Plates

http://www.fischer-feten-und-reisen.de/swg/extra/ships.html

Star Wars ships...overdone, but fun anyway

http://animationarchive.net/Backgrounds/index.php

Disney backgrounds

http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

Spaceships rule

http://conceptrobots.blogspot.com/

Robots are awesome

http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm

Modern Ruins

http://1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/en/mammal.html

Mammal Skulls

Tools:
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Graphics/