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Where do you get illustrations?

Madza on November 02, 2020

When working on a project with tight deadlines, using free illustrations might both look good and save time. Some of my favorite resources include...
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Joe Czubiak •

I like to poke around in some of the big lists of resources like github.com/bradtraversy/design-res...

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cyberraff •

This is really helpful 👍
Thanks for sharing.

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Ehab Elghariani •

I have brad design resources list bookmarked and used it many times.

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Madza •

We need more people like you ❤👍✨

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Louis Low •

When if I have tight deadlines, the quickest way to create an illustration with added some creativity to it is mix-and-match some part of the illustrations from many into one. For example, if I need icons, I got visiting Flaticon and look for icons that have an element that I want, I use PS or AI to cut some part of the icons that I collected and mixing the other small part to form a unique new icon.

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Sathish Ramani •

2.flexiple.com/scale/home -->I have not used anywhere yet. But, came across in IH forum and bookmarked.

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AKAAKI157 • • Edited

I have been using free photos/illustrations, with attribution, from freepik.com/
I also discovered that you can embed Getty Images just by using their code, which includes attributions & all: gettyimages.com/

Another place that I found that has a list of free photo sources (scroll to stock photos): allien.work/projects/link-base/

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Andrew • • Edited

Last 6 months I use illustrations from absurd.design/ I have started with the free illustrations, later I have subscribed to the membership plan.

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Stephanie Morillo •

One of my favorites that I've come across this year. is from Black Illustrations. They have illustrations in various categories, including education, disability, STEM, and business. :)

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Ladefuss •

I buy most of my illustrations from creativemarket.com/. It's not free but prices are very reasonable in my opinion. There is so much to choose from and the quality is higher than the free stuff.
Some times i have to go through tons of pages to find the right illustration but it's usually worth it. The search function could be improved but thats a minor problem.

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Mithun Kamath •

Recently came across this subreddit - reddit.com/r/FreeIllustrations/

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jun •

glazestock.com/ has some cool free illustrations too!

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AKAAKI157 •

Thank you - this is so great!

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Andy Piper •

This is such a useful post, since I hadn't come across any of these! thanks for sharing!

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Julian Rademacher •

Sometimes openclipart.org/ is a good source for that.

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isa56 •

I use rawpixel.com and pexels.com for design tests.

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Jayson Monterroso •

Great resources! I've been looking for this!

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Sergei ZH •