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Madza
Madza

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Where do you get illustrations?

When working on a project with tight deadlines, using free illustrations might both look good and save time.

Some of my favorite resources include unDraw, IRA Design, Ouch, DrawKit and Humaaans. Downloads are available in both PNG and SVG.

What are your favorite sources for free illustrations?

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Madza

We need more people like you ❤👍✨

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Dennis Frijlink

For realistic photos: unsplash.com/

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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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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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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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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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Jayson Monterroso

Great resources! I've been looking for this!

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AKAAKI157

Thank you - this is so great!

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Liyas Thomas
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jun

glazestock.com/ has some cool free illustrations too!

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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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Mithun Kamath

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

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Julian Rademacher

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

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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.