When you are preparing a design project, presentation, UX prototype, pitch for a product, etc, sometimes you need a few shortcuts to get things done faster and focus on the logistic instead of the finesses. Before you are listed our best pics of websites that can help you get appropriate illustrations, absolutely free.
1 Streamline Illustrations
Streamline Illustrations gives you 50 illustrations for free, plus another 250 LGBT illustrations. You can choose between multicolor, duotone and monotone, and then download them for Illustrator, Sketch, SVG, PDF, PNG or Iconjar vector files. The illustrations themselves are cute, cartoon-like, and applicable to almost every topic.
The full pack includes 3000 customizable illustrations, and their price is only $199.
2 DrawKit
DrawKit gives you practical illustrations for your design, usable for startups and small businesses. They are under MIT license, which means that you can use them for commercial purposes. Acknowledged as No 1 Product of the Day by Product Hunt, DrawKit offers free categories, but also three different packages – Packs, Modular Kits and Animations, all for different prices. As Bukowski would say: Find what you love and let it… (p.s. this is not actually Bukowski, the internet just assigned it to him).
3 Absurd Design
The sole name of this source makes you love it. Absurd Design is a weird, journalistic-comic type of drawings, black and white, available for your designs. They give you a total of eleven free designs, that you can use in commercial purposes, in PNG format. For the big players, they offer a monthly membership, that opens the gate for colored illustrations, SVG vectors, and all the drawings you can get.
4 Bottts
Well, this is a whole different story. If you grew up loving Dr Who (like I did), or you come from a geeky background, you are going to flip to these designs! Bottts is a library, which gives you the elements to combine together for your perfectly designed robot illustration. You can mix the elements up using a Sketch App (they are basically a Sketch library themselves), design your robot’s frame, antenna, colors and more. Look them up, they are adorable ?
5 Ouch
Best kind of deal – you get free design, and in return, you have to link back to the source. This gives you a free resource and gives them visibility in return, so it builds a very respectful, symbiotic relationship between the designers and the illustrators. Ouch.pics is a project developed by Icons8, that aims to free vector illustrations for the user interface. They offer a clean, contemporary look to your designs. Alongside with stock photos, free icon packs, and free music, their desire is to build a design platform and change the way people create.
What are your favorite open-source platforms? Let us know in the comments below :)
Author: Nina Petrov, ninapetrov.com
