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How to Find Awesome Graphics for Your Design Project

by Sachin ChaurasiyaJanuary 25th, 2022
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When we work with website design and development, we often need to add a variety of different graphics. We need to do this so that users can visualize what we are designing and developing. To add illustrations/graphics we need to find or create ones that match our requirements. Creating illustrations from scratch is time-consuming and takes a lot of effort, so instead of creating our own illustrations, we can get them from illustration websites that are available for free plus (we can buy paid ones if required). In this article, I'm going to share the top 5 illustrations websites where you can find different kinds of great illustrations for your next project. Let's get started.

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When we work with website design and development, we often need to add a variety of different graphics. We need to do this so that users can visualize what we are designing and developing.


To add illustrations/graphics we need to find or create ones that match our requirements.


Creating illustrations from scratch is time-consuming and takes a lot of effort, so instead of creating our own illustrations, we can get them from illustration websites that are available for free plus (we can buy paid ones if required).


In this article, I'm going to share the top 5 illustrations websites where you can find different kinds of great illustrations for your next project.


Let's get started.

1. Storyset

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Storyset is a cool collection of illustrations to power up your next project. There are 5 different styles available in Storyset. You can choose one and customize it as you want, then export it as SVG or PNG.


You can also apply the animation and export the animation in HTML, GIF or MP4 video formats.

Link for Storyset.

2. Open Doodles

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Open Doodle is an open-source collection of free illustrations. it allows you to download illustrations in SVG and PNG format.


It also provides you with a generator to generate doodles using an existing theme or by creating your own theme.

Link for Open Doodles.

3. Themeisle

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Themeisle is a great website to get high-quality, free, and delightful illustrations to use in your next project.


You have to just specify your brand colour and then it will create all the illustrations with your brand colour.


The best thing about Themeisle is it allows you to download all the illustrations in one go.

Link for Theme Isle.

4. Humaaans

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Humaaans is a great website to get illustrations of people with a design library. You can edit all the illustrations using blush editor.


You can customize their positions, clothing, colours, and hairstyle to create some cool scenes. You can add backgrounds and use the power of libraries to make it your own.

Link for humaaans.

5. Drawkit

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Drawkit comes with various types of illustrations like Health & Medical Illustrations, Digital Marketing Illustrations, Marketing and ads Illustrations etc.


Drawkit has both free and premium illustrations. It also has a collection of icons to use in your next project.

Link for Drawkit.

Bonus: UnDraw

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UnDraw is an OpenSource illustration project with beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution.


You can create your own illustration and contribute to the UnDraw project.

Link for UnDraw.

Summary

To summarize we talked about the top 5 illustration websites, some of them are open source and some of them are freemium. I use unDraw and Humaaans very often for my projects. Let me know which one you use.


And that’s it for this topic. Thank you for reading.

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