Surely more than once you have needed images to illustrate a project. Perhaps for a book, for a special banner, or to present a job that you expected to give the "final touch" to the client's yes. But you haven't had time to search for free illustrations.
For this reason, today we have taken out the magnifying glass and we have done a good search on the Internet with which we can give you pages where to find free illustrations. Neither photos nor vectors. Illustrations that you can use as resources for your work. Do you want to know where we have looked?
Pixabay
Pixabay is a very large image bank. But if you look, in its internal search section (the one it gives you when you do a search in the main one) it allows you to narrow down more in terms of what you need.
And one of the parts of that search engine is the “illustrations” one. Also, they are free illustrations, with which you will not have to pay anything.
The only thing we do recommend is that you register on the page because that way you won't have to go through the captcha every time you want to download an image.
draw kit
Don't let this page fool you. It is possible that, when you enter, you will only see illustration packs that are paid, and we have told you that we are going to give you options for free illustrations. Actually it does. But they hide them a little.
At first, the first results that are going to come out in the searches are going to be paid image packs, but if you keep going down, little by little you will find some free ones and at the end of the day you also have them.
the illustrations They are ideal for building a website or for holding events. such as discounts, offers, rebates, topics of interest, articles, etc. so they can come in handy.
You just have to spend time to see them all (many of them are animated).
Freepik
Freepik is a page to which something similar to Drawkit happens. It has paid images and others for free. So when you do a search, you can filter so that you only get the free ones.
The good thing is that, in terms of illustrations, you will not only have the usual ones (as in Drawkit) but you will also find jewels that They can be used to illustrate books (or as cover).
humaaans
humaaans we love it for a specific reason: it allows us to have one of the largest and most complete image banks in the world. Not only do you have illustrations of full bodies, or groups of people, but you also have many different scenes, or half bodies, to fit whatever you're looking for.
In addition, it has one more incentive to recommend it: you can add backgrounds, rotate the bodies, change their clothes, color, hairstyle... In other words, you will customize them to your liking.
icons8
Don't let the name of this page fool you. In it you will be able to find multitude of illustrations in different categories. In fact, it's a of the most famous in the world And the good thing is that they have free illustrations, so we recommend it as a resource for your work.
Of course, they are vector illustrations, so if you are looking for another type, the most normal thing is that you have to go to other pages.
iconsscout
This is another of the free illustration pages that you can review. in it you have different packages with activities, people or animals, with which it can fit into multiple sectors.
Of course, to download the designs, you will have to register since it does not allow to do it in another way.
You should also know that you have free and paid content. And that will further reduce the chances of finding good illustrations (although you will find some).
Open Doodles
All the free illustrations that you download from this page they give permission to copy, edit, remix, share and even redraw those images, which means that you have them for everything you need because there are no restrictions on them. That is, you can use it for both personal and commercial use.
What are you going to find in it? Well images of all kinds. In fact, before downloading them you can change the background, although we recommend it better later because it will also paint part of the illustrations. There is also a possibility to change the color of the clothes, but this is only for pro users. With Photoshop or similar you could do the same.
Shutterstock
Shutterstock is known for being a of the most famous paid image pages (to which many companies, agencies and publishers go to get their photos). However, what few know is that has free illustrations.
How? Well, applying a subscription test of 10 images. Thus, you can get 10 professional level without having to pay for them.
Of course, they may ask you for a payment method (you will apply a coupon (PICK10FREE)) but if you cancel within that first month they do not charge you anything.
undDraw
undDraw It is one of the ones we like the most for a reason: we can directly change the main color of the illustrations.
For example, imagine that a person comes out wearing a suit and a purple tie. But in your company the logo is yellow.
The normal thing would be to download it and then pass it through an image editor to get it to turn yellow. But in unDraw you can make it automatic. Yes, you can't put more than one coloreven if you want In those cases you will have to use a program for it.
What to do after downloading the free illustrations
Once you have downloaded the illustrations, our recommendation is that you Save them in a folder inside the resources folder. That way you can have everything organized on your computer and, when you need them, you will find them easily.
Also include if any of these illustrations has any specific need, for example if the author must be named, if it can be used commercially or not, etc.
When you work with them, sometimes you will have to treat it, that is, place the colors, brightness, contrasts well... Normally, free illustrations have the problem that they are not finished or that they arrive with pale colors and with some quick modifications you can get a great effect.
Of course, later you will have to play with it to adapt it to your design.
Do you have more pages to get free illustrations? You can tell us about them in the comments.