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30+ Websites With Open-Source Illustrations

Are you a beginner in the world of illustration? Or looking to get some illustration work, but don’t know what you want? This list of the most vital styles of illustration is a good place to start.

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June 24, 2025
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All of these free illustration websites allow you to download the images for free. 

However, some offer open-source licenses meaning you’re free to use the work as you like. Others make it mandatory for you to attribute the designer. So, be sure to check for commercial use rights.

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1. Pixels Market

We’re a design-as-a-service company, dedicated to making good design available for all.

A part of that mission is our open-source illustration and icon library Pixels Market. With over 15,000 designs, you can find the best graphics for your social media, presentations, web design, and more.

2. Pixabay

Pixabay offers free illustrations, stock images, and vector icons. All content is released under Creative Commons.

3. Freepik

Freepik provides a mix of free and premium illustrations. While the premium content requires attribution, he open-source illustrations are free to use in any project.

Freepik also offers an AI illustrations generator that you can use to create custom illustrations or mix and match your favorite ones.

4. SVGRepo

SVGRepo specializes in scalable vector graphics (SVG) that are free to download and use. Ideal for web development, app design, and presentations.

5. Open Peeps

Open Peeps offers hand-drawn, customizable free illustrations. Perfect for adding a human touch to your digital projects, presentations, or social media posts. 

6. DrawKit

DrawKit provides a library of free, customizable vector illustrations. Ideal for web design, app development, and presentations.

7. Blush

Blush has fun free illustrations, if you want to add artistic elements to your websites, apps, and design projects.

8. Icons8

Icons8 provides a variety of themed icons available for free with attribution. Stay on top of the latest icon trends and choose the one that suits your brand design.

9. IRA Design

IRA Design provides a collection of free illustrations, suitable for web design, presentations, and marketing materials.

10. Humaaans

Humaaans provides mix-and-match illustrations of humans, allowing you to create custom scenes.

11. Reshot

Reshot offers free illustrations, videos, and music for commercial use. The illustrations cover various themes and are suitable for diverse creative projects.

12. Inkscape

Inkscape is a gallery of free vector illustrations that can be customized for web design, branding, and presentations.

13. SVGBackgrounds

SVGBackgrounds offers a variety of SVG-based background illustrations that are free to use. It's a great resource that you can easily use and edit with design tools.

14. Iconduck

Iconduck offers a collection of free, quirky illustrations for commercial and personal use.

15.Lapa

Lapa provides a curated collection of free illustrations for commercial use. I really like their Transhumans and the hand-drawn Sad Snowman illustrations pack.

16. Designify

Designify offers a library of free illustrations, including vector graphics and icons. It also has a cool photo editor, perfect for social media design.

17. Illlustrations

Illlustrations provides a curated collection of free illustrations for commercial use, in a variety of themes.

18. unDraw

Browse on unDraw and find the images that fit your needs. Download and use the on-the-fly color image generation to match your brand identity.

19. Skribbl

Skribbl offers the whole open-source illustrations kit. You get human-made, high-quality, royalty-free illustrations that you can use for any commercial or personal project.

20. Illustrations by Absurd

Illustrations by Absurd provides a unique selection of quirky and abstract illustrations that are free illustrations, suitable for modern and creative brands. 

21. Delesign

Delesign offers a free illustration library, providing diverse graphics for personal and commercial use. You can download them in various formats. 

22. 404 Illustrations

404 Illustrations specializes in page-not-found (404 error) illustrations, offering a variety of creative and humorous designs. It’s a great free resource to bookmark if you’re making a website.

23. ISO Republic

ISO Republic is a collection of free graphic illustrations and stock photos. So, it’s another great resource for web design projects.

24. Free Illustrations

Free Illustrations provides a growing repository of open-source illustrations for both personal and commercial use.

25. IconScout

IconScout offers a set of simple and clean illustrations that are free to use. The illustrations are versatile and can be incorporated into various design projects.

26. Good Stuff No Nonsense

Good Stuff No Nonsense provides illustrations without the nonsense. The collection includes free hand-drawn illustrations for commercial use.

27. Toools Design 

Toools Design offers a collection of websites that offer free and open-source illustrations, in various themes.

28. Open Doodles 

Open Doodles offers a unique set of hand-drawn, customizable illustrations. Created by designer Pablo Stanley, these open-source doodles are perfect for adding a playful touch.

29. Shapefest

Shapefest offers a curated collection of open-source 3D illustrations focusing on geometric shapes and patterns.

30. Smash Illustrations 

Smash Illustrations is yet another library of free illustrations for diverse themes and in different styles.

31. Isometric Love 

Isometric Love specializes in isometric-style open-source illustrations, which are predominantly used in digital design.

32. Vecteezy

Vecteezy provides a library of free vector illustrations in PSD, SVG and PNG files. Most designs are free but some require a subscription.

33. Storyset

Storyset offers various colorful open-source illustrations inspired by people and their actions. These illustrations, available for free, can add a unique and recognizable element to your design work.

34. Big Heads

Big Heads lets you generate random characters for your apps and games. You can combine expressions, hairstyles, clothes, and colors and create many unique characters. 

35. Scribbles

If you need a free vector illustrations library that consists only of hand-drawn graphics, then ain’t no place better than Scribbles

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Getting open-source illustrations can help you save money and also expedite your work. However, the biggest drawback of using a free illustrations pack is the lack of on-brand customizations.

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