Illustration images are widely used in modern web designs, be it of desktop apps or of mobile apps. Not only do they diversify your UI design, but they also improve user engagement and user experience on your web apps when properly used.
Apart from websites and apps, illustration stock images can be alternatively used in presentations, children’s books, PowerPoints.
Today we bring you the list of top websites that offer illustrations for your web apps. Whether you are graphic designers, web app developers, artists, product manager, project manager, digital marketers, digital assets sellers, comic lovers, or cartoonists you’ve come to the right place. Most of these illustrations are free for commercial use without attribution needed.
1. unDraw
unDraw has been around for quite a while. It was created by Katerina Limpitsouni in 2017. unDraw is a library of constantly updated free open source illustrations which cover miscellaneous aspects including but not limited to daily life, sports, technology, nature, people and scene-based illustrations. The illustrations on unDraw are exquisitely crafted, which makes it perfect for your web designs and apps. In addition to the variety of the illustration images, unDraw offers free bicolor handcrafts ( hand drawn black and custom color images ) as well.
unDraw provides a way to customize the illustrations and handcrafts to match your brand identity by picking color or input your own HEX color code from the color picker on the top right.
Downloads include both SVG and PNG files. You can also download the unDraw XD plugin which integrates the unDraw illustrations directly inside Adobe XD as a bonus if you are an Adobe user and there are several other creative tools for you to work with.
Free for Commercial Use
Go To unDrawAttribution: Not Required
2. DrawKit
DrawKit is a collection of free illustrations and icons for modern UI designs. The categories of the illustrations on DrawKit range from Abstract to Animals, Social Media, Clothing & Fashion, Design & Art, Gaming, Education, Shopping & E-commerce, Events & Entertainment and Food & Drink and so on. There are both monochrome illustrations and multi-colored illustrations. And now they provide illustration packs that you can download in the form of a bundle of of a certain topic all at once. Most of the free illustrations come with SVG and PNG or JPG formats, while others even ships with Figma files.
As of the date this article was posted, there are 9 free outlined vector icon packs available for download with SVG/JPG/PNG files.
Free for Commercial Use
Attribution: Not Required
Go To DrawKitRead their full license to see what can’t be done with the illustrations.
3. Open Peeps
Open Peeps, which was created by Pablo Stanley, is a second-to-none hand-drawn illustration library to create scenes of people. These free illustrations are like building blocks made of vector arms, legs, and emotions. You can mix and match them to make a whopping 580,000+ possible combinations. Variable assets are: facial expressions, clothing, hairdos, standing poses, sitting poses, accessories, facial hair, color of ink and background.
The free illustrations come both multicolor and monochrome. You can use these free illustrations for figma creations, product illustration images, user flows, personas, storyboarding, invitations, comics, avatars, children’s books, web apps, whatever and wherever you like.
Available file formats: flat SVG and PNG asets, and Adobe XD plugin.
Free for Commercial Use
Go To Open PeepsAttribution: Not Required
4. Scale by Flexiple
Scale is an illustrations project created by Flexiple that claims to add a new vector illustration each day. As always, Scale offers single-color as well as multi-color illustrations for your design projects and both kinds have the flexibility to choose custom color to cater to your brand color. For multi-colored illustrations, you can customize up to 3 variant colors with 4 default suggested color palettes.
What makes Scale even more awesome is the large collection of FREE illustration packs and you can download the packs directly and they are completely free.
They offer SVG and PNG file downloads for each illustration.
Free for Commercial Use
Attribution: Not Required
Go To ScaleDO NOT sell the illustrations or packs.
5. ManyPixels
ManyPixels is a Singapore-based company that offers more than 2500 royalty-free illustrations that can power up your UI designs. These beautifully crafted illustrations can be embedded in your blog posts, newsletters, social media posts, on your landing pages or used as your profile background and the like.
The illustration stock images are clearly categorized under popular categories like Tech, Web Design, Profession, Shopping, Science, Entertainment, Marketing. What’s more, they can be filtered out by their types ( Outline, Monochromatic, Flatline, Isometric, Two-color ) and yes, you can customize the main color with your own color codes to better match the design of your apps.
Download formats are: SVG and PNG.
Free for Commercial Use
Attribution: Not Required
Go To ManyPixelsDO NOT compile anything from ManyPixels to replicate a similar or competing service and DO NOT distribute the assets in Packs or otherwise.
6. IllustrationKit
IllustrationKit was a free premium vector illustrations collection designed and crafted by Khushmeen and Dilpreet who update the library weekly ( Seems they aren’t adding new illustrations and characters any more? ). The illustrations cover mainly customizable scene-based illustrations and characters which can be used everywhere like onboarding, landing pages, email, and social media. The main colors of both illustrations and characters can be customized as per your own preferences to match your brand conception and there are 3 skin tones for your choose from for the characters.
Downloads include SVG and PNG files. But you can get the whole library as an illustration pack or use their figma plugin
If you are interested in creating your own unique custom characters based on theirs, use their open source Character Creator to mix and match to get more than 500 possible combinations. The Creator includes over 50 pre-made characters, 12 character faces (both front and back), sitting poses, standing front and back poses and also jump poses.
Free for Commercial Use
Attribution: Not Required
Go To IllustrationKitRead their full license to see what’s not allowed to do with the illustrations.
7. Free Vector Illustrations by FreePik
Freepik, an online image platform that offers countless digital assets and graphic resources, currently features more than 50 illustration galleries including but not limited to plant illustrations, festival illustrations, abstract illustration images and much more, each of which contains hundreds of collections and hundreds of thousands of illustration images.
You can use these vector illustrations free for commercial and personal projects for unlimited number of times. But attribution is required.
Available download formats: AI, EPS, JPG. (See avaiable formats on individual asset page for details)
License: Free Licensee for free illustrations
Attribution: Required
Go To FreePikRead their full license to see what’s not allowed to do with the illustrations.
8. SketchValley
Yet another awesome library of free illustrations for UI design and UX design. Sketchvalley features vector illustration images of diverse topics, including delivery, yoga, dance, UX/UI, payment, 3d, fitnes, medical, pet care, etc. The illustrations are quite vibrant in colors.
Available download formats are: SVG , JPG, PNG (Note: not every illustration has 3 formats). Some of the free illustrations come with raw AI file.
Free for Commercial Use
Go To SketchvalleyLicense: CC0
9. Humaaans
Humaaans is another great work of Pablo Stanley’s, it is a design library for designers and developers to mix and match vector illustrations to create personalized graphic designs to match their web apps and brand identity. Illustrations remixed out of these elements are perfect for using scenarios of all occasions, for instance, desktop apps, mobile apps, landing pages, presentations, children’s books, notes, PowerPoints, Documents, etc.
Fiddle with these free illustrations with InVision Studio to get design inspirations.
Free for Commercial Use
Go To HumaaansLicense: CC0
10. LukaszAdam
Lukasz Adam is a self-tought illustration designer and developer who offers free illustrations images that are free for commercial and personal use. In his collection of free illutrations, you’ll find hundreds of differently themed images like shopping illustrations, phone icons, character avatar icons, covid-19 icons, bitcoin icons, space rocket illustrations, e-commerce icons, landscape illustrations and many more for you to discover. Use them in your designs and web apps to attract more visitors, increase your conversions and boost your sales.
Formats offered in the free illustrations collection: SVG, PNG, JPEG.
Free for Commercial Use
Go To LukaszAdamLicense: CC0