Looking for icons or illustrations? There are plenty of resources available, whether free or from paid libraries. However, if you're looking for rare icons or illustrations, you may need to create them yourself. Fortunately, there's an AI drawing tool called "Recraft.ai" that can solve this problem. It can automatically and effectively generate vector illustrations, icon graphics, and 3D icons. Additionally, it allows for fine-tuning and editing of details using AI commands. The best part is that this tool is free.
All you need to do is enter the desired description of the icon, and it will generate multiple versions for you to choose from. If you're not satisfied with certain parts of the result, you can select those parts individually and regenerate them until you get the desired icon. It's somewhat similar to the AI retouching feature in the recent Adobe Photoshop Bota version. And here's the coolest part: the generated icon graphics and illustrations from "Recraft.ai" can be downloaded as scalable vector image files, making them even more convenient for modifications.
Category: Design Materials
HeritageType
This is a website that specializes in providing vintage resources and fonts. There are both free and paid resources available, and no account registration is required to download them. Simply click on "FREE DOWNLOADS" in the top left corner of the website to download.
Using old elements in design can bring unique advantages, such as a sense of history and tradition that can help establish brand trust and uniqueness. In a generation where design styles are constantly changing, resources with a sense of era are relatively rare and can attract more attention and emotional resonance. These resources can be edited and used for personal or commercial purposes, but cannot be redistributed to other websites or resold commercially. It is recommended to register as a member to receive notifications for new free materials, and to potentially receive discount coupons for unique image libraries or exclusive fonts in the future.
Mockups-Design.com
This is a website that provides product models and design resources, with a variety of free and high-quality product models, scenes, and design resources available for designers to quickly and easily create impressive designs. These design models are actually mockups that allow creators to quickly place their work on various media, such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, computer screens, posters, business cards, brochures, etc., and each product model offers multiple scenes and styles. The author is a graphic designer, and each model has been meticulously designed and adjusted by him, with very high design quality that can be used for personal or commercial purposes. Additionally, the author has another website for packaging materials, which will be shared next time.
Vintage Stock Photos
Vintage Stock Photos is a website that offers high-quality, restored vintage images provided by professional photographers. The website provides a variety of image sizes and resolutions for designers to choose from based on their specific needs.
The website covers a wide range of themes including people, buildings, landscapes, artifacts, and artwork. Users can register for a free account to download images, which can be used for personal or commercial purposes but cannot be redistributed. This website is useful for designers, history enthusiasts, and artists looking for suitable materials for their projects such as books, posters, advertisements, product packaging, or creative artwork.
Iconhunt
Icon Hunt is a website that offers free icon downloads, with over 150,000 open-source SVG vector icons. Designers can easily access high-quality icon materials through this website and use them for personal or commercial purposes. The website provides various types of icon resources, including commonly used icons, social media logos, arrows, multimedia symbols, UI icons, and more. There are also professional icons in specific fields such as design, travel, and healthcare. These materials provide SVG web syntax directly, allowing you to copy it with just one click, which is very convenient for web designers. Of course, vector SVG file downloads are also available.
MockDrop
Mockdrop is a free contextual image composition tool that allows users to synthesize their own images and models into a new composite image. It helps you quickly create and share prototypes of applications and provides a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows you to easily create prototypes of applications, including mobile phones, computers, smartwatches, and more. This process does not require any knowledge or technical skills of drawing software. You can simply upload materials and drag and drop images. In addition, Mockdrop's website provides a library resource that includes many common UI elements such as buttons, text boxes, and drop-down menus. You can use these elements to create your application prototypes and save them to your account. You can even share your prototypes with others and get feedback and suggestions from other users.
Illustration Kit: Free illustrations
"Illustration Kit" is a free material website provided by two designers, khushmeensidhu & dilpreetsio. The website offers a wide range of consistent and minimalistic illustrations that are suitable for commercial websites or presentations. There are also over 200 background illustrations that can be combined and matched. All materials on the website can be downloaded for free and are licensed under CC0, which means they can be used for personal or commercial purposes without any attribution or registration required. The website also provides vector SVG and PNG formats for download. Users can also use their Figma plugin to directly apply their work. Additionally, users can also subscribe to their illustration updates via email for free.
Storyset
"Storyset" is a graphic library website that provides a range of illustrated styles, with each element of the illustration separated into layers. Users can use the online editing tools provided on the website to customize the colors and backgrounds of the elements according to their preference. In addition to static illustrations, the website also allows users to animate the elements within the illustrations using pre-defined animation effects such as basic movement, entrance and loop effects. The illustrations can be downloaded in vector SVG format, PNG, GIF, MP4 and other video formats, the site also offers a Figma plugin to facilitate design and production. The downloaded images can be used for personal or commercial use.
Generated Humans
This online material website, "Generated Humans", is launched by the GENERATED PHOTOS website. It contains full-body portrait photos that are automatically generated by AI. These photos look very similar to real human faces and full-body portraits, but they are actually works calculated by AI. With such excellent calculation abilities, it generates many lifelike human faces and full-body images, regardless of whether they are male or female, or have different skin colors such as yellow or black. There are also various age groups of portraits. And these photos can be freely downloaded by users. The coolest thing is that users can download up to 100,000 images at once, although the resolution is low, 256x512 and the background is white, but it's enough, if you want to get advanced, you can get PNG images with higher resolution through payment.
StockAI
Obtaining AI pictures has become more convenient than ever. In addition to calculating the pictures ourselves, we can also obtain beautiful pictures drawn by AI through other channels. 'StockAI' is a website that provides a library of AI-generated images. We just need to enter the description of the picture scene we want, and 'StockAI' will accurately help us find the matching image. If the picture you want does not exist, it can also help you produce an AI image. Unregistered users can download small-sized images for free, with a resolution of 512x768px. They can be used for personal or commercial use without the need to mark the source. If you need a larger size image, you will need to pay extra. To generate more unique images that only you can use, you need to register as a member. Each member has 3 free chances to generate images. Of course, 'StockAI' also provides other paid options.
Peeps
The website that I am going to introduce this time is called "Peeps." It is a website that specializes in generating Q version 3D personal avatars. The images produced on this website can be used completely free of charge for personal or commercial use. On the website, you can automatically generate 3D images, and you can make fine adjustments to the facial features and styling of the image. When you download and save the image, you can get two 1000x1000 pixel PNG files at once, one with a background and the other without, which can be used in different situations. Additionally, neither of these images will have watermarks. Lastly, I want to remind you that even though "Peeps" provides free downloads, they cannot be resold.
Artvee
Artvee is a website that specializes in collecting artworks from around the world, and focuses on collecting painting artworks that belong to public property. This means that the artworks on this website can be used for personal and commercial use, and do not need to be marked for the source. The website not only allows users to search for artworks by keywords, but also to find artworks by category, such as paintings, murals, illustrations, posters, etc. The website also provides high-resolution images for users to download for free. The website's way of earning revenue is that if users want to download the highest resolution images, they will have to pay a fee to them, so that they can continue to maintain the website, which means spending money to save you the time of collecting artworks.