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Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

#81

So it's like https://undraw.co/illustrations

This is my favorite of these collections. Consistent style, not too many different fills (to change colors), and quite easy to mix and match different illustrations.

Years ago when I discovered undraw I thought so too. Now, after seeing hundreds of them on various websites, the site of them instantly sours my perception of the brand and cheapens the perceived quality. I understand why they are so over-used though. Illustration is hard!

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

#83

Shameless plug, we have a good set of illustrations on https://www.storyset.com/ . The big difference is StorySet illustrations can be animated and the styles are different. Both products are quite complementary.

Very nice. Is there an option to pay for illustrations to avoid having to place an attribution link?

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

#84
post #72

Why does every Silicon Valley company have these creepy looking people on their websites?

Like another commenter said, it's awful: they're visually lifeless and they don't add value in terms of being illustrative of the idea their associated text block is meant to convey, nor do they catch the eye in the first place.

You might as well have a lorem-ipsum cat picture in their place, since it has about the same utility.

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

#89

Sorry to be a Scrooge, but I wish people would stop doing this. It's hard enough to make a living as an illustrator in the age of digital photography and photobashing without having to compete with generic (which I mean both descriptively and—sorry—pejoratively) illustration libraries. This stuff undermines the discipline and suggests that its skills are easily acquired and the work is easily done, so there's no reas…

I regret that I can only upvote this once. Art is my job and I feel much the same way. I have managed to find a set of clients whose desires are better met by custom art with a distinct personal style but, y'know, it'd be nice if "shitting out some Corporate Memphis at a price point appropriate to a startup sitting on piles of VC money" was an option for me and a bunch of other illustrators too. We got bills to pay.

Re: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

#90
post #8

Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free? Have companies just become a leech on public with tax evasion and discount and private?

>Why free? Surely you don't do everything for monetary compensation? Maintaining a contact, helping a friend move, having a guest, teaching someone something, people do all sorts of stuff for free. Just because feel like it, inclined to the thing itself, promoting their other work, wanting to make the world a better place. Ruin others' similar efforts, to emerge as a monopoly and excercise larger control[0]. There's…

I would say that I think you missed the part where I wrote "Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free?"

To recap, I would help a friend move, because he is.. well, my friend? I have a guest... because I invited him and he is not going to take the food I prepared to sell it outside my house? And you can of course promote your work, people have been doing that since ever, you can do that with also licenses where people can see but not sell

But yeah I think I didn't put enough emphasis at this point on "Why someone should go to such lengths in order to make someone money for free?" where the important idea is "To make someone money"

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