Resources for Artists & Content Creators

I use resources from all over the internet to create covers and graphics, and to teach myself new techniques. These are some of the best sites I have found and used for completely free photos, fonts, textures, vectors, clipart, tutorials and more. Be warned - I thought I had kicked my font problem until I found DealJumbo ;).

Some have thousands of things, some just a few, but they all have something useful. I hope others may find them useful to. And ALL RESOURCES are 100% legal.

If anyone has any to add, please do comment - always glad of new resources!

If I find more I will add to the list.

Royalty Free, Use for Anything (Personal & Professional) Image Sites

• Pexels.com - best site out there at the moment IMHO
• Rene Asmussen on Pexels.com - some seriously great posed photos perfect for book covers and promo material
• Unsplash.com
• Pixabay.com - sometimes have to weed through some crap to get to the good stuff
• UnrestrictedStock.com
• StockPhotosForFree.com
• NegativeSpace.co
• Picography.co
• Gratisography.com - quirky
• DesignerPics.com
• NY Public Library
• StockSnap.io
• DealJumbo.com
• SpoonGraphics.co.uk - some free (great stuff), some for paying members
• FreePik.com
• All-Free-Download.com

Textures

• LostAndTaken.com
• Textures.com
• TextureKing.com
• Texturer.com
• DealJumbo.com
• SpoonGraphics.co.uk - some free (great stuff), some for paying members

Clipart

• Clker.com

Fonts (some free for commercial use - some only personal use)

• DaFont.com
• 1001FreeFonts.com
• FontSpace.com
• DealJumbo.com

Vectors

• VectorArts.net
• DealJumbo.com
• FreePik.com
• All-Free_Download.com

Tutorials

• Line-Of-Action.com - drawing tutorials
• SpoonGraphics.co.uk - Photoshop & Illustrator

Other

• Mandelbulb.com - fractal generator
• Palette Generator
• ObsidianDawn.com - Photoshop brushes (credit required)
• SensiStock - pose reference
• Pixeden.com - Photoshop mock-ups
• CoverVault.com - Free Photoshop mock-ups - many of various book displays - brilliant for author marketing
• DealJumbo.com - mockups
• Incompetech - Royalty Free Music - Kevin Macleod creates royalty free music for which liscenses can be purchases or credit given under Creative Commons.

Cats are such regal animals ;)

I so post things other than pictures of my cats, I promise, it's just with a new kitty in the house the camera is out a lot at the moment :)

Fi-fi loves having her tummy tickled :) There would have been more piccies, but Rob's camera ran out of charge.

Of course Amber would never stoop so low (or at least not when there is a camera around :)). She is always a princess!

Amber's first trip into the garden.

Amber has had her first foray into the garden :). We’re letting her out in little supervised bursts at the moment to make sure all the security measures work (we can’t let her roam due to the fact she is part serval and many savannahs try to range like their wild cousins and get lost).

We like to call the second to last photo the supermodel post :) and the tongue is out on the last one because she was eating grass.

The foray ended when one of the local yappy dogs went past on its walk. We heard her growl for the first time; I don’t think yappy dogs are to her liking :).

New Piccie of Amber

I tried to take one where you can see how tall she is, because when she lies down she curls a lot. She obliged by posing in the window for me :).

We've had her two weeks today and I can't imagine the house without her any more. She is so talkative and she likes to know where everyone is when she's moving around. I even got a head butt yesterday while we were sitting on the floor together playing :D.