Free Quality Stock Illustration?

Hi, I do alot of creative resource stuff for my websites. I recently have been looking online for free quality stock illustration and graphic stuff. I've found that istockphoto is high quality but so expensive. I'm having trouble finding any good free stuff or even p2p kind of stuff. Does anyone have any suggestions for good sites they might know of. Could be free, great low prices, or p2p image and illustration sharing. Thanks.

 

take a look here this should help-www.morguefile.com

Just understand you need to read the copyright on each picture sometime the creater wants an e-mail just saying that ur using it and for what.. Kinda a thing to get off on lol

 

Another great free photo resource is sxc.hu - they are free to join and just be sure you read the TOS - some are pretty general, others want permission to use their pics. Most are without restrictions other than those set by the site.

 

deviantart.com or http://www.sxc.hu/

those are the ones i use and i love them <3

 

sometimes... if you look through alot of stuff....
even on iStockPhoto.com you will find SOME illustrations at the $1. mark
instead of the usual $5, $10, $20 per for illustrations....

the trick is... not to assume cause it's an illustration that it is in the
$5-$20 range... click the image to go to page 2 as if you were going
to purchase it... and you will see the price per there... pleasant surprise
when you are on a great illustration and the price shows as just $1.
when I see those... I grab them even if I don't need that image right
then for a site.... cause it may not still be available - when you go back...
that's happened before when I saved the url to some...

live and learn...

smile...

they are my favorite stock house by far....

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

 

Thanks for this information guys, i really appreciate it. More suggestions are welcome as well, can never have too many good sources.

 

You can look for creative common photographs at flickr.com (but check the license first )

 

Thanks, i'm looking mainly for illustration and graphics. I realize those are a great source of photos. From this thread i now know that istockphoto and stockexpert have the best display of illustration, however, I guess you just cant find quality free illustration anywhere. Which makes sense i guess. The ones who make them put them in places where they can make money off of them.

I also noticed that the sites that have the good illustration all have duplicate content so pretty much one site fits all.