Art (Libre)

Creative works that are mainly visual.

This page only shows free, libre and open tabletop art. For a list that includes semi-libre (that is to say, noncommercial and verbatim works), see Art (Common Content).

General

Art

• 2013 Open Source Calendar ● 'Featuring all your favourite Open Source Heroes and Heroines, these are some of the people who have done most to exemplify or further the cause of a more open, collaborative or more freedom-conscious approach to working, thinking and licensing.'
• 365 Sketches ● A blog with a new sketch each day.
• AncientBeast ● Awesome Turn Based Strategy. Master Your Beasts!
• Battle for Wesnoth ● 'The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.'
• Big Buck Bunny ● A whimsical movie where three rodents get their just deserts.
• Card Stories ● A Dixit-like multiplayer online game.
• Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ● 35,000 scans of illuminated manuscripts.
• Composition Generators ● Generates collections of stripes or dots or blank canvases.
• Dice Icons ● Dice icons.
• Doodles & Dragons ● 'n celebration of finishing my year-long effort to draw a cartoon of every single monster in the 2nd Edition AD&D Monstrous Manual, I made a PDF containing a one page World of Dungeons hack along with every one of my cartoons.'
• Dscript ● A new Roman script.
• Elephants Dream ● A short and surreal movie about an old man and his grandson.
• Entypo ● 'Entypo is a set of 250+ carefully crafted pictograms. The package contains an icon font'
• etcc ● 'Remixing the visual arts'
• Feedback Loops in Game Design ● An infographic by Daniel Solis.
• FreeSouls.cc ● Photos of Joi Ito and writings from others.
• Gimp Magazine ● 'The goal of this publication is to promote GIMP and related open source software.'
• Glitch the Game ● 2D MMORPG art assets now public domain.
• Heroes Vs. Villains ● A collection of 'photos' of supervillains.
• Libre Graphics Magazine ● A magazine focused on GIMP, Inkscape and other open source graphics software — as well as the art created from that software.
• Maki ● "A clean point of interest icon set made especially for cartography."
• Mimi and Eunice ● A webcomic which often covers copyright-related issues.
• Nothing To Hide ● An "anti-stealth" computer game - you have to be complicit in your own surveillance!
• Open Adventure ● 'Open Adventure is a full-featured tabletop adventure game that offers out-of-box support for medieval fantasy and science-fiction expeditions.'
• #PHONAR ● Undergraduate photography class.
• PICOL ● A pictoral communication language.
• Pixelated New Orleans Homes ● "A collection of 100 pixelated images for you to download and use for whatever you want."
• Public Domain Textures ● What it says.
• RecordAGrave ● Photographs and transcriptions of tombstones.
• Sintel ● A brief fantasy film about a girl's love for her dragon.
• Spears of the Dawn Art Pack ● 'These African-inspired artworks were created for the tabletop RPG Spears of the Dawn.'
• Spectrum of Rights ● A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licences work
• suicidegirls ● Content from their Flickr stream.
• The Camera Collection ● "A collection of 100 pixelated camera illustrations for anybody to download and use in whatever way they see fit."
• The Open Game Art Bundle ● 'We're the people behind some of the most popular web games. The web is meant to be an open landscape; being in this bundle is how we choose to honor this.'
• vessel.cc ● An art installation.
• Wuffle Comics ● Adventures of a kind-hearted wolf.

Sources of Art

• Project Gutenberg ● A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
• Public Domain Review ● Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
• Public Domain Super Heroes ● A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
• Ryzom Asset Repository ● 3D assets from the MMORPG Ryzom.
• Salvatore Scandurra ● An artist
• ScienceImage ● 'CSIRO has provided permission for anyone to freely use, repost and transform the collection’s 4000+ high definition images and videos. The library represents more than six decades worth of environmental, industrial, agricultural and technological research images.'
• Sketchfab ● 3D models for viewing and download.
• Spiral Graphics ● The makers of closed software Genetica.
• Surlalune Fairy Tales ● Scanned public domain illustrations.
• Telecanter ● A tabletop RPG website.
• The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries ● A collection of US Government photo libraries.
• The Comic Strip Library ● 'The Comic Strip Library is a digital library containing a collection of public domain comic strips.'
• The Free Motion Quilting Project ● A collection of designs for quilt patches.
• The Getty ● Public domain images.
• The Golden Years ● Public domain comics, gratis to view but difficult to download.
• Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase ● Free culture that has been chosen by the Ubuntu community.
• (un)Common Adventure Gallery ● Collection of free-to-publish genre illustrations.
• Unsplash ● "Free high-resolution stock photos"
• Wellcome Images ● ' Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images'
• WPClipart ● A collection of public domain clipart.

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3D Art

3D Art

• AncientBeast ● Awesome Turn Based Strategy. Master Your Beasts!

Sources of 3D Art

• Blend Swap ● 'Proudly the greatest repository of open source blends on the Tubes.'
• Open Game Art ● A community dedicated to providing art for open source video games.
• Ryzom Asset Repository ● 3D assets from the MMORPG Ryzom.
• Sketchfab ● 3D models for viewing and download.
• Spiral Graphics ● The makers of closed software Genetica.

Raster Art

Raster Art

• AncientBeast ● Awesome Turn Based Strategy. Master Your Beasts!
• Battle for Wesnoth ● 'The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.'
• Dice Icons ● Dice icons.
• The Open Game Art Bundle ● 'We're the people behind some of the most popular web games. The web is meant to be an open landscape; being in this bundle is how we choose to honor this.'

Sources of Raster Art

• Daniel Solis ● An artist and game designer.
• David Revoy ● David Revoy is a fantasy artist who has worked on the Blender movie projects.
• Jeff Preston ● An artist.
• Open Game Art ● A community dedicated to providing art for open source video games.
• (un)Common Adventure Gallery ● Collection of free-to-publish genre illustrations.

Vector Art

Vector Art

• Dice Icons ● Dice icons.
• Maki ● "A clean point of interest icon set made especially for cartography."
• The Open Game Art Bundle ● 'We're the people behind some of the most popular web games. The web is meant to be an open landscape; being in this bundle is how we choose to honor this.'

Sources of Vector Art

• Daniel Solis ● An artist and game designer.
• Game-icons.net ● 'Hundreds of free icons to customize and include in your games'
• Love Vector Free ● A repository of vector art.
• NounProject ● Simple vector images.
• Open Game Art ● A community dedicated to providing art for open source video games.

Photographs

Photographs

• FreeSouls.cc ● Photos of Joi Ito and writings from others.
• #PHONAR ● Undergraduate photography class.
• RecordAGrave ● Photographs and transcriptions of tombstones.
• suicidegirls ● Content from their Flickr stream.

Sources of Photographs

• 500px ● A site for photographs.
• Burningwell ● Public domain images (mostly photographs)
• Dane Carney ● A photographer, mainly of local bands.
• Doug Whitfield ● A free culture advocate.
• Flickr ● A photo hosting website.
• Freedom Porn ● Radical, 'ethical' porn created by amateurs.
• i-am-cc.org ● A third-party site that allows you to CC license your Instagram photos.
• NASA Images ● A collection of photographs from NASA.
• Ookaboo ● Ookaboo has collected nearly a million images of precisely defined topics such as places, people, species and products.
• Picdrome ● A collection of photos.
• Pixabay ● 'Find and share outstanding images'
• President of Russia ● The website of the President of the Russian Federation.
• ScienceImage ● 'CSIRO has provided permission for anyone to freely use, repost and transform the collection’s 4000+ high definition images and videos. The library represents more than six decades worth of environmental, industrial, agricultural and technological research images.'
• The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries ● A collection of US Government photo libraries.
• Unsplash ● "Free high-resolution stock photos"

Comics

Comics

• Mimi and Eunice ● A webcomic which often covers copyright-related issues.
• Spectrum of Rights ● A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licences work

Sources of Comics

• Comic Book Plus ● Gratis public domain comics.
• Digital Comic Museum ● Gratis public domain comics.
• Fury Comics ● Public domain comics for gratis viewing but difficult to download.
• Lunduke ● A game designer and comic creator.
• Public Domain Super Heroes ● A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
• The Comic Strip Library ● 'The Comic Strip Library is a digital library containing a collection of public domain comic strips.'
• The Golden Years ● Public domain comics, gratis to view but difficult to download.

Pixel Art

Pixel Artworks

• Battle for Wesnoth ● 'The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.'
• Pixelated New Orleans Homes ● "A collection of 100 pixelated images for you to download and use for whatever you want."
• The Camera Collection ● "A collection of 100 pixelated camera illustrations for anybody to download and use in whatever way they see fit."

Sources of Pixel Art

• Bill Brown ● A designer and artist.
• Liberated Pixel Cup Content ● The games and art produced by the Liberated Pixel Cup.
• MrBeastDesign ● An artist.

Textures

Textures

• Public Domain Textures ● What it says.

Sources of Textures