#free commercial use art

[freecommercialclipart]

Did you know you can use these WPA posters absolutely free. These posters were created for the Federal Works Progress Administration. These are great examples of mid-century graphic design and would be great for any design projects you have that need a retro feel. They're also great for inspiration.

You can find these WPA posters and many many more on the Library of Congress website.

#free clip art #free clipart #free commercial clip art #free commercial use art #graphic design #graphic designers #typography #illustrators #typographers #retro graphic design #vintage graphic design #vintage posters #retro posters #wpa posters #free wpa posters

[evegwood]

I've finally compiled a whole bunch of my conlangs and conscripts on my website! If you're interested in made up languages and alphabets, you can read my painfully detailed write-ups at evegwood.com/languages.

#conscripts #conlangs #languages are like the number one thing i think about other than comics #and you know how insane i am about comics #so you can imagine how absolutely nuts i get about languages #i am SO relieved to finally have this all in one place #instead of in several folders of loose paper #not art #these are NOT FREE FOR USE by the way!!!!! #it says on the website but #you may not use these for any public or commercial projects #pay me for that

[b4kuch1n]

Detail caps and design sheets for the Single String ver. module!

Most of these tidbits except for the base elements are fluid, esp. the patterns - it’s up to freehanding whatever fits on a piece-by-piece basis. The outer coat is a modernized nhật bình, and the instrument is a very heavily stylized đàn bầu.

#VOCALOID #hatsune miku #Hatsune Miku Single String Ver. #the whole time I was doing these I was like damn. would be awesome to know how to 3d sculpt right about now #well. I persisted. and now I shan't have to do it again. and that's what's important #anyways!! feel free to mess around and use this module 1/for non-commercial use and 2/with credits! #as is with my other fanstuff. and also please don't edit my art directly. thats it go wild have fun #okay. I will go out on a little thang tomorrow. so now I must sleep #have a good night lads! I will sleep well tonight now that I've had her. now that she's here. excellent night for me

[galway-bae]

for anyone who wants a clean + full size version of that shirt design here it is! do what thou wilt etc

#metalocalypse #(sort of) #I don't think I can use these fonts for Commercial Purposes :( but #I CAN post the graphic for free so here she is #mixed martial arts and crafts #anyway if I were gonna sell this I'd fix the wonky spacing on that bottom font. au tism.

[zachhazardvaupen]

Only days left to get 50% off my Royalty Free Spot Art Pack!

67 pieces so far and counting. Usually $50, right now $25!

#Ttrpg Art #Royalty Free #Asset Pack #Spot Art #Commercial Use

[vampylily]

okay now that a band has been drawn and quartered at the town square i hope all other adjacent bands take note and Don't Do That with AI. (fuck, if it's not actual respect for artists, at least let the public hanging be what stops them.)

#ngl this happening was inevitable #i know even having fan art submission contests are iffy #bc it's free labor being done by fans and if art is publically/commercially used they should be compensated fairly and stuff #but even that is better than using AI #vampylily.txt

[pidgeonprince]

Queer Love Heals! ⚧

High quality files here

#queer #trans #gay #artists on tumblr #queer art #i made this drawing to print stickers for myself #but theyre free to use for everyone #as long as you dont use them for commercial or hateful reasons

[feyinvestigations]

Doodle dump upon ye

#not described #my art #notsocreative #go gonzo go! #also the candy one is a seamless pattern feel free to use it #<-as long as it is for non commercial purposes

[friendlystarfruit]

free art, art requests OPEN (doodles - fully rendered depends how busy I am see blog for details, may not get everybody but I usually get 80 percent done as im a tiny art blog and still learning to draw))

#free art #art request #not for commercial use (without permission) other than that requests are yours (just try and remember to credit me for reposts c= #its free but you can tip if you like ( I never pressure tho) #also do art trades #art trade

[ed-nygma]

Wondering if I'm going to get downvoted for this.

#People need to realize that artists aren't angry because AI can generate funny images #Artists are angry because their own works are being used as base assets for FREE and for COMMERCIAL ENDS #+ bc there are people who are using AI on their portfolios or posting stuff to art websites and taking credit despite not making #...it or even meaningfully altering it in any way. #also Reddit user reveal 🤮

[freecommercialclipart]

Here's a selection of Thanksgiving themed free commercial use clipart and stock photos available on Pixabay. This is just the tip of the iceberg so go check them out if you still need Thanksgiving or fall themed graphics for your Turkey-Day designs.

Free Thanksgiving stock photos and illustrations on Pixabay

#free stock photos #free commercial use art #free clipart #thanksgiving clipart #thanksgiving illustrations #thanksgiving photos #free thanksgiving clipart #graphic artists #free clip art #graphic design #graphic designers #free commercial clip art #illustrators #free vector files #free stock images

[valodia]

Waaaa someone bought my RPG m.aker V.X A.ce assets!!!!!! ;w; Wtf wtf wtf wtf etc

#lodia sayings #sitting here thinking to myself nothing i create has any value etc and then someone give me 5 dullars...... #probably the first time my art grants me money too tbh #i forgot how these things work so it only gives me 2.92 dollars but still its mostly the fact somebody cares enough to buy that makes me ha #py especially considering that you can get them for free (but not use them commercially then)

[theheathergreen]

(via Free Download: 2 Commercial Use Black And White Smoke Jpg Backgrounds – HG Designs)

#free backgrounds #free textures #free illustrations #free wall art #free sublimation #commercial use

[batboyblog]

Copy Right and Public Domain in 2024

Happy 2024 all! its also Public Domain Day! a magical holiday here in America where things enter the public domain. Works published in the year 1928 (or 95 years ago!) have entered the public domain, which means they belong to us, all of us, the public!

Mickey's Back!

Yes! I'm sure you've heard, but Mickey Mouse (and Minnie Mouse too) is entering the Public Domain today. This has been news for a few years and indeed Disney's lobbying in the late 1990s is why our copy right term is SO long. So what exactly is now public domain?

Most people know about Mickey's first appearance Steamboat Willie, but a second short film, Plane Crazy was also released in 1928 so will also be public domain. So what's public? well these two films first of all, you're allowed to play them, upload them to YouTube or whatever without paying Disney. In theory you'll be allowed to cut and sample them, have them playing in the background of your movie etc. Likewise in theory the image of Mickey and Minnie as they appear (thats important) in these films will be free to use as well as Mickey's character as he appears in these works will be free to use. Now Mickey's later and more famous appearance

will still be protected. Famously the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that Sherlock Holmes couldn't be nice, smile, or not hate women in works because they still held the copyright on the short stories where he first did those things even though 90% of Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain. It's very likely Disney will assert similar claims over Mickey, claiming much of his personality first appeared in works still copyrighted.

Finally there's copyright vs trademark. Copyright is total ownership of a piece of media and all the ideas that appear in it, copyright has a limited set term and expires. Trademark is more limited and only applies to things used to market and sell a product. You can have a Coke branded vending machine in your movie if you want, but it couldn't appear anywhere in the trailer for your movie as thats you marketing your movie.

Where trademark ends and copyright begins and how trademarked something in the public domain is allowed to be are all unsettled areas of law and clearly Disney in the last few years as been aggressively pushing its trademark not just to Mickey in general but Steamboat Willie Mickey in particular

Ultimately the legal rights and wrongs of this might not matter so much since few people have the money and legal resources of the Walt Disney corporation so they might manage to maintain a de facto copyright on Mickey through legal intimidation, but maybe not?

And Tigger Too!

All the talk about Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie has sadly overshadowed other MAJOR things entering the public domain today. Most people are aware Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in 2022, but they might not realize his beloved friend Tigger didn't. Thats because Tigger didn't appear till A. A. Milne's second (and last) book of Pooh short stories, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

Much like Mickey Mouse only what appears in The House at Pooh Corner is public domain so the orange bouncy boy from the 1960s Disney cartoon is still on lock down. But the A. A. Milne original as illustrated by E. H. Shepard is free for you to use in fiction or art. His friend Winnie the Pooh has made a number of appearances since being freed, most notably in a horror movie, but also a Mint Mobile commercial so maybe Tigger too will have a lot of luck in the public domain.

Other works:

Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Peter Pan is a strange case, even though the play was first mounted in 1904, and the novelization (Peter and Wendy) was published in 1911, The script for the play was not published till 1928 (confusing!) meaning while the novel as been public domain for years the play (which came first) hasn't been, but now it is and people are welcome to mount productions of it.

Millions of Cats

The oldest picture book still in print, did you own a copy growing up? (I did)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The iconic porn novel that was at the center of a number of groundbreaking obscenity cases in the 1960s and helped establish your right to free speech.

All Quiet on the Western Front and The Threepenny Opera in their original German (but you can translate them if you want), The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf will also be joining us in the public domain along with any and all plays, novels, and books published in 1928

for Films we have The Man Who Laughs who's iconic image inspired the Joker

Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, Should Married Men Go Home? the first Laurel and Hardy movie, Lights of New York the first "all talking" movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, as well as The Last Command and Street Angel the first films to win Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively will all be entering public domain

For Musical Compositions (more on that in a moment) we've got

Mack the Knife by Bertolt Brecht, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) by Cole Porter, Sonny Boy by George Gard DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson, Empty Bed Blues by J. C. Johnson, and Makin’ Whoopee! by Gus Khan are some of the notables but any piece of music published in 1928 is covered

Any art work published in 1928, which might include works by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edward Hopper, and André Kertész will enter the public domain, we are sure those that M. C. Escher's Tower of Babel will be in the public domain

Swan Song, Public Domain and recorded music

While most things are covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, none of the copyright acts covered recordings you see when American copyright law was first written recordings did not exist and so through its many amendings no one fixed this problem, movies were treated like plays and artwork, but recorded sound wasn't covered by any federal law. So all sound recordings from before 1972 were governed by a confusing mess of state level laws making it basically impossible to say what was public and what was under copyright. In 2017 Congress managed to do something right and passed the Music Modernization Act. Under the act all recordings from 1922 and before would enter the public domain in 2022. After taking a break for 2023, all sound recordings made in 1923 have entered the public domain today on January 1st 2024, these include.

Charleston by James P. Johnson

Yes! We Have No Bananas (recorded by a lot artists that year)

Who’s Sorry Now by Lewis James

Down Hearted Blues by Bessie Smith

Lawdy, Lawdy Blues by Ida Cox

Southern Blues and Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey

That American Boy of Mine and Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

Dipper Mouth Blues and Froggie More by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, featuring Louis Armstrong

Bambalina by Ray Miller Orchestra

Swingin’ Down the Lane by Isham Jones Orchestra

Enjoy your public domain works!

#Copyright #public domain #public domain day #2024 #happy new year #Disney #mickey mouse #minnie mouse #Tigger #Winnie the Pooh #Peter Pan #Charlie Chaplin #buster keaton #cole porter #louis armstrong #M. C. Escher

[spaceobloquy]

"Well, well, well. Looks like I'm the tourist now."

#In Character #Character: CARLA #Verse: CROSSOVER #Free Range #[ praise be to ProfessorGemini for this art which I use ] #[ purely for non-commercial purposes and with attribution ]

[zooophagous]

So why do you hate the advertising industry?

Hokay so.

Let me preface this with some personal history. It's not relevant to the sins of the advertising industry perse but it illustrates how I started to grow to hate it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but to be a vet you basically have to be good enough to get into medical school. I do not have the math chops or discipline to make it in medical school. I went into art instead, and in a desperate attempt to find some commercial viability that didn't involve moving to California, I went into graphic design.

I've been a graphic designer for about seven or eight years now and I've worn a lot of hats. One of them was working in a print shop. Now, the print shop had a lot of corporate customers who had various ad campaigns. One of them was Gate City Bank, which had a bigass stack of postcards ordered every couple months to mail to their customers.

Now, paper comes from Dakota Paper, and they make their paper the usual way. Somewhere far, far from our treeless plain there is a forest of tall trees. These trees are cut down and put on big fossil fuel burning trucks and hauled to a paper mill that turns them into pulp while spewing the most fowl odors imaginable over the neighboring town and loads the pulp up with bleach to give it a nice white color.

Then the paper is put on yet another big truck and hauled off to the local paper depot, then put on another big truck and delivered to my print shop, where I turned the paper into postcards telling people to go even deeper into debt to buy a boat because it's almost summer. The inks used are a type of nasty heat sensitive plastic that is melted to the surface of the paper with heat. Then the postcards are put on yet ANOTHER truck and sent to the bank, which puts them on ANOTHER truck and finally into the hands of their customers, who open their mail and take one look at the post card and immediately discard it.

Heaps and heaps and literal hundreds of pounds of literal garbage created at the whim of the marketing team several times a year. And thats just one bank in one city.

I came to realize very quickly that graphic design was the delicate art of turning trees into junk mail.

And wouldn't you know it there are a TON of companies that basically only do junk mail. Many of them operate under the guise of a "charity," sending you pictures of suffering children or animals and begging for handouts and when they get those handouts the executives take a nice fat cut, give some small token amount to whatever cause they pay lip service to, and then put the rest of the cash right back into making more mailers. "Direct mail marketing" they call it.

Oh but maybe it's not so bad, you can advertise online after all. Now that there's decent ad blocker out there and better anti-virus ads usually don't destroy your computer anymore just by existing.

Except now when I search for the exact business I want on Google it's buried under three or four different "promoted search items" tricking me into clicking on them only to shoot themselves in the foot because I searched for the specific result I wanted for a reason and couldn't use those other websites even if I felt like it.

And now we have advertising on YouTube and on every streaming service, forcing more and more eyes onto the ad for the brand new Buick Envision that parks itself because you're too stupid to do it on your own.

Oh thats ok maybe I'll get Spotify premium and go ad free and listen to some podcasts- SIKE we have the hosts of your show doing the song and dance now. Are you depressed and paranoid from listening to my true crime podcast about murdered and mutilated teenagers? That's ok, my sponsor Better Help can keep you sane enough to stay alive and spend more money.

It's gotten so terrible that now you have content farms, huge hubs of shell companies that crank out video after video to get more and more precious clicks. Which if the videos were innocuous maybe that wouldn't be so awful except now you have cooking hacks that can actually burn your house down and craft hacks that can electrocute you being flung into your eyes at the speed of mach fuck so some slimy internet clickbait jockey doesn't need to get a real job.

It of course goes without saying that animals are also relentlessly exploited by clickbait companies that will put them in compromising situations on purpose to create a fake fishing hack video or even just straight up killing them for sport by feeding small animals to a pufferfish that rips them apart for the camera.

And all of this, ALL of this doesn't even touch how adveritising is the death of art in general. Queer topics, any kind of interesting art, any kind of sex or substance use topics are scrubbed clean and hidden at the behest of advertisers.

Sex education, a nude statue, topics such as racism or sexism or bigotry in general have tags purged or hidden from search, even life saving information about SDTs or drug use, because if someone saw that and complained then Verizon might sell fewer tablets and we can't fucking have that.

Conservative talking heads often bitch and moan that they're being censored on social media. The stupid part is, they're right! They are being censored! But it's not by a woke mob, it's by ATT and Coca Cola not wanting their adspace sharing screen time with their stupid fucking opinions.

However, they won't ever figure that out, because the talking heads they get their marching orders from like Tucker and Jones ALSO rely on the sweet milk flowing from the sponsorship teat and they aren't about to turn on their meal ticket so they have to come up with even stupider shit to say for the train to continue rolling.

I managed to rant this far without even getting into the ads I see for the beauty industry. The other day a botox ad described wrinkles as "moderate to severe crows feet" as if wrinkles are a symptom of a fucking serious disease! Like having a flaw in your skin is a medical problem that you need thousands of dollars of literal botulism toxin to fix! I was incandescent with anger.

Advertising is a polluting, censoring, anti educational and anti art industry at it's very core. It destroys human connections, suppresses human thought and makes us hate our own bodies. It ads no value, actively detracts from value, and serves no real purpose and I believe it should be almost if not entirely banned.