i have a pretty big hoard of clip art and public domain material, and i’m frequently roaming around looking for more to add to my pile. it’s one of my hobbies! so, in case anybody finds themselves with a hankering for pics but not enough time on their hands to acquire those pics, i am offering my services to y’all!
do you want…
- some decorative flourishes for your page?
- complete sets of vintage web graphics?
- a surprise bundle of pictures for a collage?
- a collection of human faces to use as character references?
- 1800s fashion references?
- antique page ornaments?
- ET CETERA ???
i will go a-questing for you! just ask and i shall do my best.
i am not very good at making graphics, but i do have more time on my hands than most, and it is fun to have a specific goal in mind when i’m rummaging around and editing things.
here is an optional form you could use if you want to, or you can just ask normalstyle :)
what would you like me to get for you?
how many images do you want?
color or black&white?
any general themes or vibes you’re going for?
would you like me to do a bit of editing for you? (ie - edit patterns into tileable backgrounds, clean up jpeg artifacts a bit, give transparent backgrounds)
anything else you want to specify?
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Ooh! So one of my enduring interests lately has been sticker printing & cutting, and the biggest struggle with that so far besides paper jams is finding good stuff to print out.
So far most of my collection is straight-up stolen from pintrest or etsy (I’m not re-selling them so it’s okay 
!) but it’d be fun to make some fully custom ones. I’d be interested in any shape templates, background patterns, and fonts you think would make good sticker resources. I also wouldn’t say no to any pre-made graphics you think would be great stickers anyway.
I have my own process for smoothing things out and removing backgrounds so I won’t need any editing done. A few things to avoid would be photo-realistic patterns and graphics, anything too dark or too light with low contrast (but bold black and white works well). Vector-based graphics are especially useful but non-vector is fine if they’re big enough, say at least ~250px+ each side. Though I’m happy to pick through and evaluate whatever you send so don’t stress over these details :)
And theme-wise I’m most interested in:
- Animals (cute or scary!)
- Colourful
- Liberalism
- Retro / retrofuturism
- Tech
- Vaporwave
Though most of my stickers will be given away anyway so the theme isn’t really important; there’s someone for everything.
Anything you can find is helpful, as much or as little as you fancy, thank you in advance! I can’t promise to make any soon but I will promise to share them freely here when I do 
(disclaimer: My art skills also aren’t very good)
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oh oh oh, I have a simple one!
Space.
I love space, stars, planets, all of it :D
I feel like I do know most NASA sources for images, but if you feel like trawling for vintage space things, modern space things…
if you find them and @ me you’ll always at the very least get an “ooooooh, aaaaaah, pretty!” noise and you’ll bring me a serotonin boost! :D
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an interesting challenge! hopefully this is close to what you wanted! CLIP ART BONANZA!!
they’re all sized down to 50% for the forum but i think if you open them in a new tab they should be fullsized! if not i will put it all up on a webpage for you. 
shapes:
background patterns:
some cute animal silhouettes that i think should convert reasonably well to vectors - i tried to stick to animals that aren’t super easy to find pics of already (like cats, dogs, deer, butterflies).
animals!
and some animals & tech that i think might make fun stickers :)
animals & tech pics
if i went in the wrong direction with anything feel free to ask for more/different stuff! happy stickering!
edit: also, for places to look, rawpixel has a decent supply of vector images and pngs and if you feel like braving a morass of Junk creativefabrica also has heaps of free SVGs and fonts and such.
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As promised:
ooooh, aaaaah, shiny!!! I love that last gif and might have to find a good excuse to use i–
ohmygod
i don’t have a space page yet. hm. much to think about! the vintage stuff would make a killer page background 
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I just saw these a second ago and am legitimately considering re-theming my entire site to use some of them lol
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I threw a couple into GIMP and recoloured to match my websites colour scheme. Thought they turned out pretty. ( I am not sure if that counts as
“transformative” or whatever, but consider it licensed the same as the originals lol)
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