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Title: clipart sources??
Post by: Auryn on July 02, 2009, 09:53:06 AM
I was hoping to plunder the knowledge stored in your great brains.

I am working on doing laser etchings on a set of pilsner glasses for my lord's birthday next week.

I was thinking of doing them all differently,  some knotwork on one, maybe a pirate one, some runes.

Anyone have a good free source for vector clipart??
Title: Re: clipart sources??
Post by: RumbaRue on July 02, 2009, 01:46:24 PM
Just Google for 'free clipart' or 'free animated clipart'.

There's lots of sites, just be careful of those who claim free, but aren't or those that say you have to download stuff - then you get stuff you don't want. Also some sites have their sites 'shadowed' over the supposed useable picture, but not useable......
I have gone through tons of clipart sites it just depends on what you want.

Here's a few sites I have used:

http://www.arthursclipart.org/ (http://www.arthursclipart.org/)

http://www.gifanimations.com/index.jsp (http://www.gifanimations.com/index.jsp)

http://www.millan.net/anims/holidays.html (http://www.millan.net/anims/holidays.html)

Yesterday I was cruising through some large sites, but forgot to bookmark them...sorry.

Title: Re: clipart sources??
Post by: Gwen aka Punstergal on July 03, 2009, 01:18:49 PM
Another suggestion (although, i warn you that you will most likely get distracted and spend hours surfing the art) is to check out deviantart.com. You can search for "stock" art or vector art or art about a specific subject matter (or all of the above). Theres TONS of stuff up which may be useful. I have a stock account myself, and it's only one of a few hundred thousand, hehe.
Title: Re: clipart sources??
Post by: Auryn on July 06, 2009, 09:28:56 AM
thanks guys
Gwen
I was introduced to deviant art about 3 years ago and regularly wile away an entire day there on a regular basis.
Unfortunately about 95% of clipart on the internet isnt clean enough for the laser.
I will keep looking

Thanks