#ART REFERENCE PROFESSIONAL#
Technically, someone could add a photo and withdraw it later on and you'd be in breach of their copyright.įree Photos From Professional Photographers But you aren't asked to agree to terms when uploading photos and this isn't mentioned in their TOS. When you join you are asked at agree to terms for using photos on the site.
#ART REFERENCE FREE#
You have to create an account at the site to view photos but this is completely free and only takes a few minutes. The site isn't as visually easy to browse as others and photos are shown as fixed dimensions, so you can't see the whole photo in preview mode. No subject matter categories to browse but search tool works reasonably well.Īs you'd expect, the photos aren't to the standard of other sites on this list but as an artist, you should be aiming to change things like composition rather than slavishly copying a reference.Lots of photos (over 60,000 at the time of writing).
#ART REFERENCE LICENSE#
This is different from any Creative Commons license and allows you to use the photos, in theory, without fear of copyright infringement. Their terms are simple - you can use the photos for making art and you can sell that art - but you can't use the photos for anything else (such as digital art or graphic design).
#ART REFERENCE MODS#
For a wider choice, choose 'Commercial use & mods allowed' but be aware that you must credit the Flickr user whenever you publish your artwork.You can use these to draw and paint from without having to give credit. Change this to 'No known copyright restrictions' to show only those images in the public domain.In the upper left corner (on desktop devices) you'll see 'Any license'.Head over to and enter your search term.What you may not know about Flickr are the number of licenses its members can publish their images under, and how you filter images to show only those that you can use for your artwork. With a library of over 6 billion images and more than 3.5 million uploaded every day, you'll already be familiar with Flickr, no doubt. Ready? Let's find you some inspiring free photos that you can use for your next drawing or painting! The sites below are ordered in my own personal preference - i.e. Other sites contain a mix of CC0, Attribution and other more restrictive licenses so you need to filter the results to just CC0 or Attribution.
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Some of the sites I've listed below contain mostly CC0 images. The only difference is that the CC0 License doesn't require that your credit the owner of the photograph, the Attribution License does. You can sell your artwork or make prints of your artwork and sell those, or otherwise use your artwork in any commercial design.
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With both of these licenses, you can make any kind of artwork you like from the photo without asking permission. The special licenses we want to look for are: Secondly, you need to use photos that have a special license attached to them. Part 1 basically says two things.įirstly, you can't just do a Google search for a reference photo because there's a very good chance you'll be infringing someone's copyright. This blog post is a continuation of part 1. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only.In this part, I've listed 10 websites that offer thousands (millions!) of high-quality reference photos that you can use for your artwork, legally, for free. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Some defensive statistics Copyright © Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2022. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.įull-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.
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