Concept Art Resources

Published on March 16, 2021. Last revision on Mar 10, 2025. This is a living document, feel free to suggest edits on GitHub.

Photobashing

• Unsplash, Pexels
• Public domain photos on Flickr (also my CC0 albums)
• PurePNG - Transparent CC0 Library (Requires account)
• People Cutouts on MrCutOut - Transparent Cutouts Library (Requires account)

Selected museums with CC0 pictures

The Art Institute of Chicago • Met Museum • Smithsonian • Yale Center for British Art

CG Assets

• 3Dassets.one - All CG libraries at one place

3D Models

• Free models on Polyheaven
• CC0 collections on Sketchfab (Requires account)
• Free models on TurboSquid (Requires account)
• Free models on CGTrader
• Free models & animations on Mixamo (Required Adobe account)

Also BlenderKit Plugin for Blender

Textures & Materials

• Textures.com (Requires account)
• CC0Textures.com
• TextureLabs.org
• CGBookcase.com

Also Lily Surface Scraper Plugin for Blender (Unmaintained)

Anatomy Reference

• Animal Skull 3D Reference
• Head Reference Angle

Anatomy Practice

• New Masters Academy YouTube
• Quickposes

Inspiration & Others

• Shot.cafe - Movie stills library
• Brief Builder
• Google Arts and Culture