Open Doodles

What Is Open Doodles?

Open Doodles is a free collection of hand-drawn sketchy illustrations available under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication license, permitting unrestricted use, modification, distribution, and commercial application without attribution. As anillustrationsresource in the design category, Open Doodles provides over 50 standalone vector illustrations depicting everyday human activities, work scenarios, and leisure scenes, such as people lying with a phone, hugging coffee, walking dogs, dancing, or floating. Created by Pablo Stanley using Procreate for initial sketches, vectorization in Illustrator, and export in Sketch, these illustrations fit into design workflows for adding visual elements to mockups, websites, apps, and print materials.

What Open Doodles Does

• Offers downloadable illustrations in SVG, PNG (300dpi with transparent backgrounds), and GIF formats for simple looping animations like waving or walking.
• Supports color customization of ink, accent, and background elements through an online generator tool for creating custom packs.
• Provides source files with layers, allowing users to examine construction, edit, remix, or redraw illustrations.
• Includes integration options like a Figma plugin for drag-and-drop components with layer separation, and a React npm package (react-open-doodles) with 20+ pre-built illustrations.
• Delivers illustrations in a flowing hand-drawn style, primarily black-and-white with preserved brush textures after vectorization.
• Enables composition of multiple elements via the Blush platform for multi-format exports.

How Open Doodles Can Be Used

• In social media graphics to illustrate daily activities or dynamic scenes.
• For app empty states, showing relatable human interactions like reading or thinking.
• In presentation slides and educational materials to visualize work or leisure concepts.
• As placeholders in developer workflows, such as React components for web applications.
• Within design tools like Figma for rapid mockup enhancement with customizable vectors.
• For tech articles or Notion templates, as seen in uses by Khan Academy, The Verge, and Notion galleries.

Who Is Open Doodles For?

Open Doodles serves designers, developers, and content creators needing quick access to modifiable sketchy illustrationsfor projects like websites, mobile apps, social media, presentations, and print materials. It suits UI/UX designers integrating illustrations into mockups, front-end developers embedding vectors via React or Figma, and teams handling empty states or visual storytelling without illustration budgets. Graphic artists and educators benefit from the open license and formats supporting editing in tools like Illustrator or Procreate. Those working on themes of daily life, work, or leisure find thematic matches in the collection's scenarios.

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