Okay, this is what we’ve bee leading up to. For those of you who love those huge lists of resources, I’ve now compiled my free Halloween graphic design resources posts into one huge Mega-List with a few bonuses thrown in for good measure. Vectors, Photoshop Brushes, Photoshop Layer Styles, Tutorials, Icons, Templates, Fonts…they are all here. Please Digg me, float me, and all that jive.
VECTORS
BenBlogged
Vector zombies available in AI and EPS formats.
MagicPeople
Three of several AI and EPS files available.
Open Clip Art Library
SVG format.
Wikimedia Commons
SVG format.
Public-domain-photos.com
SVG format.
Halloween Pumpkin Vector and Tutorial from N.Design Studio
N.Design Studio shows you how to make it and provides the original Illustrator file as well.
BenBlogged
Available in AI and EPS formats.
Free Clip Art
One of 9 pieces available. In WMF format.
Microsoft Office Online
Microsoft has tons of holiday art available in WMF format.
Open Clip Art Library
SVG format.
furaworld (DeviantART)
A set of vectors including these skulls. AI format.
anticubicle
Available in AI CS2 format.
BenBlogged
Here’s some cool ones for you.
Available in AI and EPS formats.
zwischenzeit (DeviantART)
Highly disturbing stuff but it’s Halloween so there you go.
Available in EPS format.
Go Media
Lots of good stuff in their Vector Pack Sample.
Available in EPS format.
Thomas Christoph Mediendesign (Vecteezy)
Check out the cool skull design on the shirt.
Available in EPS format.
Digital-Clipart
2 sample files available in AI and EPS formats.
Clip-Art.ru
WMF format.
Our first exclusive freebie! These are vectorized bats taken from copyright-expired art on Wikimedia Commons, done in 2 different styles. Feel free to to use them however you choose. Just don’t forget to show Design Bliss some love!
The file is an Illustrator CS2 file.
PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
creakystairs (DeviantART)
22 brushes.
wyckedBrush (DeviantART)
13 brushes.
Scully7491
Spiders and spider webs.
seleneheart (DeviantART)
25 brushes. Personal use only.
Bats Photoshop Brushes by wyckedBrush (DeviantART)
Bats Photoshop Brushes by Microbion Graphics
PHOTOSHOP LAYER STYLES
Here is another Design Bliss exclusive! Five free Halloween Photoshop Layer Styles whipped up just for you guys. Hope you like them. Use them on your projects however you want; just don’t redistribute them without permission.
Click on the graphic to download the ASL file.
PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS
Here are some great Halloween-themed Photoshop tutorials.
Tutorial Quest – Carving a Virtual Jack-O-Lantern
Mopacity – Creating and Animating a Bat
Fiery Darts – Drawing a Halloween Cartoon – The Witch
TutorialWiz – Halloween Pumpkin
Plus you can download the original PSD file.
Photoshop Facelift – Create a Gothic Style Look
ICONS
Zeus Box
Desktop icons set. The set are contain 11 pumpkin smilies and 7 “graphical halloweeb.”
(Note: You can also purchase a vector set of these icons for $14.50.)
kearone (DeviantART)
PNGs included. For use with Windows XP/Vista.
TurboMilk
PNGs available.
Iconfactory offers lots of sets of icons, in PC and Macintosh formats, that are free for personal desktop use. Year after year, they offer some great sets of free Halloween icons. Here are my favorites:
Litho Halloween Icons from Iconfactory
And their latest offering…Spooky Stickers.
With so much of the early success of this blog being attributed to my massive RSS icons post, I couldn’t resist playing around with some Halloween rss icons for you. I think the jack o’ lanterns could work well, and I’ve done 2 different versions of a bat as well as just for fun. These are completely vector, done in Illustrator CS2. Again, use them as you want but don’t distribute them as your own. Include them in website designs, templates, whatever. A link back or blog entry would be nice. Anyway, here they are:
WEBSITE TEMPLATES
Finding good, free Halloween templates for websites proved harder than I thought. If you know of any good ones, please add them in the comments.
A Free Web Template – Halloween Pumpkin
Several other designs are available.
Free Site Templates – Halloween 1
Free CSS Templates – The Gathering
A decidedly dark template.
Rock-Kitty – WordPress Halloween Theme
2-column, Adsense ready Halloween theme.
Open Designs
While not strictly a Halloween design, I thought the Web 2.0 style with the Halloween color scheme was worth mentioning.
STOCK PHOTOS
Here’s a few stock photos that could be used to great effect in Halloween-related projects. The last one is even a layered PSD with the crows already cut out for you.
CatONineTales (DeviantART)
Layered PSD. Personal Non-Commercial use only.
Here’s some more great free stock photos for Halloween from Stock.xchng:
Here’s even more great free Halloween stock photos for you, this time from Stockvault.
Halloween Color Palettes from Color Hunter
With Color Hunter, you can look at existing color schemes made from photos tagged Halloween or upload your own.
FONTS
Here are sources of Halloween fonts for your projects.
Sinister Fonts
A bunch of very cool, original fonts created by Chad Savage.
The Halloween Chamber of Horrors
This is a very old Geocities site but appears to have a good collection available.
Acid Fonts
A nice collection of fonts.
Fontenstein
Another collection dedicated to Halloween fonts.
Blambot
Blambot specializes in comic book fonts and offers a bunch of free fonts that would be great for Halloween.
Dafont.com
Dafont. com has a large selection of Halloween fonts. Here is just a sample.
Dafont also has a selection of scary fonts that could work well.
UrbanFonts
Here is a selection of their Halloween dingbats.
Halloween.it
And here’s a large selection of Halloween fonts and dingbats from an Italian site.
Plus here’s some more Skull fonts from dafont.com.
Calaveras
Skull TS 2
Free for personal use.
Horror Fonts from Abstract Fonts
They have over 90 available. Here is a small sample.
Similar Posts:
- Over 50 Halloween Design Resources for 2008 – A Design Bliss Mega-List
- Over 50 Free Valentine’s Day Design Resources – A Design Bliss Mega-List
- Over 100 Free Christmas Design Resources – A Design Bliss Mega-List
- Free Halloween Graphic Design Resources – Day Five: Fonts
- Free Halloween Graphic Design Resources – Day Ten: More Fonts and Dingbats
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12 Comments
May 15th, 2008
rocking maan..!! cool fonts and pics..!!
Jun 6th, 2008
Absolute bliss discovering this website! A treasure trove.
Jun 6th, 2008
Thanks, guys.
Jun 11th, 2008
ThX U
Jul 21st, 2008
thx a lot brother for sharing the links
Oct 3rd, 2008
This list is so awesome! You saved me TONS of trouble and I found lots of stuff that I’d never even guessed was out there!
Oct 3rd, 2008
Glad you like the list. Be sure to come back to the site throughout this month as I will be listing more resources for this year.
Oct 6th, 2008
This is great!
Thank you so much for gathering all this, I love all of it!
What a sweet collection!
Oct 15th, 2008
thanks so much for this!! its easily the best resource I’ve found. you rock!
Oct 30th, 2008
heyy.. the fonts are really cool.. you guys should try them out..:)♥
Nov 19th, 2008
Really cool fonts. Thanx for collecting all the stuff!!!
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