Textures and patterns have their own importance in the process of creation and designing. Many people think that 3d artists and game designers are the only ones who work with textures and patterns for surfacing the 3d geometries and assets. Actually, artists who work with 2d like concept designers and digital painters also play with textures to add some nice and crispy details to their art.
Using textures can push your design more closer to the reality and turn your art into more interesting and flashy piece.
There are many websites on the internet that feature different types of textures. But its not always easy to find the good source, so here, I’ve compiled a list of some best texture websites that you should visit and take advantage from their free resources.
CG Textures
CG Textures is an awesome site with huge database of various high quality textures. You can browse through various texture categories and download them within the given quota. You need to register first to download the textures.Texture Vault
Texture Vault, another big archive with plenty of high quality textures. It has over 8000 texture images in its database with more than 25 categories. Its a good place for purchasing and selling the textures.Texturer
Its a good service for free and high quality textures with a clean and easy to navigate interface. You can download textures, references and panoramas from this great website.Texturez
A neat and clean website with a large category of different textures. Each texture thumbnail has information about on which date it has been added and what size the original texture image file has. You also have the option to have a look at a low-res preview image or full size texture image itself.Mayang
Mayang is another great texture library with over 4000 free high resolution textures to download. You may download the textures one-by-one for free, but it also offers you to purchase the whole set of texture at once.1000skies
As the name suggests, this website offers wide variety of Sky textures and images that can be used to create skydomes or cubemaps. You can download partial as well as full 360 sky images from 1000skies.
Lugher Texture
It has an amazing variety of textures that you would love to explore. Every single texture is very detailed and nicely captured. You can easily use them for your projects without much tweaks.Amazing Textures
Amazing Textures offers you to browse through its various categories that contain textures related to urban (buildings, gates, interiors), misc (clothing, books, food) and nature elements.Arrowway Textures
Arrow Way is offering some great and professional looking texture pack DVDs including some additional maps like bump, specular, normal maps and material settings.Texture Library
Its a very simple website with minimalistic layout. All the texture categories are on the homepage, so you can easily go through the one you want.Texture Portal
Texture portal has a great collection of high quality seamless textures with additional normal, bump and specular maps. You can download the preview of the texture packs before purchasing them.Texture Works
Texture Works is another awesome place which offers a good amount of free textures and time lapse skies. If you want more detailed and quality textures then you may purchase the available texture packs.Grunge Textures
Visit WebsiteTexture Warehouse
Its really a warehouse where you can download hundreds of excellent textures for your projects. You can easily browse through the categories available on the homepage and give your feedback about the textures by simply rating them.Zen Textures
Another great database of over 400 texture images. You can either download them one by one or purchase the entire collection for $29.Fudge Graphics
Fudge Graphics has some really cool texture packs that can be downloaded for free.Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo publishes amazingly detailed and high quality texture images every Tuesday. Check the link given below to grab all of those awesome textures.Texture Mate
This website is another great source for free textures and patterns. You can also download the available packs for free rather than browsing each texture image.Lost and Taken
Lost and Taken has lots of free textures that can be used for personal as well as commercial projects. You have a ton of textures and over 30 categories to browse through.Free Texture Site
This great website has over 600 free texture images that can be used for commercial as well as personal purposes.3d Texture
It is a big archive of more than 800 high quality textures where you can browse through the top images, new images or simply go through the given categories.
That’s all folks, I hope you enjoyed this list. If you find any of these sites useful and have used their content then you may say thanks by giving them some credits. Have fun with texturing!
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