One of my favourite styles of web design is the combination of hand drawn elements with digital interfaces. This showcase rounds up a collection of web designs with a creative illustration as part of the website’s background.
Pieoneers
Deborah Cavenaugh
xhtmlCafe
Robbin Waldemar
Galan
Kimberly Coles
Sasha Endoh Design
Smallman Records
Boompa
Kreativa Unlimited
Shizucor
That Indie Dude
Tenessee Education
Anandakm
Mike Poss
A Crayon’s Life
Kris Colvin
10Words
Creative Week
Adam Amaral
Legwork Studio
Snoop Media
Odosketch
Project 365
Mark Forrester
Web Designer Wall
N.Design Studio
GoMediaZine
Corvus
Chirag Solanki
ANidea
Very nice!!! :) Great post man! Thanks.
Cool run down. With illustration close to our chief designer’s heart, this’ll be great inspiration for him.
Wow, there are some really amazing illustrations here, thanks a lot.
Now I just have to wait for my Wacom to arrive ;)
Some great inspiration here – thanks! The thing I love about these backgrounds is that they don’t detract from the main content of the sites, but enhance it.
Just thought you may way to add:
http://www.ipolecat.com/
That one is really cool too
Mine could have been here too take a look http://realwebdesigns.com
But great collection
Yes! great work! I like the fonts you use a lot too!
thanks for the compliment
Very Nice. All is a big inspiration for brazilians. Thank you
Great post, nice to N Design on the list
http://lbobi.com is another good example of blending the hand-drawn element into a website, and it has some really nice sub-pages that carry that theme throughout the whole site.
Wow! Love this post! Inspired!
How about…
http://www.introducingbooks.com/
woo amazing where I can find any lessons about how do draw like this Chris?
Check out http://www.designshifts.com as well!
great post thank you !!!
Wow! Thanks for including me in this list of awesome designs.
Wow great list – quite a few of them new to me too!
Hand drawn graphic style websites are my favourites too… Just wish I had the creative talent to design them myself. Fantastic list, thanks for sharing.
A really nice selection!
Some old, some new, but still, priceless! :D
Love it! Such a massive colllleciton!
Good Collection 4m wer did u get dis…….
I love the examples above, they are so colourful and the hand drawn aspect really creates decent stand out.
sweet post! added to evernote
These look great! Very inspiring for a young creative like myself!
this is my blog http://www.designmultimedia.com/ i could insert a illustration in the background
I hoped that Web Designer Wall and N.Design would not be in the list, but they seem to make it in illustrated websites lists again… and again… but, hey, it’s okay, only 2 out of great discoveries.
Great collection. Thanks for sharing.
You got some cute designs there. Is this your work? If so, do you have any suggestion to do with my boring website http://executivecoachingcertifaction.com ?
Wow, amazing how a background image can bring a website to life . im a big fan of the 10words website – works really well.
this is great thanx for sharing.