People
These illustrations and photographs are free for any kind of educational use - whether you are a teacher creating topic worksheets or looking for ideas to spark creative writing, or a pupil who needs illustrations for a presentation or website.
Just select the collection you are interested in and have a look at the thumbnail images.
Most of the illustrations are available in both full-colour versions and in black and white.
Copyright
You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright. All we ask is that you don't sell them and you credit LTS when you use them. For full details, please see the copyright statement.
Human body
Get inside the complexities of the human body with these full-colour anatomical illustrations of the muscles, skeleton and organs like the eye and the brain.
Emotions
Are you happy, sad, cheery or scared? These illustrations of children's expressions, in colour and in black and white, could be used to prompt discussion about emotions and self-awareness.
Babies
Coloured illustrations of babies at four developmental stages.
Children
Ten coloured illustrations of individual children which could be used to illustrate signs, PowerPoint slides or learning resources.
Co-operating and playing together
Nine coloured illustrations showing children playing together, sharing, helping a hurt child and playing together in a group.
Portrait paintings
Download copies of these portraits, mostly of ordinary people, from the Royal Scottish Academy, along with information about each painting and artist.
Paintings of people and events
These paintings and sculptures show people involved in everyday activities, holidays and scenes from history. Selected from the Royal Scottish Academy to illustrate the artistic technique of figure composition, copies can be downloaded and there are extra details about each work of art.
People who help us
Twenty coloured illustrations of familiar figures such as police officers, firefighters, nurses, a postman and a lollipop man.
Copyright
These images are the copyright of Learning and Teaching Scotland and are provided as a royalty-free educational resource for educational use in Scotland. By downloading an image you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this licence.
You may copy, distribute and display an image, and make derivative works based on the image. Learning and Teaching Scotland must be credited as the source of the original image. You may not sell or permit third parties to sell or license an image. If you alter, transform, or build upon an image, you may distribute the resulting image only under a licence identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from Learning and Teaching Scotland.