digital illustration

Adobe Stock lists 19,220,301 illustrations for “digital illustration” as of 2026-08-05. The other tracked catalogues read 2,689,174 on iStock and 93,136 on Shutterstock. That is a 206× spread between the largest and smallest, so this phrase is stocked far more heavily on Adobe Stock than across the marketplaces evenly. For scale, that is within the most heavily stocked quarter of the 4,009 phrases with a supply reading, which begins at 420,000.

Adobe Stock flags 38% of its 19,220,301 illustrations for this phrase as AI-generated. That is well under the 76% median across the 1,383 phrases where Adobe publishes the flag — supply here is still mostly not generated. The flag is Adobe's own declaration on the asset, not an inference of ours, and it covers Adobe's catalogue only.

In the week of 2026-08-02, Google Trends put “digital illustration” at 15% of its own 12-month peak — near its yearly low. That index is rescaled per phrase, so every tracked phrase reaches 100 at its own busiest week; it says where this phrase sits in its own year, not how its search volume compares with another phrase's.

Sellers who publish for this phrase also tag their files “digital illustration art”, “digital illustration examples”, “digital illustration course”, “digital illustration meaning”, “digital illustration app”, “digital illustration styles”, and 34 more — harvested from the live listings rather than suggested, so they describe how the subject is actually being framed for buyers. The phrase sits in the tech category.