Do you use stock icons/illustrations or create a budget for brand new ones when you start a project?

For icons, I prefer going with flaticon. However for illustrations I prefer creating a new one explaining some of the important product stories.

I recently started creating my own icons while sometimes downloading from the list of free icons .. while being bootstrapped we are always tight on budget

Stock to start, here are our go-tos: https://www.flaticon.com/ https://ui8.net/ https://creativemarket.com/

Early on, we used Fiverr artists for some graphics but mostly turned to stick icons/illustrations. We now budget for custom icons and illustrations that are on brand and unique to us. Best decision we ever made.