Brushes for Adobe Illustrator come in three types; Art Brushes, Pattern Brushes and Scatter Brushes. They’re all used with the Brush tool, but they each have their specific purpose. Art brushes are the most common, they’re applied to paths and are often used to create realistic hand drawn effects. Pattern brushes are configured to generate seamlessly repeating patterns, which help you easily create intricate designs. Finally, Scatter brushes are commonly used to produce grungy shading effects by painting rough textures onto specific areas of your artwork. Illustrator Brushes are rare resources compared to their Photoshop counterparts, so it’s useful to know where to find them. In this post I present 25 great quality Adobe Illustrator brush sets you can download for free!
Update
This post has been updated several times over the years to remove old downloads that are no longer available. Sadly, free Illustrator brushes are few and far between these days, so here are my picks of high-quality Illustrator brushes that cost a little money, but are comprehensive collections of professionally created tools. Still looking for free downloads? You can find the remaining Illustrator brush sets you can download for free here.
Stipple Shading Brushes for Illustrator
Vintage Shading Brushes for Illustrator
Wax Crayon Brushes for Illustrator
Linocut Brushes for Illustrator
24 Marker Pen Brushes for Illustrator
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Flow Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
CHEMIST Illustrator Brushes
Shader Brushes for Illustrator
Real Rope – Illustrator Brushes
Stipple Brushes For Illustrator
Character Drawing Toolkit
Zen Fine Liner and Mandala Creator
Finest Vintage Illustrator Brushes
Chunky Markers – Illustrator Brushes
131 Handmade Marker Pen Strokes
Ultimate Brush Toolbox – Markers
Dry Marker Brushes for Procreate
Marker Illustrator Brushes
Stipple Shading Brushes
The Stipple Brushes Kit
Tattoo Style Art Brushes
Stipple Brush Set for Photoshop and Illustrator
Ultimate Brush Toolbox – Crayon Brushes
Crayon Procreate Brushes
Cray-Cray Crayon Brush Pack for Procreate
Wax Crayon Brushes For Procreate
Crayon Brushes for Procreate
Scribbles Procreate Brushes
Essential Hand Drawn Brushes
The Master Engraver
DEEP CUTS ENGRAVING BRUSHES
Illustrator Vintage Engraving Brushes
Illustrator Brush Sets You Can Download For Free
Rodeo: Hand Drawn Rope Brush
FREE Halftone Vector Brushes
“Paper Tooth” Line Brushes
57 Illustrator Multi-Colored Paint Brushes
Free Vector Brushes
Free Hairy Fur Illustrator Brushes
Childs Play Crayons Illustrator Brush set
Natural Sketch Doodle Lines Brush Set
Free Natural Line Illustrator Brushes
Free Lino Cut brushes for Illustrator
Free vector scatter brushes
51 Free Vector Brushes
You’re amazing, thank you for putting this together!
Well, thanks very much !
These will come in handy :)
Fantastic! Thank you so much!
Great! thank you Chris. As usual your blog is a source of amazing resources.
Thanks!
You never cease to fail! Always top notch quality. Thank you.
Muchas gracias, Eres fantastico, Con todos estos cepillos ayudan a que todo sea mas fluido y sencillo
C’est vraiment un superbe Pack! merci pour cette générosité et pour votre créativité. A chaque fois que j’ouvre un dossier, il y a des bonus qui surgissent de partout !!
Thanks a ton for putting in the time to create this list. I’m really stokes to use them!
-Noah
Thanks, for the great recourses! They will come in handy.
Thanks Chris, this is a fantastic collection of brushes. Really appreciate the work you put into posts like this.
Thanks for featuring my brush stroke brushes, Chris. Much appreciated!
Thank you! These are great!
You are awesome to put up all of these brushes for free. MJ
As always. Thanks!
thank you so much for sharing your work with us all.
Thanks for putting this together! Muchly appreciated.
Somebody please tell me how to use these after they are downloaded and unzipped. I want to use them in photoshop and I can’t figure out how to capitalize on such awesomeness.
Great stuff, thanks!
The first one “ribbon” is amazing! Thank You chris! :)
Thank you, very usefull. Will share with my colleagues at https://wecreate.com.hk/. Look forward to read more from you.
Love it
Thank for the share Chris
Amazing collection! I had a couple of them but there’s so much more to find! Thank you.
These are fantastic to have thanks very much!
thank you so much,
stay with love
Hi. I love these brushes and I’m really enjoying using them. They offer a great style.
I must say you have done a awesome job with this.
Additionally, the blog loads very fast for me on Firefox. Superb Blog!
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Thank you chris spooner for your valuable post.Need more brushes.I book marked your blog for future visit.
Thanks a lot man! Very helpful! Wish you all the best!