25 Adobe Illustrator Brush Sets You Can Download For Free

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!

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.

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Illustrator Brush Sets You Can Download For Free

29 Comments submitted Add yours!

helen says:

February 15, 2016 at 1:29 pm

You’re amazing, thank you for putting this together!
Fred says:

February 15, 2016 at 1:42 pm

Well, thanks very much !
These will come in handy :)
alexandra says:

February 15, 2016 at 1:48 pm

Fantastic! Thank you so much!
riccardo plaisant says:

February 15, 2016 at 1:48 pm

Great! thank you Chris. As usual your blog is a source of amazing resources.
Barbara says:

February 15, 2016 at 2:08 pm

Thanks!
REDLINE DESIGN says:

February 15, 2016 at 2:17 pm

You never cease to fail! Always top notch quality. Thank you.
alberto says:

February 15, 2016 at 2:25 pm

Muchas gracias, Eres fantastico, Con todos estos cepillos ayudan a que todo sea mas fluido y sencillo
Phil says:

February 15, 2016 at 2:49 pm

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 !!
Noah Lerarner says:

February 15, 2016 at 3:05 pm

Thanks a ton for putting in the time to create this list. I’m really stokes to use them!

-Noah
Prina says:

February 15, 2016 at 5:11 pm

Thanks, for the great recourses! They will come in handy.
Matt says:

February 15, 2016 at 6:12 pm

Thanks Chris, this is a fantastic collection of brushes. Really appreciate the work you put into posts like this.
Sam Jones says:

February 15, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Thanks for featuring my brush stroke brushes, Chris. Much appreciated!
Laura says:

February 15, 2016 at 11:03 pm

Thank you! These are great!
MaryJane Mitchell says:

February 16, 2016 at 2:55 am

You are awesome to put up all of these brushes for free. MJ
fahd09 says:

February 16, 2016 at 5:24 am

As always. Thanks!
kay says:

February 16, 2016 at 9:55 am

thank you so much for sharing your work with us all.
Bec says:

February 16, 2016 at 11:13 am

Thanks for putting this together! Muchly appreciated.
Diane says:

February 16, 2016 at 8:22 pm

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.
Claudio says:

February 17, 2016 at 5:57 am

Great stuff, thanks!
Saqib Ahmad says:

February 17, 2016 at 6:45 am

The first one “ribbon” is amazing! Thank You chris! :)
tim says:

February 17, 2016 at 1:31 pm

Thank you, very usefull. Will share with my colleagues at https://wecreate.com.hk/. Look forward to read more from you.
James says:

February 18, 2016 at 9:31 am

Love it
Thank for the share Chris
Louise Damiano says:

February 18, 2016 at 6:38 pm

Amazing collection! I had a couple of them but there’s so much more to find! Thank you.
Lee Farrington says:

February 20, 2016 at 3:08 am

These are fantastic to have thanks very much!
Bengü says:

February 23, 2016 at 6:43 am

thank you so much,
stay with love
Matt Ward says:

February 28, 2016 at 9:25 am

Hi. I love these brushes and I’m really enjoying using them. They offer a great style.
Auto Station Limited says:

February 29, 2016 at 12:38 pm

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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pancard-status says:

March 6, 2016 at 3:21 pm

Thank you chris spooner for your valuable post.Need more brushes.I book marked your blog for future visit.
Rik says:

March 15, 2016 at 5:29 am

Thanks a lot man! Very helpful! Wish you all the best!