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!
Free Vintage Shading Brushes for Illustrator
Free Wax Crayon Brushes for Illustrator
Free Linocut Brushes for Illustrator
8 Free Stipple Shading Illustrator Brushes
24 Marker Pen Brushes for Illustrator
⭐ These premium Illustrator brushes have replaced a free download that is no longer available. A Spoon Graphics membership is required.
24 Vector Dry Brush Stroke Brushes
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Flow Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
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Rodeo: Hand Drawn Rope Brush
FREE Halftone Vector Brushes
“Paper Tooth” Line Brushes
12 free brush stroke Illustrator brushes
CHEMIST Illustrator Brushes
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57 Illustrator Multi-Colored Paint Brushes
Artistic Illustrator Brushes Pack
Smoke Illustrator brush pack
Shader Brushes for Illustrator
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Free Vector Brushes
Free Hairy Fur Illustrator Brushes
Childs Play Crayons Illustrator Brush set
Natural Sketch Doodle Lines Brush Set
Real Rope – Illustrator Brushes
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Free Natural Line Illustrator Brushes
Free Lino Cut brushes for Illustrator
Free vector scatter brushes
Stipple Brushes For Illustrator
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Thanks for featuring my brush stroke brushes, Chris. Much appreciated!
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 !!
As always. Thanks!
Love it
Thank for the share Chris
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
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.
You are awesome to put up all of these brushes for free. MJ
thank you so much for sharing your work with us all.
The first one “ribbon” is amazing! Thank You chris! :)
Hi. I love these brushes and I’m really enjoying using them. They offer a great style.
You’re amazing, thank you for putting this together!
Well, thanks very much !
These will come in handy :)
Thank you! These are great!
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!
Thank you, very usefull. Will share with my colleagues at https://wecreate.com.hk/. Look forward to read more from you.
Amazing collection! I had a couple of them but there’s so much more to find! Thank you.
thank you so much,
stay with love
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!
These are fantastic to have thanks very much!