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With the abundance of pro-grade boosters released for creators, it is getting more and more fun and fluent to create illustrations of yours. There are various actions and effects to add a spark to your artwork. Or there are Illustrator brushes to help you create a fine graphic masterpiece from scratch.
You’re gonna love the process of using all these free and premium Illustrator brushes since it’s as easy as to snap your fingers. It’s also pretty rejoicing that you are now able to add any touch to your style, from glowing retro brutalism to grunge designs. We’ve hand-selected every brush pack on the list, so you can be sure there will be anything you need. Watercolor brushes, shaders, ink, paint, and even floral brushes for Illustrator are included to ease and enhance your workflow.
Our Team’s Top Pick
Stipple Brushes for Illustrator
Prepare to onboard your most nostalgic illustrations with 18 Illustrator brushes inspired by the classic Pop Art and Yves Saint-Laurent’s style of the mid-’70s.
With their help, you’ll easily add texture and mood to the shapes and transform ordinary objects into focal elements to magnet the appreciation of your community. There are 9 brush types, each available in two styles: stroke brushes and stipple brushes to perfectly imbue retro eclectics in your illustrations, posters, logos, editorials, ads, and so much more!
Rodeo: Hand Drawn Rope Brush
This hand-drawn rope brush for Adobe Illustrator CC will help you nail the project as the rope restrains the beast but not your creative freedom. You can apply these free brushes to any path, changing the width, color, and rope design. Definitely, not the most conventional freebie you might get, but is there a designer to refuse a secret weapon to use in their art to make it shine?
The Ultimate Texture Brush Library
This vector brush pack not only helps to make the artwork stand out, but it’s also super-easy to use as the brushes don’t over-stretch on long strokes and shapes. The brush set gives a chance to create a vast variety of different creative styles. You will have 17 sets of Illustrator brushes, including anti-stretch pattern brushes, scatter brushes, and short outline brushes for tiny strokes.
Printing Press Illustrator Brushes
The pack includes 18 halftone patterns to convey retro ambiance with some obvious yet convincing means. Everything is realizable with them: from the 60s-themed newspapers to 70s posters and 80s print designs. Next, there are 6 stroke and 6 grain brushes to help you emulate volume and add texture to your work. Finally, you will have 6 high-quality paper textures — to achieve ultimate realism with your art!
Spray & Hatch Illustrator Brushes
Sometimes it’s just impossible to make hatching look light and natural, and it’s so annoying! Take a deep breath and look at what we’ve got: hand-crafted free Illustrator brushes for easy sketching! The package has everything any artist needs: 10 spray and 10 hatch Adobe Illustrator brushes to deliver textures most realistically! Create volume, shadowing, highlight details, and easily point out composition elements.
Illustrator Pencil Brushes
Each of the 30 illustrator brushes was made by scanning real pen or pencil scribbles, carefully vectorizing & cleaning them up, then converting them into an Illustrator tool. The painstaking work means that the art brushes retain the beautiful texture of the original graphite and ink. Using this vector brush set is simple: just lay down the strokes and select a suitable brush from the panel. What’s even better, you’ll save lots of time by using edge brushes without any need to use clipping masks!
Stipple Brushes for Illustrator
Get a handful of 30 high-quality brushes for stippling to use in your next project! This huge brush pack will suit your every need: creating vintage logos, digital illustrations or backgrounds. Just pick a brush stroke, selected from the panel and prepare for some creative activity, as there’re hardly better tools for modern artworks.
Floral Pattern Illustrator Brushes
Happy to share a set of 25 high-quality free Illustrator brushes to update your toolbox! Apply floral brushes to any vector object and create unique styles, borders, wreaths, laurels, and even stunning typography compositions. These high-quality are easily customizable by adjusting stroke size, so the florals would complement any creative work, invitation, or wedding card you can imagine.
Memento Illustrator Brushes
You get to work with 12 free vector brushes (6 hatch and 6 shaders) with distinctive features and purposes. Hatch brushes add a wrought look to any picture. Shader brushes speak for themselves, adding authentic imagery by darkening the chosen areas. When the turn comes to edge brushes, your project obtains the middle ground between an artistic distortion and a clear line. Create ingenious illustrations, commercials, posters, logotypes — anything this pack can inspire you for!
Multi-color, Mixed Paint Brushes
This Adobe Illustrator brush pack is the culmination of experiments and planning: every stroke was labored on and carefully scrutinized to ensure the final effect was convincing. Each multi-color stroke combines three different brushes, which have been packaged using a one-click graphic style. The colors and stroke width can be adjusted in the same way as a normal Illustrator brush. The pack contains 21 easy-color paint brush strokes and 24 color swatches.
Patts Illustrator Brushes
Patts collection contains 50 no-stretched brushes and 60 seamless patterns for Adobe Illustrator! All the elements are not only good-looking but time-saving and customizable. The provided pattern brushes follow the classic 60s style so that you can make simple but beautiful retro illustrations. The brush set is helpful for every designer and artist involved in pattern creation or seeking to carry out unique graphic masterpieces, logos, editorial illustrations, and more!
Vector Brushes Free
Sometimes it’s just impossible to make hatching look light and natural, and it’s so annoying! Hopefully, we’ve got a solution! Take a deep breath and look at what we’ve got: free abstract illustrator brushes for easy drawing. There are 18 free pattern to help you achieve a convincing hand-drawn look! You’ll find them an excellent pick for casual scribbles or as a regular addition to your Illustrator essentials.
The Fairy Illustrator Brushes
Turn to these 38 hand-drawn brushes & 9 patterns for Adobe Illustrator CC, containing all sorts of vector brush strokes and various styles you must love (straight and rough outlines, dots, and dashes, stippling, hatching): dreamy motives of fir trees, moose, giraffe skin and high-flying birds. Just pick the brush you need to convey mood and spirit to an illustration and let it look different, like the one from your adventure novels book, where taking risks is good!
24 Marker Pen Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
Authentically sourced from real pens and markers, these 24 free illustrator brushes by Spoon Graphics provide a variety of nib styles and sizes, ranging from thin outlining strokes to thick and messy scribbles. With just a single click, you can draw clean and crisp vector paths and achieve the appearance of a hand-made doodle. All you have to do is to download the free pack, add the brushes to your Illustrator library, and that’s it! You’re ready to draw something fancy!
Floral Flexible Illustrator Brushes
You can easily create floral elements and arrangements with these beautiful flexible Illustrator brush strokes. Simply draw a path of any shape or size and apply one of the brushes to get instant results that you can edit with ease. Have you ever seen a brush stroke to repeat natural florals and turn them into bouquets? That’s the case! These florals will perfectly imbue the romantic aesthetic in your logos, monograms, branding, wedding invitations, stationery, and wallpapers.
Preppy Art Illustrator Brushes
Meet your best free Illustrator brushes from Guerillacraft. They were inspired by the 50s and 60s magazines, so the acrylic paint and old canvas transfer the feeling of retro! You can get armed with 29 vector brushes, all with canvas textures and a half-dried paint look. They create a beautiful dynamic effect in your illustrations and attract more attention to the details. You can use this collection of free to make unique pictures, decorate your banners, and carry out new logos or website elements!
Mosaic Tile Illustrator Brushes
You don’t have to repeat the creative process of the ancient masters to produce a mosaic. All you need is a Mosaic Tile Illustrator Brush Set! In this pack, you will find everything to release and transform your artistic fantasies into something perceptible: 10 tile brushes for Illustrator and 25 patterns. There are also 15 seamless textures to help you tweak and customize tile shapes. If you used to treat mosaic only as fun leisure, think of illustrations, branding, and decor you can make with this collection!
Paper Tooth Line Brushes
Have you ever wanted your vector design work to look like it’s been printed? Then this set of free Illustrator brushes is what you’re looking for. Apply the brush pack to get a printed look, simulating ink creeping into the “tooth” of the paper. Brushes come in 4 various styles to create a more dramatic effect. The pack will become a true treasure for a savvy artist, designer, or illustrator who already has all kinds of tools, from pen to watercolor brushes, and seeks new badges of creativity.
Pastels Illustrator Brush-Kit
In this set, you will get 43 realistic vector brushes repeating original pastels. Also, there’re 25 pastel colors pre-made for authentic looks. If you like to draw with pastels or miss this experience from an art school, this high-quality collection is here to satisfy your creative cravings. Each Illustrator brush from the package is so much joy, so the artistic process should be as enjoyable as if you were making pastel scribbles on paper.
Free Linocut & Woodcut Brushes for Illustrator
The 25 free Adobe Illustrator brushes by Spoon Graphics will help you carve your own digital designs while achieving the linocut and woodcut vintage look. Choose from a range of brush shapes, including texture fills, split brushes, and edge shading, to construct your illustration with realistic techniques! You probably have rich experience using pattern brushes, scatter brushes, or messy brushes of all kinds, so this collection is a rare opportunity to try something completely new and challenging.
Woodcuts Illustrator Brushes Set
Meet our favorite vector brush pack with a vintage look from Guerillacraft. You will find 55 no-stretch brushes for Illustrator and 15 woodcut patterns with free TIFF textures as a bonus. For your best comfort, there’re multiple versions of the brushes, like the mirror ones. And, of course, the pack includes two basic versions, clean and rough. Adding a bit of pragmatism: the collection will save you tons of time and is perfectly tooled for a graphics tablet. Don’t hesitate to involve them in your illustrations, commercial projects, brand design, social media posts, etc.!
Stipple Shading Brushes for Illustrator
The fine-liner and a bunch of true excitement to create these free halftone illustrator brushes for your graphic experiments! Just look: every stroke of these high-quality brushes by Spoon Graphics is meant to become something unique: a trendy logo, a print, or an illustration with a fancy play of texture and shade. So you are invited to discover this vector pack of eight stipple shading brushes to draw grungy details onto your artwork easily.
Classic Chalk — Brushes+Patterns
As a creative tool, chalk has so many uses — for menu boards, hand-lettering, and as a learning aid in the classroom. This set of authentically detailed digital chalk & charcoal brushes for Adobe Illustrator CS5+ is no different! They are sourced from actual chalk marks, so you can create brush strokes that are grungy, rough, and imperfect. Also, this brush pack is realistic, which is the most important for your creative projects, which require adding texture!
Fine Liner Brushes & Patterns
Pleased to present this versatile Illustrator brush set packed with line art & ink vector brushes of various styles: straight and rough, dots and dashes, stippling, hatching, zigzags, and more. Most use the pattern brushes feature, which tiles a section along the stroke, so the brushes don’t over-stretch on long strokes. You will also have a few outline art brushes for shorter sections and a seamless pattern brush set designed to fill large areas quickly.
Free Japan Brushes for Illustrator
This brush set contains your best free illustrator brushes for inking, 39 in total. Each of these calligraphic brushes was created with an eye on designers’ and artists’ needs who seek to discover the ancient Japanese style. So now you can quickly master the skill of traditional Asian calligraphy without spending a cent to realize your creative cravings! Draw stunning imagery and use it to decorate your cards, posters, labels, packaging, and more.
Flow Brushes For Illustrator
This Illustrator brush set from Guerillacraft contains 68 vector brushes seasoned with a clean contemporary art style. Even though they’re no-stretch, the ink lines turn out to be soft and clean anyway, which adds a handicraft feeling to the whole collection. And the multiple color versions for each brush stroke will broaden your horizons and inspire you for ingenious creative projects.
Fabric Kingdom Illustrator Edition
If you, as a designer, have found yourself tired of identical drawing toolkits, let us hold you a hand! Place all the overused Illustrator brush styles aside and prepare for something special, the Fabric Kingdom! It is a huge graphic collection founded on a passion for unconventional solutions and layer styles. It delivers everything you need to create adorable, eye-catching designs that will stand out as easily as possible: 14 graphic styles, over 500 vector illustrations, and 280+ stitch vector brushes.
Real Marker Brushes for Illustrator
These 25 markers were scanned in 2400 dpi, cleaned, sharpened, released from boring white pixels, separated on layers, then taken back to their original size with 300 dpi, which provides maximum quality. And now you have a pack of free illustrator brushes which you can import to your library and set for grunge designs and modern art pieces.
Illustrator Vintage Engraving Brushes
Inside this set, you will find 70 premium Illustrator brushes to suit your creative projects. Using these halftone vector brushes is simple: select a suitable one and create strokes with Illustrator’s brush tool. What’s even cooler is that you’ll save lots of time using the multi-lined brushes to create the retro effect, so the engraving looks authentic, and you’ll preserve minor details.
Free Spray Paint Stipple Brushes for Illustrator
The author of this pack was inspired by modern illustrations made with spray paints and ink. So if you’d like to create similar artworks, you can use these free Illustrator brushes! The pack includes stipple and spray brushes of various intensities and textures. The vector format allows playing with different graphic styles and realistic brush strokes and is there for your creative freedom.
Graphic Beats Illustrator Brushes
Free Vintage Shading Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
Give your creative projects an old etched or engraved appearance with a pack of 30 free Adobe Illustrator brushes by Spoon Graphics. The pattern brushes feature a variety of hand-drawn lines that can be used to apply shading to your design work. After being scanned from hand-made pen strokes, they were processed into Illustrator brushes that repeat paths of any length without deforming.
Grain Shader Brushes For Illustrator
Add texture, depth, grain, shadow, and form to your work with the grain shader brush set featuring ultra-shady Illustrator scatter brushes. Celebrating a huge selection of authentic textures, these halftone vector brushes are ideal for adding everything from bold, grunge shading and drop shadows to subtle speckle accents and detailed grain overlays. The pack includes 25 Illustrator brush strokes and 10 overlay textures in two formats.
Arrow Head Vector Set
It’s all here: from basic arrows symbolizing motion, transition, or repeats to the most grotesque and inventive directions! However, it doesn’t matter how bizarre included doodles are; you can master all the free Adobe Illustrator brushes. Simply apply any of 20 strokes to any shape, path or drawing to make an authentic hand-drawn outline or the most refined arrowed line in the industry.
60 Vector Texture Brushes
We bet you won’t say no to the custom-made texture Illustrator brushes, imitating crosshatching, fuzz, bristles, or aerosol spray! From subtle to heavy, this great pack has everything you need to prepare the visual candy for any project: kids’ illustrations, fan art, client, and personal projects. There are 60 high-quality illustrator brushes, each with a unique texture, so you can combine them the way you need and get a stunning drawing.
80’s Press — Illustrator Brushes
As with the other brush packs by Guerillacraft, this ultimate collection of retro styles, actions & great illustrator brushes is splendid! This issue is inspired by 80’s text effects and cheap one-color print techniques used in comic books, on LP covers, or posters from that era. You can use 80’s Press in your logos, lettering, or one-color print designs — besides, it’s completely free.
Retro Cartoon Mascot Toolkit
A complete toolkit of time-saving stamp and ink art brushes for drawing retro-style mascots! Become a retro cartoonist for a while, creating rubberhose or inkblot-style cartoon characters, sports & product mascots. There are 250 vector brushes and pre-drawn cartoon elements for use in Illustrator. But the best news is that this big bundle works in other apps, too: there are files for Procreate, Affinity Designer, and Photoshop.
Vector Brushes Collection
Minimalistic as they are, these free Adobe Illustrator brushes get their inspiration from traditional Asian calligraphy, line art, and vintage motifs. Be ready to save them to your Creative Cloud library and discover different stippling variations. The sample pack includes 12 brush stroke samples. And it will make you feel like a professional illustrator, allowing you to experiment with inking technique and draw art inspired by ancient Chinese and Korean engravings.
Vector Watercolor Brushes for Illustrator
A large brush pack of 44 different Adobe Illustrator brushes perfectly creates flawless floral elements for your posters, business cards, banners, and other creative projects! And there is so much authenticity in it! The provided watercolor brushes consist of 100% authentic stroke assets made on paper, then scanned, vectorized, and cleaned, so you can b sure your creative work will look like it was painted on paper, not in Illustrator.
Gouache Shader Brushes Illustrator
If you’ve ever seen graphics with rich classic textures full of depth, this vector brush pack is for you. It will help you easily achieve the desired effect and draw the most amusing children’s illustrations. This big collection features 53 gouache Illustrator brushes. They look vibrant and are equally suitable for drawing, adding texture, or when you have to paint grungy details.
Frequently Asked Questions
Check Creative Market, Design Cuts, Envato Elements, and Pixelbuddha to expand your collection of Adobe Illustrator brushes. There you will easily find various tools for drawing: pencil, ink, texture, oil paint, line art, and even bristle brushes. Or you can browse through this selection from The Designest, where lots of paid and free brushes are featured.
