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Photoshop brushes make any artwork authentic and help to add something new, maybe even personal, to a product. These brushes are important integral tools to create digital art. They are real assistants for artists, illustrators, designers, or those who use them in creative work. So you can find all the necessary (and even more) in this selection.
Essential Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop brushes are tools for drawing lines, shapes and even objects in any color. They help to create an effect of a real painting and give different opportunities for drawing in Photoshop. You can open new horizons, try all painting styles using only a mouse or a tablet and stylus and create breathtaking illustrations thanks to Photoshop brushes.
Here we have a great variety of brushes to help you in the creation of the best digital arts. For instance, there go charcoal, pencil, and watercolor brushes that imitate genuinely original materials, so their diversity aids to emphasize details and lines. You should only choose a needed Photoshop brush and start painting in any style.
Our Team’s Top Pick
Grain Volume II Photoshop Brushes
Grain Volume II is a collection of 24 Photoshop brushes to add textured shading to your illustrations! For this set 3 different categories of grain brushes have been created: fine, medium, and chunky, so you have a range of different textures available. Grain Volume II includes also 1 JPG swatches sheet for a quick preview of all the brushes. You can try this photoshop brush set and fall in love with it. To use them you should have Photoshop CC. For your convenience, I recommend having a tablet with a stylus to better feel brushes during work.
Shader Brushes for Photoshop
Mysterious and textured shader brushes make creative and bright any illustration. Rough hatching in the corners or noisy shades, smoky pressure or sharp edges — vast design choices in one single collection. Now it has 12 additional grain textures to decorate your work and help elaborate product with drawing crayons effect what highlight necessary details in your photographs. Shader brushes also involve 7 shader brushes, 7 noise brushes, 7 hatch brushes, 7 edge brushes, and 7 pressure brushes.
Inkers Brushes for Adobe Photoshop
Inkers is the greatest set which involve 84 ink Photoshop brushes. There is a wide range of tools— from thin ink nibs to old raggy inky ones. They are perfect for lines and adding textures too! Whether you are an illustrator, a comic artist or a letterer, you can find an ideal tool for any goal with any effect. You can achieve various illustration styles with this diverse pack! So this set has 84 ink tools for Adobe Photoshop where all of them are pressure sensitive and a cheatsheet with every brush stroke and its name for your convenience.
Essential Hand-Drawn Brushes
20 Photoshop brushes in all the unimaginable forms and textures were included in the set. You can make images look soft and spongy with strict lining or sketching. Now everything is in your hands! You may create not only images but also headlines and hand lettering products. Don’t worry about the difficulty of their use, this set is provided with a guide and cheat sheets that make your work easier and more convenient. Also, Hand Drawn Brushes are a perfect set for calligraphy!
Grizzly Grain & Stipple Shader Brushes
This pack is perfect for that “rough” distressed effect. With 20 Photoshop brushes you can make an ideal artwork like real artists and illustrators do. The variety from grungy to more stippled and dotted types help to add an extra bit of detail and contrast which brings creativity to every line of your image. Create art with the help of these different digital tools and touch real modern world of artwork! All brushes exist in ABR format.
Stipple Brushes for Photoshop
Do you admire pop art paintings? Then this brush set brings a needed style to your drawings. The collection includes 18 Photoshop brushes in the best traditions of pop art. There are 9 types of this tool, and each of them is available in two styles: stroke and stipple brushes which turn any image into a piece of contemporary art. This pack is an integral part of every illustrator and artist. And you can use the collection of brushes everywhere: logos, prints, illustrations, and emphasize your love for pop art.
Genuine Mystic Photoshop Stamps
Different authentic Photoshop stamps and texture brushes ensure the beauty and creativity of your projects! All stamps add the vibe to paintings. 35 female poses (curvy and slim) add femininity to a design. More than 100 fantasy brushes and 50 plant stamps emphasize the connection with the natural wild world and cosmic bodies. This brilliant collection helps every artist and illustrator to quickly add interesting details. As a bonus in the Photoshop brush set, you find 1 paper texture. You have huge variants of choice and infinite imagination for art.
Printing Press Photoshop Brushes
If you’ve always had a dream of your own publishing house, that’s the sign to get it fulfilled! Let’s see what you have in the toolkit! First of all, there are 18 brushes for Photoshop for retro-styled illustrations. For example, something inspired by the 60s newspapers, 70s posters, or 80s children’s books. Next, there are 6 stroke and 6 grain brushes to help you imitate volume and motion in your artworks.
Scribbles Photoshop Brushes
Return to your childhood and deep into the aching feel of nostalgia with Scribbles brushes. The set of crayon, pencil, spray, liner, and charcoal brushes is an incredible present for everyone. You will be able to create illustrations in different styles with 21 Photoshop brushes. Sketch out the ideas, draw brilliant illustrations, paint all over the photos, do the hand lettering bits and enjoy this creative process with various stoke textures.
Natural Shades Brushes for Adobe Photoshop
Natural Shades brushes are a set of 40 pressure-sensitive ones which add shades, textures, or hand-made marks to your work in Adobe Photoshop effectively. Each brush has a size from 80 to 150 px, but you can regulate it at your discretion without losing details. The Photoshop brushes are saved as tool presets, so you don’t have to lose your time with settings. This pack is an ideal approach for elaborating bright and creative products. Become closer to nature through Natural Shades brushes!
Artista Photoshop Brushes
All the essential tools for creating images were collected in one kit! You may find all the necessary for making beautiful and genuine pictures in Artista. It consists of 61 different Photoshop brushes that open infinite horizons of various styles for drawing. There are spray, stroke, pencil, sketch, and texture brushes to use and at any moment you may polish your work with 10 grunge textures applied. Create a real piece of art together with Artista and the help file becomes your assistant in it.
Master Watercolor Brushes — Ultimate Edition
This digital watercolor set is a versatile assistant for painting. It imitates ingeniously watercolor pictures and helps to paint a fascinating sketch. These brushes are compatible with Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fresco, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Designer! Master Watercolor includes a large spectrum of options: 84 watercolor paintbrushes, 39 wash stamp brushes, 31 splatter ones, 50 color wash textures, 6 paper textures, 20 color palettes, and 7 PDFs tutorials and bonus video.
INK 40 Photoshop Brushes
Ink Photoshop brushes imitate a flat pen loaded with ink. Spray and splash adjust the naturalness and spontaneity of lines to your art. The file contains 37 main brushes imitating various types of pens, 3 blot brushes from the “splashes” brush set and description, documentation, general information, and tips in PDF for your convenience. Make creative products with authentic Ink Photoshop brushes which allow you to reach the effects of ink drawing and hand lettering.
100 Blueprint Mechanics Brushes
The design for science fiction and steampunk with formulas and mathematical graphs is possible now. Blueprint Mechanics brushes are set to make your work a bit futuristic. It contains a wide range of stamp-type brushes including machine parts, graphs, and mathematical formulas. 100 brushes assist flexibility of the pack for a lot of purposes. Also, you find 4 rectangular Blueprint grid backgrounds, 4 circular Blueprint grid backgrounds, colouring brushes, and suits for Adobe Photoshop, Affinity, and Procreate.
Grain Shader Brush Set for Photoshop
Grain Shader is a fantastic set with 4 unique brush styles (fixed stroke width, variable stroke width, grain builders and pressure shaders), 38 ultra-shady texture brushes, 7 pressure-sensitive shader brush tool presets, 1 detailed user guide with easy-to-follow instructions, 1 brush thumbnail cheat sheet and 1 troubleshooting guide for when the unexpected occurs. The pack is ideal for accenting shadows and grain overlay simple effects that add depth to any painting.
Ultimate Brush Toolbox – Pastels
Cute, vivid, and bright picture is what you may create with pastel brushes. And there is no longer a need to waste time searching for the perfect brush. The pack of pastels is a real gift for everyone. It consists of 30 brushes and is ideal for use in Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Designer. As a bonus, you also receive 12 high-resolution surface textures and installation instruction in PDF. Try this set and paint cool illustrations for any taste.
KraftTone Comic Brushes — Photoshop
Feel the nostalgia of vintage comics with this incredible set. KraftTone Comic brushes were elaborated to revive the feeling and help you to paint new products using patterns of comics from the past century. The pack involves 374 color palettes available in lightly distressed dot and line screen tints, 5 high resolution paper texture templates, 1 bonus solid color swatch palette, 1 tutorial video series with detailed instructions, and various Photoshop brushes with distressing, stain, and inking effects.
Perfect Oils: 24 Photoshop Brushes
These 24 Photoshop brushes imitate genuinely realistic oil and acryl paints. The vivid and rich colors, simple color blending, and authenticity of this brush set make it a fantastic and stunning tool pack for painting digital art. This set was developed for Adobe Photoshop and is ideal for working with a tablet. Perfect Oils include installation instruction for your convenience. Create masterpieces without numerous stuff for it, mixed colors of the set, and enjoy amazing results. Release your imagination.
Fine Noise Brush Pack
The set includes 10 brushes with 4 complementing textures which make any image more vivid and complete. The brushes can be used for shading, texturing, and adding depth to your illustration in a quick way. Thanks to subtle and dense gradients you may control the intensity of shadows. And this Photoshop brush style helps to paint retro-feel illustrations and devise your style. Fine Noise pack involves also PDF instruction and is compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Procreate. Perfect pack for the perfect product!
Gouache Textures + Stamp Brushes
Gouache textures and stamp brushes are a set that combines traditional paintings and digital technologies. It includes 6 hand-painted gouache textures in grey, 20 gouache stamp brushes, and 6 gouache textures in green. The textures can be used in any app or software such as Photoshop, Procreate, Affinity and Fresco. But brushes can be used only in Procreate 5 and up or in Photoshop CC. They are also compatible with Adobe Fresco. Create an illustration with ease and add effects to images at your wish!
Abstract Brushes
Abstract brushes are an ideal kit for backgrounds, postcards, branding, logo, presentations and any print. They assist to create designs according to the latest trend. The magnificent set involves 4 set brushes in Photoshop, 31 brushes in the pack, 6 watercolor backgrounds, and 7 abstract backgrounds. You get all the necessary for making creative bright products and realize the most vivid and original ideas. Abstract brushes suit Adobe Photoshop. Add your features to your work through this incredible pack.
Raw Watercolor PS & Procreate Stamps
Raw Watercolor is a gorgeous set of 135 abstract stamps created with watercolor, especially for digital painting. Each Photoshop brush keeps the authentic style of aquarelle and creates the effect of a hand-drawn image. If it is necessary you may change the size, color, blending mode, and rotation of brushes. This pack is perfect for different products from print to branding and stationery design. Raw Watercolor is compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Procreate. Combine brushes and painting styles to create the best product for any taste.
AD Impastoshop — Thick Paint Machine
AD Impastoshop includes a set of more than 30 special layer styles, 15 background textures and more than 70 amazing brushes that work with the pressure-sensitive capabilities of your pen tablet. All this stuff makes it the main tool for digital drawings. Thanks to different layers, textures and brushes you can add depth to any detail. Combine brushes and styles, experiment with color and textures and create the most incredible product in your career. Everything is in your hands.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our collection contains variety of Photoshop brushes. There are fascinating brushes imitating charcoal, watercolor, gouache, ink, and even pencil for sketching. You can find more Photoshop brush sets (paid and free) on Pixelbuddha, Pixelsuplus, Design Cuts or Creative Market.
This collection includes plenty of free Photoshop brushes. For example, Graphite Pencil, Grunge brushes kit, Watercolor Hand Painted Brushes, or Spray Slatter Photoshop brushes. Moreover, you can find different free brushes on Pixelbuddha and Pixelsuplus.
The best brush in Photoshop is the brush that you have chosen. It depends on your painting style and the supplies which you’ve got used to. We have united all possible Photoshop brushes in this collection. So, just view it thoroughly and select the most suitable set for your work. For instance, Vintage Comics Halftone brushes, Genuine Mystic Photoshop stamps, Perfect Oils, or Natural Shades brushes.
Check the Photoshop brushes from our selection. Most of them are free and correspond to real paints, pencils, and ink. Also, you may find various free brush sets for any drawing style on Pixelbuddha and Pixelsuplus.
