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How to Install Illustrator Brushes

We’ve done it with Photoshop, now telling you how to add brushes to Illustrator.

Milena Abrosimova by Milena Abrosimova
January 24, 2020
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Adobe Illustrator offers creators a wide range of creative possibilities, just like Photoshop does, but with difference in file format first of all. If you’re a rookie in working with Adobe Illustrator brushes particularly, it’s our pleasure to show you how things work.

How to add brushes to Illustrator? It’s easy-peasy as installing Photoshop brushes. Just let you spill the beans about the nature of Illustrator brushes, the way you can add them to your app and how to efficiently apply them to your work and make it fabulous! Depending on the type of Illustrator brushes, you can add the ready-made pattern pieces or draw the way you do on canvas.

What are Illustrator Brushes?

Illustrator brushes represent the carried out presets in .ai format, applied to the stroke of a path or shape. When there’s a bunch of such strokes collected into a set, it’s called the brush library. Here are several types of Illustrator brushes, named after the effect they produce: pattern, calligraphic, scatter, art, and bristle.

How to Add Brushes to Illustrator?

First, you unpack your downloaded Illustrator brushes library, then click Window > Brush Libraries > Other Library and browse the Illustrator brushes you want to work with. There you go, now you have all the tools in their own Brush Library Panel to switch between easily.

Installing Brush Libraries

Here are some helpful tidbits for the smooth work:

  • List View allows to view your Illustrator brushes by name;
List View
  • The Persistent feature makes the brushes load each time Illustrator is restarted.
Persistent Feature
Persistent Feature

Free Illustrator Brushes

Don’t rush into buying a set of Illustrator brushes right away! You need to get better in working with brush libraries through trial and error for a while. Then you can spend your money on some exact Adobe Illustrator brushes once you’ve come up with your favorite style and technique. Here’s a couple of free Illustrator brushes to start with.

Pack of 24 Marker Pen Illustrator Brushes

Pack of 24 Marker Pen Illustrator Brushes

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Easily apply bold hand-drawn effects to your illustrations with the free pack of Marker Pen Illustrator Brushes! Authentically sourced from real pens, these 24 Illustrator brushes 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 give your clean and crisp vector paths the appearance of a handmade doodle with the subtle irregularities produced by ink bleeding into the paper.

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Free Spray Paint Stipple Illustrator Brushes

Free Spray Paint Stipple Illustrator Brushes

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The author of this pack had the idea to carry out a set of free Illustrator brushes made from the spray of a particular spray-paint cap called a “needle cap”. Scattering spray stains around the artboard helps to create the mysterious shading, add some grungy looks, and turn the image into a vintage-resembling piece of art — and it’s only with one set of Illustrator brushes! They’re great for giving some life to your vector graphics, so grad them anytime, ‘cause they’re free.

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Premium Adobe Illustrator Brushes

Don’t rush into buying a set of Illustrator brushes right away! You need to get better in working with brush libraries through trial and error for a while. Then you can spend your money on some exact Adobe Illustrator brushes once you’ve come up with your favorite style and technique. Here’s a couple of free Illustrator brushes to start with.

Gouache Shader Illustrator Brushes

Gouache Shader Illustrator Brushes

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You’re going to get 52 gouache Adobe Illustrator brushes, full of rich and genuine gouache effects. No more hours of searching for weird textures to add on top and then mask in odd angles, forget it! This set of Illustrator brushes works perfectly with a mouse or tablet, so you can enjoy the ease and flexibility of illustrator work for posters, books, and other artwork that must be able to scale. Use these Illustrator brushes how you want: create books, merchandise, posters, vector art, or anything else!

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Marker Illustrator Brushes

Marker Illustrator Brushes

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This professional Illustrator brushes pack contains 25 high-quality digital marker brushes, intended for professional designers, illustrators and artists. It can be a calligraphic composition of yours or a full-fledged illustration, made with marker strokes of these Illustrator brushes. You can choose the width, stroke and transparency of your brush to open the new artistic dimensions within one pack of Adobe Illustrator brushes.

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Free & premium Illustrator brushes

Best Free & Premium Illustrator Brushes

Pull an artist out of yourself — it’s so much simpler if you have the very trick up your designer’s sleeve.

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