27 Sets of Useful and Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes

By Steven Snell | Published January 20th, 2010 in Resources

For Illustrator users, high-quality brushes can save time and help to produce impressive results. In this post we’ll feature 27 sets of free brushes to spark your work with Illustrator. For more brushes, see 45 Excellent Sets of Adobe illustrator Brushes and 30 Sets of High-Quality Adobe Illustrator Brushes.

Chalk Illustrator Brushes

Illustrator Grunge Brushes

Illustrator Grunge Brushes 2

Scatter Brushes

Brushstokes

Illustrative Brushes

Teardrop Foliage Illustrator Brushes

Vector Marker Brushes

Technix Brushes

Construct Brushes

Ink Sketch Lines

Illustrator Thick Brushes

Smoke Brushes

Woodcuts Brushes

Spanners Brush Pack

Inky Pen Brushes

DRW Brushes

Artistic Brushes

Glowing Blurry Brushes

Rope Brushes

Abstract Brushes

Floral Brush Kit

Circles and Drips Brushes

Dash Dot Brushes

Ornate Borders

Scatter Brushes

Snowflake Illustrator Brushes

For some great Photoshop brushes please see:

19 Comments

Web Design New York on January 20th, 2010

Nice brushes, well done. Thanks!
Kimcool on January 20th, 2010

hoho~Useful brushes,but I need Photoshop brushes:(
neer on January 21st, 2010

nice art and help for designers.
nadun on January 21st, 2010

Thanx a billion. These will help great deal in my future works.
Steven Snell on January 21st, 2010

Kimcool,
There are tons of posts on this site already about Photoshop brushes, see the right sidebar for a list.
Valentina Boscolo on January 21st, 2010

Very very nice. Thanks!! You’re great!
akanksha kukreti on January 21st, 2010

nice brushes… very helpful. Thanks.
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Online Elearning Softwares on January 22nd, 2010

Fantastic Brushes,
Nice post and quality brushes live pictures,
Thanks for sharing
cheers
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Finally – a website listing some decent illustrator brush – great post, thanks!
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Urviho on June 16th, 2010

Nice brushes
TalyasTouch on July 12th, 2010

What a fantastic collection!! Nice range of styles, v. useful
Marty Rogers on July 31st, 2010

Thank you, I really like the scatter brushes. They’ll come in handy with the next project I’m working on… Abstract are pretty, too, but I don’t have anything to use those in yet.
lv on August 9th, 2010

Nice brushes
SEO Nottingham on August 11th, 2010

I like the grunge brushes they’re pretty cool