16 “Sketchy” Illustrator Brushes

Here are a bunch of Adobe Illustrator brushes. These are the first set of Illustrator brushes that I am releasing. I was excited to put them together. If you find them useful, all I ask in return is that you leave a comment, tweet or otherwise spread the word about this post.

How I created these Illustrator brushes

I made these Illustrator brushes using a permanent marker on paper, then scanned them in at 600dpi. If you want to make sketchy brushes yourself, I would recommend trying paint brushes. And if you do, share them in comments below – we would be glad to feature them in a post.

Adobe Illustrator Brushes free download

Download free Illustrator brushes pack

Download source Illustrator file (.ai, 1mb)

You can use them for personal and commercial projects, but resell/redistribution is not allowed.

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Comments
  1. Max | Design Shard said at 5:55 pm on October 1, 2008

    wow awesome work, cant wait to try these out.

  2. Danh ba web 2.0 said at 1:16 pm on November 3, 2008

    Thanks for share ! Great post

  3. Foto München said at 5:19 am on February 11, 2009

    Excellent work mate, thanks for inspiration.

  4. sivas resimleri said at 2:34 pm on March 6, 2009

    very good, thanks

  5. whrwhr said at 12:00 am on May 12, 2009

    thank you for your efforts, i am an illustrator user, and will use these brushes

  6. Fetching Brushes said at 12:35 am on June 9, 2009

    These brushes would really come in handy when I am creating illustrations.

  7. Fred D said at 9:38 am on June 19, 2009

    Just what I was looking for! Looks great! Thanks!

  8. wes store said at 5:30 pm on July 1, 2009

    Going try these with my inteos4…kudos

  9. Pyrokinetik said at 4:49 am on July 17, 2009

    Nice brushes. Also, if you wish to you might want to check out this little brushes collection:

    http://www.logobee.com/press56.htm

  10. Sumesh said at 6:37 am on July 17, 2009

    Thanks for your suggestion, looks good.

  11. kate said at 1:07 pm on August 11, 2009

    cool can wait to try~

  12. liz said at 1:21 am on October 9, 2009

    thankyou! I am slightly new to illustrator- and trying expand my capabilities.

  13. Photoshop Brushes | Brushes For Photoshop said at 3:20 pm on November 21, 2009

    nice brushes! thank for share!

  14. dugost said at 11:51 pm on December 9, 2009

    Thanks so much for sharing!

  15. Azterik Media said at 8:23 pm on December 11, 2009

    Excellent work, thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to try these out.

  16. yoannis said at 4:20 pm on May 1, 2010

    very very very nice look

  17. Joe said at 12:13 am on May 6, 2010

    Nice man; Thanks!

  18. sanil storybox said at 12:01 pm on September 14, 2010

    Thanks! this is inspiring..!!

  19. Jonathan Patterson said at 5:14 am on October 7, 2010

    Very cool. Thanks for making these! 8)

  20. Chris said at 4:00 am on October 26, 2010

    Awesome

  21. Tom J said at 4:53 pm on November 26, 2010

    Thanks for making these burshes. I like them.

  22. Vlad said at 2:21 am on December 20, 2010

    Thank you very much for the brushes :)

  23. Steve said at 8:46 am on January 26, 2011

    Really nice brushes. Brought my job to life. Thanks!

  24. Duong Truong said at 3:35 pm on March 17, 2011

    nice brushes, thank you !

  25. buzztrip said at 7:13 am on June 5, 2011

    Congratulations! must be exciting launch your first set of brushes. must be exciting “the feel” to share your knowledge!

  26. rougebeast said at 2:26 pm on July 17, 2011

    great work! thanx a lot!

  27. pm said at 1:04 am on December 17, 2011

    Yeah, yeah, so great and stuff, but for some reason all brushes are black and I cannot change the colour.

  28. cindy said at 7:04 am on March 16, 2012

    Is there a way we can use to change the brush color from black to other? I can’t seem to change it..

  29. cindy said at 7:17 am on March 16, 2012

    Oh, nvm. I just found the way. For those who are in the dark like me, go to Brushes > Options of Selected Object > Stroke Options (Art Brush) > Colorization > Method > Hue Shift

    .. and that’s it! :D

    PS: Thank you for the awesome brushes! ;)

  30. Kevin said at 3:26 am on March 22, 2012

    Excellent, will be trying these out as I experiment in print design. Never used Illustrator before. These should get me started.

    Thanks.

  31. Dan said at 10:02 pm on April 3, 2012

    Link is dead, can you send me an updated link? thanks

  32. cuero said at 9:02 pm on April 11, 2012

    Hi, the links are broken…
    :(

  33. marcee said at 8:13 pm on April 21, 2012

    This file appears to be gone or undownloadable? Help?

  34. paul said at 7:31 pm on April 24, 2012

    Any chance for a re-up?

  35. Erica said at 10:42 pm on April 26, 2012

    I would love to try these, but I get this error:

    403 Forbidden
    Access to this resource on the server is denied!

    Help! They look awesome!

  36. Almir S. said at 9:45 am on July 5, 2012

    RE UPLOAD PLEASE!

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