Awesome Adobe Illustrator Brushes for inspiration

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful software with the help of which it is possible to give a realistic touch to different kind of sketches. However to make it appear attractive and realistic, the developers need to make use of the different brushes. The graphic designs created with the help of these Adobe Illustrator brushes will be appear as realistic as the hand drawn sketches.

Different kinds of Illustrator brushes are present for getting different effects. Some special vector brushes are present with the use of which the designers can create beautiful curves that are particularly required for designing portraits. Other kinds of brushes are also present with the help of which it is possible to design floral patterns, the effects of using markers, the smoky patterns and other kinds of stylization. Not only have the results of using these brushes have made the designs perfect but at the same time it helps in saving a lot of valuable time as well. So make the best use of these tools to get the most attractive graphic designs of different patterns.

On the internet the web designers are going to come across innumerable number of Adobe Illustrator brushes that claims to produce the perfect results. However, we have selected the thirty best out of them of different categories that are really going to be of great help for them. Download and store them in your library as these are certainly going to help you in your future endeavors to create appealing designs.

1. Line Art Brushes

This brush will make your strokes look like they were drawn with a pencil. Thin were the stroke begins, wider in the middle, and back to thin were the stroke ends.

2. The lazy Illustrator Brushes

These brushes are free for both personal and commercial use. I share them under a share alike license and have included two of the non-altered brush stubs so you’re free to create your own brushes with those if you so desire.

3. Smoke Illustrator Brush pack

The new zip now contains an AI file compatible with Illustrator 9 – CS4

4. 230 Marker Illustrator Brushes

It is 230 free vector marker brushes. The pack includes all shapes, sizes and colors. I tried to include as many colors as possible, but elected for mostly toned down colors, so that they could have a wider range of uses.

5. 30 Free Sketchy Style Brushes

Download the Illustrator file at the bottom of the post and open it in Illustrator. Use your Brush Tool (b) to draw shapes or apply a particular brush to any object by selecting the object and then selecting a brush from the Brush Panel.

6. Spanners

7. Vector Tattoo Wings

Vector tattoo wings. These were all created in tattoo tribal style. Wings have always been trendy symbol of freedom and there are lots of ways these can be used in your designs.

8. Flores

9. Talk Bubble Brushes

10. Hydro nix

11. Construx

New brush set of abstract construct brushes.

12. Mycanthus Brush Pack

13. Technix

Being Illustrator you are encouraged to edit, bend, change, and mutilate to your hearts content; just have fun and make stuff.

14. 34 Swirly Vector Brush

In this set you find two type of brushes: 19 Art Brush and 15 Scatter Brush.

15. Exclusive Illustrator Snowflake Scatter Brushes

This new Vector Freebie is created by Grant Friedman of Color burned. There are 50 brushes in this set. He has been cranking out all sorts of vector and other freebies on his blog. We’re excited to partner up with him on this new Illustrator brush pack release. If your looking to add a winter feeling to your festive illustrations, then check out these snowflake brushes.

16. AI Yumusak Gecisli Brush

17. Brush Set by Celithralia

Adobe Illustrator Brushes. Free for commercial and non-commercial use.

18. Swirly Curls

Swirly Curls Brush Kit – 22 Sick Illustrator Brushes.

19. Fine Hair Brushes

20. 14 Free Scatter Brushes

Here are 14 free brushes, but let’s first take a look at the anatomy of a scatter brush. A new Scatter Brush starts with any vector object you think would look cool scattered along a path. For simplicity’s sake, let’s assume this is a circle with a black fill and no stroke. Drag this circle onto the brushes panel and choose “New Scatter Brush” from the available options.

21. 15 Paint Brushstroke Illustrator Brushes

It’s a pack of 15 high-quality paint brushstroke Illustrator Brushes. I think they came out really cool, and could be used subtly, and for details, as well as full blown paint brush strokes. I’m attaching a preview below of the brushes. Also, I’ve included both a CS3 and CS version of the brushes in the zip file. Enjoy!_Think design.

22. Chalk Illustrator Brushes

23. Marker Brush Set

Set of 20 vector brushes made from a marker on cardboard. Thick and thin brushes which will give any piece of art a grunge look.

24. The Rainbow Brush Kit

25. Floral Illustrator Brushes

We have a new set of floral Illustrator brushes available exclusively for Premiummembers. These are great for using in your design work. There are numerous floral brushes to add a decorative and organic touch to your next design. Learn more at the jump!

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