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We’ve put together a collection of our favorite, high-quality Photoshop and Illustrator brushes, to help you put the perfect finishing touch on your next design.

A Photoshop or Illustrator brush is, at its simplest, exactly what you’d expect — a way to draw a particular line or style in a Photoshop or Illustrator document. Click, drag, and paint like you’re using a brush! But in practice, brushes can be used for so much more. From textures and patterns to lighting and stylish effects, the versatility shown in these examples will give a great idea of what’s possible with a top-notch brush pack!

We’ve also covered off some Illustrator & Photoshop brush FAQs to help answer some common questions.

Liquid Style Illustrator Brushes

If you’re a fan of retro-style brush designs, this is a must-have bundle for you. It features more than 80 different brushes for illustrator featuring a design that mixes retro style with modern elements. It’s perfect for creative illustrations and icon design work.

• Works With: Illustrator CS5+
• Number Of Brushes: 80+

Mosaic Maker – Brushes & Patterns for Illustrator

This is a unique bundle of Illustrator brushes and patterns that allows you to create your own creative mosaic designs. With this kit, you can create illustrations, backgrounds, and various other artwork in mosaic style. What makes it even better is that the resources are designed with original Roman source material from the 4th Century AD.

• Works With: Illustrator CS1+
• Number Of Brushes: NA

Love Lettering – Photoshop Stamp Brushes

A collection of stylish stamp brushes for Photoshop. You can use this brush set to design romantic titles, ornaments, and more for your various print and digital designs. The brushes are compatible with Photoshop, Affinity Designer, and Procreate.

• Works With: Photoshop CC, Affinity Designer
• Number Of Brushes: 10

Genuine Mystic Photoshop Stamps & Brushes

This pack includes more than 150 stamps and brushes for Photoshop. It features 50 plant stamps, 100 fantasy brushes, 1 paper texture, and 35 female poses packed into one bundle. The brushes are compatible with Photoshop and Procreate.

• Works With: Photoshop, Procreate
• Number Of Brushes: 100+

Spray & Hatch Free Illustrator Brushes

This free Illustrator brushes pack is perfect for artists to create simple sketches with creative textures. It features 10 spray and 10 hatch brushes for giving your artworks a hand-drawn look and feel.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 20

Fabric Kingdom Photoshop Edition

A massive bundle full of brushes and resources for designers and artists. This pack comes with lots of different design resources, including 280 stitch brushes along with layer styles, and 500 vector illustrations.

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 280+

The Ultimate Texture Brush Library

This is a collection of texture brushes for Adobe Illustrator. It features various styles of texture brushes, including outline, shaders, scatter, and more. The brushes are available in 17 different sets, each with its own selection of brushes.

• Works With: Illustrator CS1+
• Number Of Brushes: 17 sets

Stipple Brushes for Illustrator

Stipple brushes are quite useful when adding shading to retro illustrations and designs. This collection includes 18 stipple brushes you can use for just that. There are 9 different brushes in 2 styles.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 18

30 Tech Photoshop Stamp Brushes

You can create amazing technology-themed patterns and backgrounds using this collection of Photoshop brushes. They are also perfect for adding decorative elements to graphic designs and crafting visual effects.

• Works With: Photoshop CS2+
• Number Of Brushes: 30

Free Watercolor Photoshop Stamp Brushes

This free brush kit comes in multiple formats allowing you to use them with both Photoshop and Procreate. The bundle 57 different watercolor stamp brushes with various styles.

• Works With: Photoshop, Procreate
• Number Of Brushes: 57

Shader Brushes for Photoshop

This pack of Photoshop brushes is made for doing all kinds of shading work in Photoshop. It includes a total of 35 brushes featuring shading brushes, noise brushes, edge brushes, and much more.

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 35

Outstanding Oil Paint Brushes for Illustrator

This bundle of creative Illustrator brushes is perfect for artists and designers for creating stylish illustrations that look like oil paintings. The pack comes with 50 different brushes with no-stretch pattern designs.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 50

Plexus Glass Shapes Photoshop Brushes

This is a unique brush pack that features a modern glass shape stroke design. These brushes are most suitable for crafting futuristic designs, patterns, and backgrounds. The bundle includes 10 different Photoshop brushes.

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 10

The Retro Comic Book Tool Kit

This pack of Illustrator brushes is made specifically for artists and illustrators who draw in retro and comic themes. The bundle includes 84 unique vintage brushes for drawing authentic retro artworks. It also comes with 4 Bitmap patterns, 2 grunge edge overlays, and a set of comic book layer styles.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 84

55 Watercolor Illustrator Brushes

A collection of unique watercolor brushes for Illustrator. It includes a set of unique brushes that give your drawings a natural flowing look. The pack also includes a set of brushes with pressure sensitivity for tablets.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 55

30 Free Vintage Shading Brushes for Illustrator

This is a set of creative Illustrator brushes that feature creative vintage-style designs. The pack comes with 30 unique brushes you can use for shading and pattern design.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 30

Digital Painting Free Photoshop Brushes

A massive bundle of Photoshop brushes made by a professional designer. It includes 80 different brushes you can use for digital paintings for free.

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 80

Scribble & Scrawl Brushes

Just as the name suggests, this bundle of Illustrator brushes is made for scribbling and scrawling. It comes with a set of brushes that gives a quirky look to your drawings and make them look as they were drawn by a child.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 44

Doodle Brush Collection

A massive bundle of 50 different brushes for all your doodling needs. This pack includes all types of doodling brushes you can use with your various illustration needs. All of the brushes in this pack are made with real pen and pencil scans.

• Works With: Illustrator CC
• Number Of Brushes: 50

Illustrator Arrow-Shaped Art Brushes

This pack of Illustrator brushes includes nothing but arrows. It includes a total of 39 brushes featuring different styles of arrow shapes and designs. You can easily resize and add colors to these arrow brushes as well.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 39

Rope Brush Set with Stylish Anchor ABC

This is a set of Illustrator brushes that features rope-like designs. You can use these to create stylish borders and illustrations. It also comes with an Alphabet featuring rope style designs for letters as well.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 11

131 Free Hand Drawn Brushes

Another big bundle of Illustrator brushes. This pack includes 131 brushes with various textured designs. They are also completely free to use with your personal and commercial projects.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 131

Free Vector Brush Set for Illustrator

This free vector brushes are made for designing artworks and illustrations. The free bundle includes 8 unique brushes with hand-crafted designs.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 8

22 Splatter Brushes Pack

This pack of splatter brushes for Photoshop comes with 22 unique brushes you can use with your various graphic designs. The brushes feature unique and realistic designs and come with vector files as well.

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 22

20 Smoke Photoshop Brushes

Design unique smoke effects for your graphics, wallpapers, posters, and flyer designs using this pack of smoke brushes. It comes with 20 unique and customizable brush designs.

• Works With: Photoshop CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 20

Supreme Acrylic & Gouache Photoshop Brushes

A bundle of professional acrylic and gouache brushes for Photoshop. This pack features various brushes with dry, wet, thick, dense, quick stroke designs. The brushes in the pack are also touch sensitive and they’ll work well with tablets as well.

• Works With: Photoshop CS3
• Number Of Brushes: 27

Watercolor ProBrush

• Works With: Illustrator CS3
• Number Of Brushes: 83

This is a collection of high-quality watercolor style brushes for Illustrator. Each brush in this pack is handmade and comes in different styles, including watercolor dry brushes, strokes, realistic brushes, and more.

Sketch ProBrush

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 72

The perfect brush pack for digital sketch artists. This Sketch brush pack includes 72 handmade brushes in various designs, along with a set of sketch patterns.

10 Free Illustrator Art Brushes

This is a set of free Illustrator brushes designed for artists and illustrators. It includes 10 different art brushes you can use to draw illustrations and artworks.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 10

Free Sharpie Marker Vector Brushes

Using this free Illustrator brush pack, you’ll be able to draw in the style of sharpies. This pack comes with 21 different sharpie marker style brushes with bullet, thin, and magnum style designs.

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 21

30 Stroke Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 30

This pack comes with 30 unique Photoshop stroke brushes. You can use these brushes for decorating your graphic designs, creating textures, patterns and much more.

Vintage Atomic Texture Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 20

A set of Photoshop brushes with grunge designs. It’s ideal for adding a vintage or a worn out old look to your designs. The brush pack features 20 brushes, a mockup file, and the original image scans that were used to design the brushes.

Paint ProBrush

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 26

The professional brushes in this Illustrator brush pack mimic the strokes of a paint brush in its designs. The pack includes 26 high-quality handmade brushes for creating various designs.

Hand Lettering Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 74

This pack includes 74 high-quality brushes that can be used for creating unique hand lettering designs of your own. It comes with brushes with various strokes, lengths, and thickness for crafting unique designs.

Hand-Painted Art Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator

A set of unique hand-painted brushes for creating unique designs in Illustrator. These are perfect for banners, paint swipes, text highlighting, adding rough edges, and much more.

20 Splatter Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 20

These brushes are perfect for your texture, pattern, and decoration designs. The 20 splatter brushes in this pack also come with their vector files, if you feel like customizing them on your own.

Megapack Of Chalks For Adobe Illustrator

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 120

This is a massive collection of 120 chalk and charcoal brushes, all of which are perfect for illustrators and artists. Especially for drawing chalkboard illustrations.

Japan ProBrush

• Works With: Illustrator CS3
• Number Of Brushes: 39

A pack of digital, ink, brush, and Asian calligraphy brushes for creating your designs with a touch of Asian inspiration. The brushes are ideal for everything from hand lettering to creating patterns and more.

Natural Shades Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 40

The natural and pressure sensitive shades brushes in this pack are ideal for every illustrator and designer for adding shades, textures, and even adding a handmade look to your designs. It comes with 40 resizable brushes.

Essential Vector Brushes Collection

• Works With: Illustrator CS3
• Number Of Brushes: 150

This massive bundle of brushes features 150 brushes in many different types, including watercolor brushes, pencil, charcoal, and much more. The perfect collection for artists and illustrators.

Technical Drawing Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 50+

A set of brushes you can use for different types of technical drawings and sketches, like blueprints, maps, and architectural drawings. The bundle includes over 50 unique brushes and 5 bonus patterns.

ProBrush Pressure Sensitive

• Works With: Illustrator CS3
• Number Of Brushes: 10

This pack contains 10 brushes for professional artists and illustrators. These brushes are also pressure sensitive, which means they will work well with your drawing pads.

74 Handcrafted Splatter Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 74

A handmade brush pack that’s been made using Acrylic Ink on Paper. It features over 70 unique splatter brushes for adding decorations to your designs, creating textures, and more.

64 Watercolor Blob Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 64

An amazingly beautiful and high-quality set of brushes that can be used to add overlay effects to your digital artworks and designs. It includes 64 different watercolor blob brushes between 850 – 1200px resolution.

Wood Grain Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 18

Created by live-tracing photos of real wood, these wood grain brushes are simply perfect for adding texture and depth to your illustrations and designs. It comes with 13 wood art brushes and 5 wood cross-section scatter brushes.

Pastels Illustrator Brush-Kit

• Works With: Illustrator CS3
• Number Of Brushes: 43

Pastels are not just for kids. Even grown up designers and illustrators love them. Especially when it comes to designing comics and grunge style illustrations. This pack of 43 pastel brushes is made just for them.

Rope Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 14

Decorate your nautical and industrial designs using this set of beautiful brushes. It includes 14 brushes in 7 unique designs, each with regular and torn ended designs.

Chalk ProBrush + Vector Elements

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 59

This two-in-one bundle of brushes and vectors feature 59 chalk brushes, 2 chalkboard textures, and 50 more chalkboard elements, everything you need to design a cool chalkboard illustration or an artwork.

Cut Edge Brushes For Adobe Illustrator

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 52

The brushes in this pack feature a woodcut/linocut like designs for adding a unique touch to your illustrations and designs. It comes with 52 unique cut edge brushes.

Illustrator Chain Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 9

This brush set is perfect for adding stylish borders, decorating text, dividers, logos, and much more. It comes with several unique chain brushes, including chains with metal effect, etched chain, outline, and more.

Antique Print Effect Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 32

These brushes are designed to help you give your illustrations and designs a vintage look. The 32 brushes in this pack will let you achieve that vintage print effect for your designs.

Scribbler Brushes For Adobe Illustrator

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 42

This is a unique pack of 42 scribbler brushes that’s been designed inspired by Mid-century illustrations. In addition to the handmade brushes, it also includes 6 scatter brushes.

Doodle Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 60+

A set of fun and entertaining doodle brushes. Best for crafting all your fun designs, including sketches for kids, illustrations, comics, and more. The pack includes 11 zigzag doodle brushes, 11 simple doodle brushes, 23 scribbled doodle brushes, and more.

Illustrator Painted Canvas Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 67

This bundle of 67 painted canvas brushes is designed for adding texture, depth, edge, and decorations for your designs. It features sets of different angled, narrow, messy, and many other painted canvas brushes.

Grit, Grunge & Grain Scatter Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 24

A set of handmade brushes featuring various styles for all your texture building design work. The brushes in this pack are easy to use and will fit most types of graphic design, digital art, and illustration works.

Splat And Spray Pro Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 47

This bundle features 30 spray painted brushes and 17 splatter acrylic brushes. All of which are available in 700px to 2000px high resolutions. They are best for adding special grungy effects to your designs.

Neon Brushes

• Works With: Illustrator CS5
• Number Of Brushes: 30+

A set of unique brushes that will take neon sign designs to a whole another level. This pack includes over 30 different flexible neon tube brushes. You can use them to design digital art, signage, and more.

80 Geometric Shape Brushes

• Works With: Photoshop
• Number Of Brushes: 80

The high-resolution brushes in this pack come in 2500 x 2500px resolutions. With the collection of 80 unique shapes, you can use this brush pack to design unique art, logos, badges, and more.

Shader Brushes For Adobe Illustrator

• Works With: Illustrator
• Number Of Brushes: 22

The brushes in this pack are made just for making texture shades. They can also be used for borders and to add shadows. The pack includes 22 unique brushes.

ProBrush 100

• Works With: Illustrator CS3+
• Number Of Brushes: 100

Last, but not least, a massive bundle of 100 Illustrator brushes for all your design needs. This pack includes classic, dry, watercolor, noise, scratched, and many other types of brushes. All in one pack.

5 Common FAQs for Illustrator & Photoshop Brushes

Here we answer some of the most common questions people ask about Illustrator and Photoshop brushes.

1. How to Install Photoshop and Illustrator Brushes

If you’re wondering how to install and use brushes in Photoshop, follow the steps below.

1. First, download the brush pack. If it arrived in a ZIP file, unZIP to extract the files and locate the ABR file that contains all the brushes
2. Open Photoshop and go to Edit menu >> Presets >> Preset Manager
3. On the Preset Manager, select Brushes as Preset Type and click on the Load button
4. Now browse your computer to find the downloaded ABR file and open it to load the new brushes into the Photoshop brush library

On Illustrator, simply navigate to Window >> Brushes Libraries >> Other Library and select the brushes you want to import to the brush library.

2. Why Brushes Are Pixelated in Photoshop?

A common problem many Photoshop users run into when using brushes is sometimes when they draw using a brush it appears pixelated. This is not a fault with the brush or the app itself. It happens mainly when you’re using the Pencil tool instead of the Brush tool. Or it could be because you’ve changed the Brush Mode to a setting like Dissolve.

3. Using Illustrator Brushes with Drawing Pads

Not all brushes are fully compatible with drawing pads like Wacom tablets. If you do a lot of hand-drawing work using drawing pads, make sure to get brushes that are compatible or optimized for drawing tablets.

4. Different Types of Brushes

Both Photoshop and Illustrator have brushes in various designs and styles such as calligraphy, sketch brushes, line art brushes, texture brushes, and much more. Just as the names suggest, these brushes are used for calligraphy designs, adding texture, sketching, etc.

Understanding how these different types of brushes work will help you find the right type of brush for your design.

5. Brush Blending Modes

Similar to layer blending modes, Brushes in Illustrator also supports blend modes that can be used to create unique designs. However, not all blend modes convert well in professional designs. Just as we described in a previous point, some blend modes can cause pixelated looks and some might appear distorted when printed. Use them wisely.

If you’re new to Photoshop and different kinds of brushes, be sure to check out our beginner’s guide to using scatter brushes in Photoshop and also grab a set of free cloud brushes.