30 Free Sketchy-Style Brushes

When creating the previous Create Sketchy-Style Vectors tutorial, I created a number of brushes. I started playing around with the brushes and was happy with the results. I ended up create more of the brushes so I can distribute them. These brushes are great for creating sketchy or grungy vectors. Just apply the brushes to any path or object!

How To Use The 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. Try playing with the Stroke of the brushes for different results. Below is some example uses of the brushes.

Save Brushes For Easy Use
You can also save the brushes so you don’t have to open the Illustrator file every time you want to use them. To save, click the bottom left pop up menu of the Brush Panel and select Save. Illustrator will default you to correct folder to save the brushes. To call up the brushes on a new document, click the pop-up menu of the Brush Panel and select the saved set from the User Defined option.



Andrew
July 16th, 2008
I do have to say thanks for these brushes, they will come in handy
Kreativuse™
July 16th, 2008
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Grant Friedman
July 16th, 2008
Thanks for the Brushes Rype! These are great!
Alexis
July 16th, 2008
Nice Brushes you have here!
MattT
July 16th, 2008
Just exactly what i need for a project right now. thanks!
plechi
July 17th, 2008
thx a lot ;o)
Blue Buffalo
July 17th, 2008
Very nice for that hand-drawn look. Thanks!
Craig Farrall
July 17th, 2008
Nice brushes, definately downloading them
Polo
July 17th, 2008
Very cool brushes, thanks !
.m
July 18th, 2008
Thumbs up!
thank yu!
Debra
July 20th, 2008
Tried to DL these brushes but keep getting a server error- is there a problem with the file or is it on my sire of things? Nice tutorial and brushes, as usual!
Michigan Web Design
July 20th, 2008
Awesome brushes. Will definitely help on a few new things I’m working on.
lunchboxbrain
July 21st, 2008
Awesome brushes. Thanks for sharing them!
Stan
July 21st, 2008
Great brushes, Thank you so much for providing useful information, sources and educating us.
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July 25th, 2008
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VECTORTUTS
July 28th, 2008
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Rype
July 28th, 2008
As you can see from the comment above, my tutorial Illustrate a Grunge Style Talking Skull in Vector is up.
This tutorial will show you how to use some of these brushes in an illustration.
Luke
July 28th, 2008
Thanks!
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July 31st, 2008
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Tony
September 3rd, 2008
is it allowed to use these brushes for commercial illustrations?
thanx!
Rype
September 3rd, 2008
Tony,
Yup, commercial use is fine.
Taylor
September 7th, 2008
I get a DNS lookup error when trying to download the brushes :[
Rype
September 8th, 2008
Taylor,
Try it again, I think it is fixed now.
DesignM.ag
September 8th, 2008
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james
September 29th, 2008
these are cool brushes…they’ll be in a handy - ala-mcgyver…a swiss army knife (brushes)..thanks
Heidi
October 3rd, 2008
Thanks for sharing! They will save me time! I’m noticing, tho, that the brushes knock out color when lines overlap. For example, black strokes turn white where they intersect. Weird. I’m using Illustrator CS2.