30 Free Sketchy-Style Brushes
Tutorials | July 16th, 2008
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!
Brushes Update!
Because of my exclusivity contract with iStockphoto, I cannot distribute these brushes for free. Sorry for any problems this might cause. If you want to create these type of brushes, check out my post Create Sketchy-Style Vectors. This tutorial will show you how to create brushes similar to the ones below.
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.
I do have to say thanks for these brushes, they will come in handy
Thanks for the Brushes Rype! These are great!
Nice Brushes you have here!
Just exactly what i need for a project right now. thanks!
thx a lot ;o)
Very nice for that hand-drawn look. Thanks!
Nice brushes, definately downloading them
Very cool brushes, thanks !
Thumbs up!
thank yu!
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!
Awesome brushes. Will definitely help on a few new things I’m working on.
Awesome brushes. Thanks for sharing them!
Great brushes, Thank you so much for providing useful information, sources and educating us.
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.
Thanks!
is it allowed to use these brushes for commercial illustrations?
thanx!
Tony,
Yup, commercial use is fine.
I get a DNS lookup error when trying to download the brushes :[
Taylor,
Try it again, I think it is fixed now.
these are cool brushes…they’ll be in a handy – ala-mcgyver…a swiss army knife (brushes)..thanks
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.
woah thanks a lot for this,its rad.i learned a lot so quickly XD!
Thanks for sharing! Sincerely !
Any chance of these being available for download again. Maybe even some of them?
Thanks
Matt,
Probably not any time soon
Check out some of ColorBurned’s brushes as alternatives.
http://colorburned.com/freebies/
I was wondering if anyone can hock me up with these brushes !
will really appreciate !
MUY Buen tutorial
Great work and even greater brushes .. keep it up
Thanks for taking the time to write the tutorial, although I’m bummed that the brushes are no longer available. Just curious, what’s the purpose of taking them down despite all the requests? Just like teasing people?
Will these brushes be offered via iStockPhoto or any other avenue? I looked at your iStockPhoto link and didn’t see anything like this listed. Thanks!
I still don’t have them up on iStock yet, but hopefully soon.
Exclusivity with istockphoto?? One of the funniest things i’ve ever heard.
were i can find this brushes ???
Thank you for sharing this really a big help for designer like us. good job
great tutorial!!
help me a lot with my assignment XD
how to download?
good!
how to download this brushes?