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!

The Retro Comic Book Tool Kit

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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

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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

Scribble & Scrawl Brushes

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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

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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

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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

Watercolor Brushes for Photoshop

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A set of professionally designed watercolor brushes for Photoshop. This bundle comes with 30 unique brushes you can use to design beautiful greeting cards, posters, business cards, and much more.

  • Works With: Photoshop
  • Number Of Brushes: 30

Rope Brush Set with Stylish Anchor ABC

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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

22 Splatter Brushes Pack

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

30 Stroke Brushes

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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.