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Adobe Illustrator Brushes and Brush Libraries

Within the Adobe Illustrator Brushes page below you'll find high quality commercial and free Adobe Illustrator brushes, symbols, symbol libraries, vector images, and more. You'll find commercial and free Illustrator CS4 brushes, CS3 brushes, CS2 brushes, CS brushes, and brushes for older Illustrator versions. Many of the freebies include accompanying Illustrator tutorials and tips, along with other commercial or free Illustrator brushes, symbols, shapes, vector images, and more. Some brush creators also offer beautiful commercial brushes and other graphics products, and trying their free brushes, symbols, etc. are a great way to try out their work prior to purchase. All listings below come highly recommended, and I've personally tried and used quite a few of the Illustrator brushes, vector images, symbols and symbol libraries, shapes, and more.

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Commercial and Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes, Brush Libraries

Below are links to high quality, commercial and free Illustrator brushes and brush libraries - art brushes, border brushes, calligraphic brushes, pattern brushes, scatter brushes, and more. For Web sites and Web site sections devoted to Illustrator brushes, see below, Web Sites, Web Site Sections with Illustrator Brushes, Brush Collections

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9 Free Adobe Illustrator CS3 Brushes and Symbols
Rounded triangle symbols, alert symbols, warning symbols. Includes versions with and without the Web 2.0 style mirrored glass table reflections. Great for websites, blogs, applications, or other purposes. Fully customizable - change the colors, the sizes, etc. Free for personal or commercial use. Available as Illustrator brushes or Illustrator symbols. [Illustrator brushes dated 04/05/2008, by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns, for Brainstorms and Raves.]
28 Free Illustrator Brushes for making Swooshes and Swirls
Beautiful brushes here especially made for creating swooshes, swirls, and curly vector shapes in Illustrator. “This is a brush set meant for making your own custom swoosh, swirl and curl designs.” See also bittbox.com's related tutorial, Illustrator: How to Make Custom Swooshes, Swirls, and Curls. See also WebsiteTips.com's Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Books... [Illustrator Brushes dated 02/25/2007, by bittbox.com.]
30 Illustrator Pattern Brushes for Making Flowers and Circular Designs
30 gorgeous brush tip shapes for use in creating circular design patterns. At the blog post you'll find examples of their use and more information. Download these free Illustrator brushes for CS3, CS1. EPS and SVG for older versions. See also the author's post, Complex Circular Design Techniques for more free circular brushes and a tutorial on creating complex circular design patterns in Adobe Illustrator. [Illustrator Brushes dated 05/06/2007, by bittbox.com.]
35 Free Abstract Illustrator Brushes
35 free and beautiful Illustrator brushes here in a wide variety of abstract shapes. You can also download the source files to create your own brushes in Illustrator or other graphics programs. [Illustrator Brushes dated 04/10/2007, by bittbox.com.]
Celtic Border Brush
Very nice Illustrator border brush - a round, circular border with Celtic design. [Illustrator Brush dated 08/23/2006, by Shurakai-Zero (Stephen Caissie), for DeviantART.]
Free Download: Adobe Illustrator Floral Brushes
Swirls of stems, rounded leaves. Free brushes for Illustrator. [Illustrator Brushes dated 09/24/2007, by bsilvia, Graphics-Illustrations Blog.]
Free Illustrator Brushes: Ink/Watercolor
13 great-looking free Illustrator brushes in this brush library with an ink or watercolor brush effect. Really nice brushes. Download for Illustrator CS3, CS1. [Illustrator Brushes dated 02/13/2008, by bittbox.com.]
Free Illustrator Brushes - Sick Brush Kit 2 “elementals”
“The sick brush kit 2 “Elementals” offers so many options. Create grungy, curly, grassy, flowery designs, also includes a curly pattern brush. Download includes the Illustrator CS or EPS source files seen here and separate brushes only file.” [Article/tutorial dated 01/09/2008, by CreateSk8.]
Free Illustrator Brushes Updated - Sick Brush Kit
22 free Illustrator brushes in this brush library - lots of swirls, curls, swooshes, and more. [Article/tutorial dated 01/09/2008, by CreateSk8.]
PC Cable Brushes
Free brush to create computer cables, electrical cables in Illustrator. “A brush to simulate electrical cables you might find inside a large piece of machinery. The brush is 3D in appearance, complete with highlights and shadows.” [Illustrator Brush by PowerChild, via Illustrator Exchange, Adobe.com.]
Weekly Download: Illustrator Art Brushes
“A library of painterly Illustrator Art brushes that will delight the eye and vanquish those vector-based blues. Our collection of Art Brushes this week includes 25 brush tips, varying in size, shape and, in many cases, blending mode (to help the strokes blend with one another on the canvas). All 25 are entirely vector-based and can also be customized for size, width, directionality, etc.” For Illustrator 10, Illustrator CS, as well as CS2, CS3. [Illustrator Brushes dated 07/11/2003, by David Nagel, for Creative Mac.]
Weekly Download: Illustrator Brushes, Series 3
“10 brush tips, varying in size and shape” For Illustrator 10, Illustrator CS, as well as CS2, CS3.[Illustrator Brushes dated 07/11/2003, by David Nagel, for Creative Mac.]
Weekly Download: Illustrator Brushes, Series 4
20 custom vector-based Art Brushes: “Our collection of Art Brushes this week includes 20 brush tips, varying in shape and depth. All of the brushes in this collection are designed to resemble wet strokes. This time around, the brushes are created at 50 pixels or smaller to accommodate tighter strokes (as well as to make for a smaller download). All of the strokes have wet-style edges, building up in thickness and depth toward the center, and also grow darker when brushed on top of one another. (You can modify this effect by manually switching the blending mode of the brushes.) And, of course, all can be tinted to the colors of your liking.” For Illustrator 10, Illustrator CS, as well as CS2, CS3. [Illustrator Brushes dated 10/17/2003, by David Nagel, for Creative Mac.]
Weekly Download: Illustrator Brushes, Series 5
Another beautiful set of Illustrator brushes by David Nagel. This time, the collection includes thinner wet strokes as well as quite a few textured pencil tips. Their description: “Our collection of brushes this week includes 20 brush tips, 15 of which are textured pencil tips using the Scatter Brush mode, and five of which are thing, wet strokes using the Art Brush mode. Each of the brushes is 12 pixels wide or smaller and can be reduced or enlarged by changing the stroke weight of your object. (Note that custom brushes are can be modified by changing the point width of the stroke. a point size of 1 with a custom brush translates as a 100 percent stroke width; a brush weight of 2 points translates as 200 percent; etc.) The brushes can also be colorized as you see fit.” For Illustrator 10, Illustrator CS, as well as CS2, CS3. [Illustrator Brushes dated 11/03/2003, by David Nagel, for Creative Mac.]

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Web Sites, Web Site Sections with Illustrator Brushes, Brush Collections

Web sites and Web site sections with commercial and free Illustrator brushes and brush collections are listed below. See also above, Commercial and Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes, Brush Libraries.

Adobe Illustrator Brushes
Lots of Illustrator brushes here contributed by the community and also by Adobe. Also helpful listing by categories - Staff Picks, Most Recent, Most Popular, Highest rated. A sampling of brushes: ropes, picket fences, coffee, rainbows, swirly curls, snakes, filmstrip, certificate borders, dots, PC cables, braids, banners, water drops, twine, phone cords, chains, charcoal pencil, stars and sky, butterflies, flowers, plants, leaves, decorative brushes, scroll pen, arrows, map symbols, art deco borders, 19th century deco borders, picture frame borders, music symbols, animal patterns, home and office, so much more. [Illustrator Brushes part of Adobe Illustrator Exchange, Adobe.com.]
Brushes for Adobe ® Illustrator ® CS3 CS2 CS 10 9 8 PC + MAC OS X
Their Illustrator brushes collection includes at least 7,900 brushes. Also available are brushes packs: Square designs, interweave brushes, wavy brushes, basic ink brushes, extreme ink brushes, splattering ink brushes, oozing ink brushes, scratched ink brushes, linear dots brushes, colorful dot brushes, shrinking dots, warped brushes, starburst brushes, flower brushes, circular brushes, fragment brushes, multi-part bits, line brushes, wavy brushes, wavy line brushes, wave brushes, and more. Commercial Illustrator brushes. [Illustrator Brushes by Graphicxtras.com.]
Illustrator Brushes on deviantART
deviantART's user-submitted Illustrator brushes. Incredibly wide range here. Organized by date or popularity. [Web site section part of deviantart.com.]
Illustrator Brushes
At least 51 free Illustrator brushes here. Categories: Illustrator Scatter Brushes, Illustrator Pattern Brushes, Illustrator Art Brushes, Illustrator Calligraphic Brushes. [Illustrator Brushes by Illustrator Brushes Web Site.]
Mujika Illustrator Brush Sets
Commercial and free Illustrator brushes and brush libraries for Illustrator CS2, Illustrator CS3. Detailed flower brushes, circular brushes, grunge and halftone brushes, abstract lines, abstract shapes, crazy dots, and much. Inexpensive brushes, free brushes, too. [Illustrator brushes by Mujika Vector and Illustration.]
VectorPortal: Illustrator Brushes
A growing number of free Illustrator brush libraries offered. Abstract lines and shapes, floral, leaves, swirls and curls, stars, and more. [Illustrator Brush Libraries by VectorPortal.com.]