64 Free Marker Pen Strokes Illustrator Brushes

It’s with great pleasure that I release this freebies set containing 64 free Illustrator Brushes of pen marker strokes and scribbles. They’re great to give any design a more natural, hand-drawn look. All brushes are of the highest quality and you’re free to use them in both personal and commercial works. They are compatible with Illustrator versions from CS upwards. It’s worth mentioning that with brushes like these the best results can sometimes be attained by setting the stroke to 0.25px or less.

And here’s how you install them: Download and extract the .ai file from the archive. Move it to a folder of your choice (Illustrator stores all its default brushes in the directory Illustrator > Presets > Brushes). Open any illustrator document and go to the brushes palette. From the dropdown menu select: Open Brush Library > Other Library and choose the .ai file you just downloaded. That’s it. Enjoy!

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contains 1 zip archive – 64 AI Brushes, 4.4 Mb

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28 Awesome Responses so far

shevaa September 15th, 2010

thx man
Matt September 15th, 2010

Am I wrong or is it an empty file?
Brian September 15th, 2010

No Matt, methinks you might be correct! Don’t know what Sheeva’s looking at, but I’m looking at an empty artboard! Maybe he should take his shades off. ; )
Franz Jeitz September 15th, 2010

@Matt & @Brian: You are correct when you say it is an empty artboard. This is no ordinary AI file, but a AI Brush file. If you load it, as explained in the article, you will see that the brushes are loaded in your brushes palette. Also, if you open the file in Illustrator as you would do with another file, you get an empty artboard, but check your brushes palette, you’ll see that the brushes are there.
Brian September 15th, 2010

Thanks Franz. That just shows how smarty pants we were trying to be…lesson learnt…always read the attached instructions! And apologies to Sheeva…and his cool shades!
Childmonster September 15th, 2010

So good ! I download it ! thanks
Ben September 16th, 2010

Fantastic! thanks!
Carlos October 27th, 2010

Matt you must import the file eps into your brushes library. Add a brushes library option.
cory November 7th, 2010

Is this only for Illustrator, or do you have brushes for photoshop too? Btw, I love all of your brushes and textures! Keep it up~
Geoff McMahen January 3rd, 2011

Nice brushes!

Thanks for sharing!

Geoff
Vikash Kumar April 11th, 2011

Hey Franz,
Nice brushes really helpful for my next project.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Daniel April 14th, 2011

thanks for the brushes, my library is expanding very fast.
harvz July 31st, 2011

thank you for sharing.. im gonna use this one of my projects. keep it up!
zoltan September 29th, 2011

thanks for all the amazing artwork you share. this one is brill
Naomi October 10th, 2011

Thanks so much, i have been looking for these exact brushes for a while now!
john December 11th, 2011

thanks for sharing these great brushes
naresh kumar January 18th, 2012

awesome.
Sana January 25th, 2012

thanks for sharing these brushes.
KPK June 3rd, 2012

thanks
Bonnie July 6th, 2012

Love these, too bad they’re for ai only… ink won’t open because it says it doesn’t have pdf content? love all your stuff, you are so generous!
Bojan Živkovi? July 7th, 2012

Just thank you, what else to say?
nilesh kumar August 16th, 2012

it very nice thanks yaar