30 Photoshop Pencil Brush Sets For Hand-Drawn Effects
Photoshop pencil brush sets are functional when adding some sketched or hand-drawn effects to your designs. For example, you can use a Photoshop pencil brush to create new drawings and doodles or shade cartoon characters. In addition, you can also make digital drawings and paintings using this Adobe program to look like they were hand-drawn using these kinds of brushes. For instance, you can use these Photoshop pencil brush sets to create a sketch portrait of a friend or relative and send the drawing to him or her as a gift. I am sure there are hundreds of ways you can use these Photoshop brushes in your projects.
Below, we rounded up a total of 15 Photoshop pencil brush sets that you may download for free. Use them to create more personalized artwork like postcards, greeting cards, thank you cards, among other things. Furthermore, most of these brushes are free for personal and non-commercial uses. However, if you plan to use it for purposes other than what has been mentioned, it is best to check with the authors first, as the terms of use may change from time to time. Enjoy!
If you like these free resources, check out our collection of free chalkboard brushes for Photoshop.
PHOTOSHOP PENCIL BRUSH SETS FOR FREE DOWNLOAD
Please note that these Photoshop pencil brush sets can only be downloaded from the Deviantart page, where they are initially posted. Just click on the download link below the preview image of the brush set you wish to download, and it will take you to a new page where you can get the brush file.
01: PENCIL SKETCHES: 20 PS BRUSHES
This new set of free Photoshop brushes includes images of hand-drawn images, Thus, use them to create more fun and easy yet very intimate and personal look in your designs.
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02: Pencil-Sketched School Brushes for Playful Designs (Part 1)
For your back-to-school design projects, here is our first set of Photoshop brushes featuring hand-drawn school brushes. This set, therefore, includes school graphics such as notebooks, books, pens, crayons, graduation caps, arrows, mathematical signs and equations, and many more!
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03: Back to School Doodle Brushes for Kiddie Designs (Part 2)
This pack also features education and learning-related images sporting pencil-sketched hand-drawn style. However, these are free to use for your designs and projects only.
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04: Beach Travel Brushes: 40 Free Tropical Summer Symbols
Summer will never be complete without travel, especially to the beach as a destination. So in this set of beach travel brushes, you will find various images related to Summer beach vacations.
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05: 24 High-Resolution Sketched Winter Element Brushes
There are 24 high-resolution sketches of winter element brushes in this set. For instance, you can find images of reindeer, sled, snow globe, mittens, snowflakes, and many more. Likewise, there are socks, igloo, scarves, and bonnets. You may thus use these sketched winter element brushes to make postcards, greeting cards, gift cards, and other designs for the holidays and winter events.
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06: REALISTIC PENCIL BRUSH FOR PHOTOSHOP
This free Photoshop brush set consists of 11 realistic pencil strokes (6 original brushes plus five new ones). Thus, these are useful for creating artworks.
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07: REAL PENCIL BRUSHES FOR PHOTOSHOP
This set contains six custom pencil stroke brushes such as mechanical pencil (HB), HB pencil, B pencil, 2B pencil, etc.
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08: PENCIL BRUSHES TOOL PRESETS
Here is a set of many brushes for Adobe Photoshop. The preview shows what they look like, although the sketch mainly used the 2b pencil. Feel free to adjust spacing and play with the settings to make “your” favorite pencil brush.
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09: PENCIL BRUSH AND TOOL
The download pack contains a tool [.tpl] and a brush [.abr]. The file isalso compatible with all CS versions of the program.
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10: DIGITAL PENCIL BRUSH SET
This pencil brush set for digital pencils was created in Photoshop CS5. Although not guaranteed, it might work with PS CS6.
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11: PHOTOSHOP PENCIL BRUSH
The drawings in the preview image below were drawn using this pencil brush. While most brushes tend to go too black too fast, this one stands through multiple traces, still feeling like a pencil. Another good thing it has is that it handles brush sizes very well. For best results, you can use it thinly and thickly as a filler. Likewise, it is also a low resources brush–no double pen tip, just simple tip + texture. Finally, it’s fast on low-end machines.
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12: PHOTOSHOP SKETCHING SET
Here is another sketching brush set for Photoshop. Some brushes have more graininess to them than others. The file is compatible with all versions up to CS5. However, feel free to adjust settings to suit your needs.
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13: PENCIL BRUSH SET
Set of 7 sketching pencil-type brushes for you to try.
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14: SKETCHY PENCIL BRUSHES
This set contains two brushes: a standard rough pencil brush and a more minor detail pencil-type brush. Both run fast in cs6 and give an excellent sketching feeling.
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15: REALISTIC PENCIL BRUSHES
This set contains some realistic pencil brushes for Photoshop use. Furthermore, these are compatible with Photoshop CS6.
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16: PENCIL SKETCH PACK
Here is another pack of essential brushes that emulate the look of a graphite pencil. In addition, it contains a small collection of sketching brushes and two eraser brushes.
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17: SKETCH AND INK PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
The pack that you may download from the link below contains simple brushes for sketching in Photoshop. These brushes imitate pencils and ink pens.
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18: PS BRUSHES: SKETCHY PENCIL ALPHA
Meanwhile, here is a set of Photoshop brushes with a JPEG image sheet for ease of sketching in Photoshop.
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19: CARBON PENCIL BRUSHES 2013
Here is a set of drawing brushes featuring actual carbon pencil shapes and textures on paper.
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20: 3 PENCIL BRUSHES FOR PHOTOSHOP
The set contains three different brushes: Firstly, it comes with a 2B pencil, the Goldilocks pencil for traditional sketching as it is neither too hard nor too soft. You can achieve an extensive range of values with it depending on how hard you push against the surface. Secondly, there is a 4B pencil, but this should be for a light touch. Thus, the only downside in the traditional medium is that you have to sharpen it every 3 minutes. However, in Photoshop, you won’t have to worry about that. Finally, the third one is a mechanical pencil.
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21: PENCIL SHAPES BRUSH SET
There are nine brushes from sketches using colored pencils.
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22: SKETCHTASTIC BRUSH PACK
This pack of free brushes includes a crosshatch pencil, stipple brush, among other things. For best results, use these brushes with a tablet. Please note these are actual brush presets you’ll need to draw stuff with, and not gigantic 1000px stamp things.
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23: COLORED PENCIL BRUSH SET
Several Colored Pencil brushes give your designs an organic textured feel.
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24: COLORED PENCILS PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
A limited demo brush set composed of 5 brushes. They are high-resolution, as indicated in the preview below.
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25: CROSSHATCH BRUSHES
Here is a set of crosshatch brushes. These are great for adding a natural look to paintings.
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26: PENCIL BRUSHES FOR PHOTOSHOP
Furthermore, here is a set of 15 pencil brushes for making sketches in Photoshop. Each image has a size of between 1665 and 2408 pixels. At the same time, it includes the image pack in case you are using a different program or version of Photoshop.
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27: 15+ PENCIL BRUSHES
These brushes have real-looking pencil stroke effects. Thus, you can use these pencil brushes for adding hand-drawn effects in your drawings and images in Photoshop.
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28: PENCIL FRAMES BRUSHES
This set contains 12 pencil brushes featuring frames and borders. These brushes are compatible with Photoshop CS3. Moreover, it includes a PSD file for those with other versions/apps.
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29: PHOTOSHOP PENCIL BRUSH
In addition, here is a tasty and stylish pencil brush for all your Photoshop sketching needs! This brush for PS is handy for visually interesting sketches that can add a nice layer of texture for you to paint on top of and make nicer-looking digital drawings.
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30: THE SKETCH ARSENAL
Here is a set of tool presets consisting of 2 types of color brushes and two kinds of color pencils. In addition, the set contains three drawing pencils with different lead types, a fine-line work pen, and a dry marker.
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