Illustrator is the best way to quickly and efficiently compose vector based artwork for all kinds of projects, and here are 50 best Illustrator actions, brushes and styles that will help you create incredible illustrations, informative infographics and artful type.
You can do things such as add custom Brushes, edit the Swatches, change the Symbols or Graphic styles, etc. Simply edit, and Save As to your desktop, then use File Explorer or The Finder to replace the existing, original, file (AFTER you've backed up the original file). Then relaunch Illustrator. New documents should then reflect your changes. These 50 tutorials will help you to use Graphic Styles like a pro. Pro Illustrator Resources. The fastest and most effective way to use Adobe Illustrator styles is to use professional ones. It is much easier than creating a graphic style from scratch. Envato Elements is the perfect place to find winning Illustrator graphic styles. Easy to apply inside Illustrator, these graphic styles are perfect for cartoon logos and titles. If you like them you should check out more of Cicone’s premium files here. Format: Illustrator AI. Minimum Illustrator Version: CS4. Download (137,606) Chrome Text Effect. 3 Illustrator Vintage Text Effects. Stripes Shadow Text Effect.
Create beautiful designs with the help of these handy watercolor brushes! They are really easy to use, you can change the size and the color as you like!
- Download adobe illustrator graphic style libraries Free vector We have about (237,323 files) Free vector in ai, eps, cdr, svg vector illustration graphic art design format. Almost files can be used for commercial.
- Select Persistent from the menu of your graphic style the second way is to edit the graphic style of your default document, if you use mac go to the finder hold down the option key and go to the menu GO and select LIBRARY.
Each set uses three brushes, one for the main part of the zipper and two for the open sections. The brushes can be scaled to any size, re-posed and easily re-coloured.
Transform your text with my highly detailed Steam Punk Text Styles! Layer styles allow you to quickly change the look of text and objects with just one click!
Graphic styles allow you to quickly change the look of an object. All the changes are applied with just one click! To use, simply write a piece of text and select a style from the graphic styles tab. the styles work well with text and images (the rocket above was drawn using one of the ball pen styles).
With this Adobe Illustrator add-on, you can give watercolor effect to your design with just one click! And the effect can be applied to both text and shapes. Made from real watercolor texture, so you can give a realistic look to your design. And the output is fully vector! Ideal for logos, invitation, wedding card, banners, posters or any of your next project. You’ll also get 8 logo templates as an extra.
Quickly and easily create elegant gold stamping vector effects without the hassle of sourcing materials and becoming a Illustrator wizard!
Illustrator Artsy Graphic Styles is very easy to edit with bonus backgrounds and other all elements are included. These Styles are 100% vector and therefore 100% editable and scalable without losing detail. This could also be used for Text, objects and other shapes.
Perfect for your spooky projects, halloween, a zombie apocalypse, black Friday parties, these styles can be mixed and match to create your own unique and terrifying titles.
Get the naive charm of a doodled school exercise book into your designs and illustrations with these messy, sketchy brushes! Giving your art that loose, naive feel can be harder than it looks. My Doodle Brushes make this very easy as the line inconstancy and scribbled feel are built into each brush.
This is a pack of 10 different vintage and retro graphic styles for Adobe Illustrator. You can apply these styles to your text/artwork with just one click. So enhance your artwork with these styles and give it a vintage look. These styles are suitable for poster, typography, web, banner, illustration or your next project. Styles are fully vector so you can re-size them without losing quality.
This set contains twenty Freezing Graphic Styles in beautiful highly scalable vector detail vector. It’s A must have for Winter, Christmas, Snow Day, Ski, Snow Board, Hockey, Ice Skating and all other Chilled & Frozen themes. The Styles are set up for 72 pt text and all styles are easily modified from the appearance panel. Each element in the style can be adjusted, scaled, hidden or removed to make your own fun new creations. They are also great for logos, primitive shapes, borders, graphic elements and buttons.
The brushes are ideal for adding texture to more than just emulated print – try for yourself to see the superb texture depth that comes from layering these brushes! Even better, you don’t need to apply brushes in a complicated and time-consuming way to achieve the effects demonstrated in the preview. First, use the large, sparse print noise brushes to cover big areas easily and efficiently. Secondly, apply the light print noise brushes on areas where you want stronger texture. Finally, use the halftone, clustered print noise and random print texture brushes to finish your design with those all-important extra details. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3…
You’ll get a library of 172 pressure sensitive, pencil brushes for Adobe Illustrator CS6 or higher. They are based on actual graphite pencil strokes; as such they have varying degrees of texture (and also grunginess) and thickness. There are brushes to suit different path lengths.
Draw or distress your designs with my realistically textured sponge brushes! Using a mixture of natural and artificial sponges gives this pack has a wide range of textures and shapes so its ideal for almost any task. It is over 200 brush marks and picked only the best for this product. These were painstakingly refined to produce the 56 brushes that are included.
Most realistic add-ons to date: 67 Painted Canvas Brushes. They were sourced from real painted canvas strokes which gives them a look that’s so natural that it’s hard to believe you can’t feel the texture. Use it to create digital art or to give your designs an eye-catching edge.
Set of low polygonal abstract geometric vector seamless pattern brushes with corners. Used pattern brushes included in Brushes panel. Can be used on illustrations, cards etc.
Magic Monogram Light is a script for Illustrator which creates monograms, logos, frames and other decorations from your art elements. Select any object, run script and get monogram in one click. See this video to know how it works: Create monograms, frames and logos by script. You can set any number of sides for your monogram. Script has no limitation. It also has an option to add inner and outer frames. Batch processing is available. Select a lot of objects and create monograms with them in one click. Magic Monogram Light is much faster and easier than brushes.
This set now includes 32 updated hand drawn ink sketch lines created with various sized quill pens and brushes. These brushes are perfect for giving your vector lines an imperfect “inked by hand” look. The brushes are essential for cartoonist and comic artists working in Adobe Illustrator.
This is an Illustrator Diamonds & Gold Graphic Style with random sparkles with a gold outline border plus, a Diamond Pattern Swatch. The Diamond Pattern has a Transparent Background so you can add any color behind the diamonds. It is vector based so it can be sized as needed without losing any detail. This could also be used for objects/shapes. This Graphic Styles allow you to save a collection of effects as a Style so it can be used over and over again. It is vector based so it can be sized as needed without losing detail. Some are for text, some are for any kind of object.
16x vector actions pack for Adobe Illustrator CS4 and above wich allow turn your logo or any vector objects in cool and trashy vector stamps, vintage labels, retro effects etc. Finalizer action allow flatten your stamped logo after you edit trash pattern.
Sketch Your Logo is template and action for Adobe Illustrator. It will help you to present your work as hand drawing sketch.
It contains 64 hand drawn art brushes from longest to shortest and 40 scatter brushes for Adobe Illustrator including airbrushes, sponge brushes, chalks and other.
Illustrator Artsy Graphic Styles is very easy to edit with bonus backgrounds and other all elements are included. These Styles are 100% vector and therefore 100% editable and scalable without losing detail. This could also be used for Text, objects and other shapes.
Give text and vector shapes a knitted woolen finish with this set of graphic styles.
The Vegas Games Styles is the perfect styles collection for create logos, titles, illustrations or decoration about games of chance or about all themes that you can imagine.
These styles are perfect for use in retro designs and illustrations. Many of my customers use them for Tee-shirt designs where the design requires an authentic, retro look. Because they are vector effects, they can be scaled without loss of resolution. The seamless, repeat patterns that are used in the layer styles are also included and can be used independently. The styles come in eight different variations. Each variation comes in loads of different colors.
This is a pack of 45 different halftones graphic style for Adobe Illustrator. You can use it for texture your font, background, print designs, web or artwork. All patterns are 100% vector you can edit, recolor, resize or combine several styles.
Use the brushes to illuminate your designs and illustrations. They’re ideal for headlines, drawings and much more. To use the brushes, select one of the brush icons from the brushes tab then draw a line using the brush tool. The width, length and color can be easily adjusted.
This set of Highly detailed Barbed Wire pattern brushes (silver and rusted) is complete with ends and two styles of inside/outside corners.
105 Patterns made with 100% Patterns Brushes for Illustrator that the elements are great for cycle, rounded, badge, ellipses, label, frames, borders, underline deco , separators elements and any design project, on the wab also in print etc.
This set includes 50 hand drawn pencil sketch lines created using various pencil techniques. These brushes are perfect for giving your vector lines an imperfect hand drawn look. The brushes are essential for cartoonist and comic artists working in Adobe Illustrator.
Two unique Illustrator styles. Both are 100% vector so they can be scaled to any size without loss of quality. Graphic styles are extremely easy to implement. Just select an object and click on a swatch! Each of the styles contains 5 different color variations for a total of 10 styles. These styles are extremely easy to customize in Illustrator’s Appearance Palette! A short tutorial is included in the help file.
20x vector actions pack for Adobe Illustrator CS3 and above wich allow to detonate your logo, text or any vectors in cool destructed objects.
Give headlines an old-fashioned, classic look with these retro styles! Graphic styles allow you to quickly change the look of an object. All the changes are applied with just one click! They save time and work with both text and vector images. No fonts are included but you will find information on where to download the fonts that were used in the preview in the download pack.
Chalk Illustrator Graphic Style with 6 different filled chalk styles each on 21 different colors. This is a vector based file so it can be sized as needed without losing detail and can be used also for objects/shapes.
Everything you see in the preview including examples of the styles in action.
Do you want to get instant retro effect with just one click? Then this pack is here to help you! This pack contains total 40 Adobe Illustrator graphic styles. 20 high quality text style and 20 background generator style. Just type your text, click on the style, and you’ll get the effect! Also you can generate amazing retro background with just one click using background styles. Styles are fully vector, once applied, you can re-size your artwork according to your needs without losing quality. Furthermore, you can apply effect to any shape/object.
Draw like a Victorian illustrator with this set of 50 art brushes! To use the brushes simply select a brush and draw with the brush tool. The color and stroke width can be changed as required. The majority of what you see in the preview was created using the brushes and I’ve included the map image in the download so you can see exactly how to use them.
The pack contains 19 brushes. These include bonus Christmas and Valentine themed stitches along with loads of traditional stitching brushes.
This five brush set is perfect for adding a torn paper edge effect to vector objects. Also included is a bonus set of 12 recycled paper graphic styles which have been designed to work with the brushes. To use the brushes simply draw a line with any of Illustrator’s drawing tools then apply the brush by clicking on an icon from the brushes tab. The color can also be changed to suit your needs.
A special collection of 75 drawing and sketching brushes to give your art a unique retro cartoon style. The preview image here was made in a short time using just a small selection of the whole range, which you can see in the Screenshot. It included a Beginner’s Help file (together with the AI and EPS10 files) in this item to encourage people who feel less experienced with Illustrator.
A set of Graphic Styles for Adobe Illustrator. Also included is a swatch with all the Patterns used. Graphic Styles are a great way to add a set of attributes to text or objects in one click. So draw any shape you wish wether it be cute elephants or pretty birds or just text, then click on the style of your choice and instantly turn your shape into a gorgeous handstitched item. I have premade many styles as you can see in the preview but you also have the option of loading the pattern swatches and seeing what variations you can come up with via the fills in the appearance panel. The colors of the stitching is also easily changed via the stroke color in the appearance panel.
These time-saving styles work well with both text and vector images. The styles are easy to customize – over 40 patterns included and instructions on how to use them with the styles.
Use this set of brushes to quickly add Magic sparkle effects to your design or illustration. Included in the set are three styles: dense, medium and thin (shown in the preview). These are supplied in large magic and small magic pre-sets. ‘Layered brushes’ use the power of the appearance panel to package multiple layers of brushes into a graphic style (to install them you do need to place the file designated ‘graphic style’ into Illustrator’s graphic style folder). All settings such as size, spacing, rotation and scatter are further customizable through the appearance window So go hokus-pokus it up!
Adobe Illustrator “Shape Mesh” to distort your vectorial text, logo or anything else to look like a photocopy or similar.
9 Templates For Round Ornament Creation Each template is named due to angle of segment and number of segments that form round ornament.
Ideal for web designers for graphic designers to quickly create ribbons layouts style flat. You only need to draw a curve to choose the color and style. The rest of the shades ribbons appear themselves.
Sketch like and artist and add a hand-drawn look to your designs and illustrations with this set of 18 art brushes! Each brush was made by scanning a real pencil stoke then carefully converting it into an Illustrator art brush.
As you can see from the preview, these styles look authentic despite being vectors. Here are 10 different varieties with varying levels of ink density. You can adjust the colors and customize the effects to suit your needs after application.
You will get 3 files with the brushes (each brush type in different file) inside the brush panel – just choose the desired brush and start designing. Also there is a Main file where you will find all the brushes together in one file with example strokes on the artboard.
There are two very different sets of brushes that are included in this pack to work together harmoniously to make stunning inked art. The outline brushes undulate with the inconsistency of real ink while the scatter brushes build up interesting stippled texture and shading. Use them to create stunning digital art or to give your designs an eye-catching edge. All brushes were made from real hand-drawn source material.
In our webinar on 22 April 2020 we covered how to make and use graphic styles. And we aren't talking about the styles that come built into Illustrator, we are talking about your own effects, created and saved as a graphic style.
So for those of you that don't really know what they are, we'll cover that quickly. A graphic style is a set of reusable appearance attributes. They enable you to quickly change the look of an object. Let's say you add a fill and stroke color, change transparency and apply an effect such as a Drop Shadow or even an Astute Graphics live effect such as Phantasm halftone to a shape or some text. By selecting the whole shape or text and simply dragging it into the Graphic Styles panelyou can save these effects. You will see a thumbnail of your style in the Graphic Styles panel. You can delete any of these from the panel. Plus, all the changes you apply with graphic styles are completely reversible.
You can then apply your new graphic styles to any objects, groups or layers. Just remember, when you apply a graphic style to a group or layer, every object in the group or layer will take on the attributes of that graphic style.
To give an example, let's say you have created a graphic style that has a 50% opacity applied. If you apply the graphic style to a layer, all objects in or added to that layer will also have 50% opacity. However, if you move any object out of the layer, that object’s appearance reverts to its previous opacity.
Download your free Astute Graphics graphic styles for Illustrator
Simply log into your Astute Graphics account (it's free to create one today and start your 7 day trial) and look for the Downloads page.
How to use the graphic styles
Think of these as quickly applied recipes. Let's take a quick look at this example of one of the FREE graphic styles you can download today.
We created a simple rectangle with a single fill color. We want it to take on the appearance of one of our giveaway styles. Let's look at the Graphic Styles panel first where we've added them.
If you haven't already got this panel open, follow Window > Graphics Styles.
To apply the style we simply click on our shape, then click on our chosen graphic style.
Illustrator will take a moment and then replicate the style onto theobject, maintaining all the effects live in the Appearance panel as showbelow.
We can then go into the Appearance panel, tweak some effects and drag that back into the Graphic Styles panel to create a new 'recipe'.
Graphic Styles YouTube playist
We have made a 10 video series to help you use graphic styles in your work.
Check out the playlist HERE.
What happens when the Astute Graphics plugins are not present?
When using Astute Graphics plugins within your graphic styles, such as Phantasm, Stylism, etc, these will only work if you have the plugins installed. Otherwise, you will get warning messages upon loading the artwork with the plugin effects present.
To learn more, including how to best handle this when working with third parties, check out this blog article explaining what to do: What happens if the Phantasm, Texturino, Stylism, Stipplism or InkQuest plugins are not present?