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sweet stuff!

All these brushes are certainly useful and convenient, but I’m a bit skeptical about the doodle brushes. They’re nice for sure, but isn’t it far better to draw and scan your own? It doesn’t take that long.

I was waiting patiently for a post like this on Smashing Mag. Great!

wow this is a great list. some are new to me. thanks for including 3 my brush sets! you’re smashing!

Awesome post! Some really, really cool brushes here. I like how yall broke it down into categories for easy browsin. Congrats to all featured! Great post!

@Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
You’re far from wrong. I just started new study, Digital communication. And things like this always help me out big time.
Just stepped into the whole internet thing, but already hooked to Smashing Magazine!

@ leszek – it amuses me when I see comments from people like you. You obviously see yourself as so far above everyone else in terms of your creativity. As my mum used to say, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

If it’s so sad for you, then why don’t you leave this site, and go somewhere you are amongst other people with such high opinions of themselves.

I’ve been running my own successful design agency for the last 7 years, and this site continues to be a fantastic resource for beginners and professionals alike.

Vitaly and Sven, keep up the good work!

hi
im also beginner here. for leszek “get out of here” I’d says. if u so creative why dont u make for ur own..huh

ps: nice collection.

@ Vitaly and Sven,
What makes Smashing Magazine unique is the depth and usefulness of lists. Tons of blogs post lists, but very few put as much practicality and usefulness into the lists. Smashing’s list posts certainly stand out to me as they always go way beyond everyone else. As someone who’s written a few similar posts for Smashing I know that I always feel I have a lot to live up to with these posts because of the standard that has been set.

LOVE this! Thanks!

AWESOME! i spent most of the day making grunge borders for a site im workin on and here you guys go making life easier once more.. many many thanks!

Perfect collection. Great post! Thank you SM

Nice collection as always but are those brushes free for commercial projects???

down with the haters. just go somewhere else!

I love the handdrawn examples!
The rest I feel like I’ve seen too many times allready. :)

for me, one of the best brushes resource:
link

keep up the good work SM!

Hugo

YELEEEEE:D

old … and not so “must have” material ….

Fan-bloody-tastic!

more grunge? no thanks.

@ Vitaly and Sven,

Making these lists of brushes is great way to look at the past post without constantly searching or digging up posts in the past. The lists are great!

Another stunning – and helpful! – compilation. Thanks so much!

It would be great to see info, which/if presented stuff is compatible e.g. with Paint Shop Pro, or other painters. Not everyone is using PS. ;)

Great list. I’m just getting into using brushes more and some of these will definitely come in useful.

Thanks

Awesome. I love these. Thank you! :)

gracias desde España

Awesome list! Delicioused

@ leszek – I’ve been a reader of SM since the beginning. And, like you, not all of the articles are of direct use or interest to me personally, but a large enough selection of them ARE. If something doesn’t tickle my fancy, I just don’t give it a second look. There’s no need to whinge about it. All I was saying was that your comment came across like you were some uber-designer worthy of far superior content than that which most of the other readers here get great inspiration, ideas and learning from.

I just downloaded almost all of them. Forget the guy who thinks all “top whatever” lists are the same and easy to crank out. He’s obviously never made one before. When the web is filled with massive amounts of junk(brushes included) its simply amazing that people like you are generous enough to sift through it all for us. I for one appreciate that. Keep it up.

Cool… Thx so much for all ur post, they r all very useful to me… Keep up the good work :) Smashing mag Go Go Go!

E’ proprio quello che stavo cercando questa mattina…. IWD è sempre un mito!

Nice collection.

Gah! So awesome! I’m going to be sorting and organizing these forever, haha.

Thanks you, for being you ;)

Why are these comments showing up in my RSS feed? (Google Reader).

I’ve never seen it before. It it Smashing or is it Google?

ooops…!!! feed problem!
smashing article feed accidentally has been replaced by your comment feed

so nice !

Nice And awesome collection…..help me in my thinkings..

i really appreciate the work,,, thnx to the team

omg ¡¡¡¡¡!!!

Pretty much you are saying, “hey, if you don’t know how to be a real designer, here’s how you can fake it.” How about encouraging people to create their own design tools? Instead you just help everyone become lazy followers who mimic popular trends.

very good !thank you

Thx for resources..

Cool stuff, we have most of them already

omg it’s amazing!

Thank you very much!

Really i like it..will use it

Excuse me…Can I download the brushes…?