15 Free Grunge Brush Sets for Photoshop & Illustrator

Get ready for our biggest collection of grunge Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop brush sets. Using grunge brushes in your design can add texture making them useful and valuable tool for Photoshop users. While it’s true that there are hundreds if not thousands of brush sets available online created by designers around the world. Only a few of them are with high quality, unique and has great value. That is why we came up with this post with 15 sets of adobe illustrator brushes. Putting them all in one place making it easy for everyone to find.

We have divided the list into two parts. The first 8 brush sets are free to download while the rest are paid or premium. If you have some budget to spare then we recommend that you invest on some of these paid high quality grunge brush sets. The list has no particular order, enjoy. :)

 

Free Grunge Illustrator & Photoshop Brush Sets

 

1. Abstract Grunge

AbstractGrungeBrusches

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No. of Sets: 15

Designed by: Env1ro from deviantART

The first of our free Photoshop brush sets is inspired by abstract art. Brush size ranges from 300 to 500 pixels.  It’s a very creative design to use perfect for adding fierce and hard texture to your design.

 

2. Demolished Cracks

Demolished_Cracks

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No. of Sets: 12

Designed by: Env1ro from deviantART

Another good set of grunge brushes from the same designer we have above. This is called “demolished Cracks” you have 12 sets of brushes to achieve this effect. Brush size is 400 by 650 pixels. This is perfect to achieve dry, arid, dusty even patched effect.

 

3. Quad Grunge

QuadGrunged

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No. of Sets: 10

Designed by: Env1ro from deviantART

Quad Grunge offers 10 available brush sets for available for use. Brush size is 600 by 450 pixels. This is best for dark, heavy, hard, burnt, and metal effects on your design. This is compatible on PS7 and up versions.

 

4. Splatter Brushes Set

splatter-brushes-set

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No. of Sets: 16

Designed by: Thomas Beal from BrushKing.eu

I give you 16 high-resolution brush sets, with splatter paint effect. Please note that this brush sets are free and licensed under creative commons agreement. This is created for Photoshop CS4 versions.

 

5. Grunge Textures

grunge_brush_portfolio

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No. of Sets: 10

Designed by: Susan Libertiny from libertiny.com

Now we give you 10 grunge texture brushes for Photoshop CS3. This is an awesome set with lots of great effects from light to dark cracks, sparse, and rough textures. It’s free to use and brush size is 2100 to 2500 pixels.

 

6. Urban Scrawl Brushes

urban-scrawl

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No. of Sets: 27

Designed by: Tamsin Baker from tamsinbaker.com

If you like urban art and design the you might want to consider this urban inspired grunge brush sets. All 27 of them for you to choose from created by Tamsin Baker for Photoshop. This is perfect for achieving comic like or even simple graffiti like effects.

 

7. Border-Corner-Frame

border-corner-frame-pack

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No. of Sets: 31

Designed by: psydoxart from deviantART

The initial result from all the hard work of “psydoxart” resulted in 31 amazing brush sets for Photoshop. This is specifically intended for framing and border use so the vectors would include 14 corner designs, 10 borders, 5 frames, and 2 grids. Brush width is 1000 pixels.

8. VZR Grunge Brush Set

vzr-grunge-brush-set

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No. of Sets: 5

Designed by: Neoriek from deviantART

We may only have 5 brush sets here but they are all awesome so I say this is all worth it. The designer did some great things on this set after the second release. he added some clear grunge brushes and other tech inspired ones too. It’s free for personal use and you have to get in touch with the owner for commercial use.

 

Premium Grunge Brush Sets

 

9. Massive Grunge Brushes

massive-grunge

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No. of Sets: 9

Designed by: scarab13 from graphicriver.net

We start our premium adobe illustrator brush set with this highly rated creation from graphicriver. This is a very cool way to achieve splashy watercolor effects. A lot of nice experimenting could be done here. So enjoy the set. Get the full license for only $5 it already has 37 purchases with perfect 5 rating and great feedback on comments

10.  High Res Grunge Brushes

high res grunge brushes

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No. of Sets: 5

Designed by: RobMacKay from graphicriver.net

Here are 5 high-resolution Adobe Photoshop SC2 brush sets to achieve amazing grunge effects. The design is created from images of dried plaster paint. This is a cool effect you can add to your designs. Get the full license for only $4 also received perfect rating from previous buyers.

 

11. Watercolor & Paint Photoshop Brushes

water-color

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No. of Sets: 56

Designed by: env1ro from graphicriver.net

This is an awesome collection of 56 brush sets. Call that a mega pack brush sets including watercolor splashes, smudges, and splatter. All of these are on high resolution images with up to 2500 pixels. Get all of these for just $5. This will work on Photoshop  7 and later versions.

 

12. Coffee Stain Brushes

coffee-stains

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No. of Sets: 90

Designed by: GertDD from graphicriver.net

An elite designer wants to share some Photoshop brushes. There are 90 sets here inspired by coffee stain. The designs are categorized into rings, double rings and splatter. This is very nice effect to achieve some classic, vintage, nostalgic and even relaxing grunge effects. This includes 8 high-resolution scans at 5100 by 7014 pixels in .jpg format. get full license for this awesome tools for only$6. As of time of this writing it already sold 90 licenses with perfect rating too.

 

13. Bloody Massacre Photoshop Brushes

loody massacre

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No. of Sets: 40

Designed by: from graphicriver.net

Here is another modern grunge designs inspired by red blood splatter, stains, and trails. This is perfect grunge texture for bloody effect on your design. For just $5 on tools license you will be able to freely use this 40 high-resolution brush sets.

 

14. Drops Brushes

drops brushes

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No. of Sets: 21

Designed by: Ramoo from graphicriver.net

This design is created for achieving “bloody” effects on any design. But that is not the only thing you can achieve from this very useful tools. Playing with the colors can also create some spooky effects. Enjoy these high-resolution brush sets, most of them with up to 2000 pixels which is perfect for large print formats.

 

15. Smeared Hand & Foot PS Brushes

smeared hand

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No. of Sets: 43

Designed by: niteFALL from graphicriver.net

Our last entry will let you play with smeared hand and foot effects. If you like playing with gory effects then this will be perfect for you. best to create blood stains from hands or foot steep trails. But blood is not only your option here you can also create some muddy or dirt trails depending on your designs. Enjoy all 43 high-resolution and high quality Photoshop brushes with up to 2500 pixels.

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