Free pen brushes for Affinity Designer

Create pen art on a digital canvas with these pen brushes

Spicy Yoghurt released a new brush pack for Affinity Designer! It contains all the brushes you need to get the look of a real pen in your digital drawings. Even the little mistakes you make while drawing on paper are included.

Drawing with a real pen has its own charm. Lines are never perfectly straight and no two dots are the same, and that's exactly what makes a drawing look handmade. In a vector program every line is clean and sharp, so a lot of that charm gets lost. These brushes bring that charm back to your digital drawings.

And the good news is, it's completely free for you to download! Continue scrolling to get to the download section.

What can you use these brushes for?

This pack is great for creating single-color illustrations in Affinity Designer, but can also be used to spice up your colored vector art as in the next example.

What's in the free brush pack?

The pen brush pack contains 29 high-resolution brushes to make your illustrations come to life. Here's a quick overview of all the contents:

Some brushes draw a line with a rough, hand-drawn edge. Others repeat a small pattern along the line, like the crosses, waves and loops in the image above. Combine a few, and your illustration will look like you drew it with a real pen.

How to install the brushes

The download is a zip file with one .afbrushes file inside. Unzip it first, then add the brushes to Affinity Designer like this:

• Step 1 - Open the Brushes panel (Window > General > Brushes).
• Step 2 - Click the menu icon in the top-right corner of the panel and choose Import Brushes.
• Step 3 - Select the .afbrushes file and click Open.

The pen brushes now appear as a new category in the panel. Select the Pen Tool, pick a brush and start drawing!

Tips for drawing with the brushes

The brushes follow the shape of your line, so they also work on curves made with the Pen Tool. Want to try another brush? Select the line and click a different brush. There's no need to draw it again. The Stroke panel sets the width. And if you have a drawing tablet, use it. Your lines will look even more like real pen work.

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Click the download button below to get the free brush pack and start creating your own pen brush art.

Copyright

You can use the brushes for personal and commercial work. You're welcome to share a link to this page, but you're not allowed to share, distribute or sell the brush files themselves, in their original or modified form.