On this page of our ultimate free Photoshop brushes collection, you’ll find a wide range of natural and nature-inspired resources to add realism and depth to your artwork.
From brushes to help you draw people (think: hair, skin and eyelashes) to brushes for drawing weather (cloud Photoshop brushes, snow, rain and lightening), landscapes (trees, grass, flowers) and water, you’ll find nearly every nature-inspired brush you can imagine. And the best part? These Photoshop brushes are all free,, in many cases for both personal and commercial use.
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Photoshop brushes for fur
26. Fur brushes
Create fur with these brushes
(Image credit: Nathie)
- Designer: Nathie
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Fur Brushes from MyPhotoshopBrushes
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These brushes will help you to create realistic fur for your projects, whether for animals or clothing. The designer asks that you do not redistribute them, though you’re free to use them in your commercial and personal projects.
Skin Photoshop brushes
27. Skin Photoshop brushes
This set of brushes was created by an artist who specialises in portraits
- Designer: Marta Dahlig
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Customise your brushes with this tutorial from Creative Bloq
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Freelance Polish artist and illustrator Marta Dahlig has been creating digital brushes for years. She specialises in portraits, and her set of skin Photoshop brushes offers a fantastic boost to any digital artist’s arsenal.
28. Eyelash Photoshop brushes
Eyelashes at different stages of open and closed
- Designer: eriikaa
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use with a credit
- Download Eyelash Brushes from DeviantArt
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DeviantArt user eriikaa has shared 22 free Photoshop brushes for drawing eyelashes at different stages of the eyes being open or closed. She asks for a credit if you use them, and to let her know if – and how – you use them.
Weather and cloud Photoshop brushes
29. Cloud Photoshop brushes
If you need help creating clouds, these brushes are for you
(Image credit: Brusheezy)
- Designer: Helenartathome
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Cloud Brushes from Brusheezy
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This collection of crisp clean cloud brushes should fulfil all your cloud brush needs. The set comes with 14 high-res cloud brushes, plus two rays and sunbursts. They’re ideal for adding more detail to a scene.
30. High-res sunshine Photoshop brushes
These high-res brushes are ideal for web projects
(Image credit: Brusheezy)
- Designer: Artistmef
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Sunshine 2 from Brusheezy
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This set of 15 high-quality photorealistic sunshine effect brushes will add natural and realistic light to help brighten up a scene. These hi-res brushes have a resolution of 2500px, making them ideal for both print and web projects.
31. Snow Photoshop brushes
- Designer: Brusheezy
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use, with a credit
- Download Snow from Brusheezy
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Add a chill to your designs with a flurry of snow from this pack of free Photoshop brushes. This pack contains 15 snow effects, which you can mix up to create realistic variations in your scene. Again, make sure you follow the attribution instructions on the download page if you use them commercially.
32. Rain Photoshop brushes
There are four brushes in this set
- Designer: amorphisss
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Rain from DeviantArt
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Rain is notoriously tricky to draw and paint, so these brilliant free rain Photoshop brushes from Deviant Art user amorphisss could save a lot of work. There are four brushes in this set. For each one, you can decide which way you want the rain to fall and use the Motion Blur filter to emphasise the motion effect.
33. Lightning strikes Photoshop brushes
Electrify the viewer with these lightening strikes
- Designer: SparkleStock
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Electrifying Lightening brushes from PhotoshopTutorials
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Electrify your work with this collection of stunning lightning strikes. They’re tileable and available as patterns and JPEG images as well as Photoshop brushes. There are 18 to choose from in this set – all free.
Landscape Photoshop brushes
34. PS Brush pack
These flora and fauna brushes offer intricate details
(Image credit: Lynn Chen)
- Designer: Lynn Chen
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Lynn Chen Brush Set from Gumroad
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This PS Brush pack went down a storm when it was released on Behance by designer Lynn Chen. Offering a huge range of flora and fauna-themed brushes, the pack is split into categories including animals, foliage and nature. These brushes are intricate, pretty and super-arty – and they’re totally free to use.
35. Plant Photoshop brushes
Remember to credit the owner if you use this set of brushes
- Designer: B Silvia
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use, with credit
- Download Plant Photoshop brushes from Brusheezy
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Want to create beautiful plants with ease? This set of 23 high resolution plant Photoshop brushes from graphic designer and illustrator B Silvia will help you do just that. These are free for both personal and commercial use, but please remember to credit the owner.
36. Leaf Brushes
This set features seven isolated leaf images
- Designer: jschill
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Leaf Brushes from Brusheezy
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When it comes to creating organic textured backgrounds, this set of high-resolution leaf Photoshop brushes is great for drawing leaves. It features seven isolated leaf images with intricate details and textures. They’re free for personal and commercial use, but make sure you attribute them according to the Creative Commons guidelines – you’ll find full details on the Brusheezy site.
37. Grass or fur brushes
Changing the colours transforms the grass into fur
- Designer: s1088
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Grass or fur brushes from DeviantArt
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This set of 10 brushes is ideal for adding grassy details to your Photoshop paintings. There’s a variety of styles to choose from, so you can create everything from scrubby dry patches of grass to lush meadows. A bonus tip from the creator is that if you switch up the colours, they can also make great fur.
38. Nature silhouettes Photoshop brushes
There are 19 free nature Photoshop brushes in this pack
- Designer: pinkonhead
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Nature silhouettes Photoshop brushes from Pepsized
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This is a really useful set of 19 different nature silhouettes, each featuring a different plant. The options range from trees to grasses. These brushes are free for personal and commercial use, but the designer says that any references back to her website would be highly appreciated.
39. Environment brushes
Deck out your environment
- Designer: Syntetyc
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Environment brushes from Deviant Art
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This massive set of free environment Photoshop brushes should have you covered for all your environment painting needs. The brushes are high-res and specifically suited for creating realistic natural environments in Photoshop.
Water Photoshop brushes
40. Water brushes vol. 4
The creator of these brushes has three other sets to check out as well
- Designer: Webdesigner Lab
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Water brushes vol. 4 from Webdesigner Lab
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Water can be tricky, but there are 20 high-resolution water Photoshop brushes in this pack, including splashes, spills, ripples and water drops. Webdesigner Lab also has three other popular sets of water effect brushes, so if you can’t find what you want in this pack, check out the others using the link above.
Assorted effects
41. Smoke brushes
The creator has added some fabulous examples of what these brushes can do
- Designer: Niño Batitis
- Usage: Free for personal use
- Download Smoke brushes from UCreative
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Designer Niño Batitis is the man behind this set of smoking hot free Photoshop brushes. Including 13 high-quality smoke brushes, these will make a great addition to any designer’s toolkit to create smoky, misty or hazy effects.
42. Feathers
Create detailed feather effects with this set of brushes
(Image credit: redheadstock)
- Designer: redheadstock
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use, with a credit
- Download Feathers from DeviantArt
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This pack of brushes features brushes from the likes of ostriches and peacocks as well as plain and patterned feathers. The set is free for personal and commercial use as long as you can credit the artist, but if you can’t then you can buy a license for just $4.
43. Tie-dye Photoshop brushes
Add a splash of tie dye to your work
(Image credit: Diego Sanchez)
- Designer: Diego Sanchez
- Usage: Various, see licensing rules
- Download Tie-dye from WeGraphics
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So these brushes are hard to categorise, but we’ve put them in the natural category owing to their hippy vibes. The 15 brushes are based on real tie-dye shapes, with a mix of solid and transparent areas. We think they could make fun backgrounds for all sorts of projects.
44. Simple fabric brushes
Use these brushes for natural surfacing
- Designer: Bitbox
- Usage: Free for personal and commercial use
- Download Simple fabric brushes from Bitbox
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These straightforward fabric textures can be used to add natural-looking surfaces to your work. At high resolution (2500×2500), they’re fit for both print and digital uses.
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