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30 Best Free Vector Textures (Backgrounds to Download Now)
Using Illustrator background textures offers the quickest way to add detail to an image or design. Today we'll feature an awesome collection of free vector distressed textures as well as the best premium Adobe Illustrator textures available from Envato Elements.
Free vector textures may be a good option when the budget is tight, but sometimes you need a professional source of cool Adobe Illustrator textures. When that's the case, Envato Elements is your best option. Elements is a subscription-based marketplace that offers tons of logos, fonts, graphic templates, add-ons, and more, for one low monthly fee.
25 Premium Textures for Illustrator
1. Inky Goodness Texture Vector (ABR, AI)
This bundle is chock-full of inky cool textures! Load up the watercolor brush in Illustrator, throw in a mess of textures, and your next design is ready to be splashed in all kinds of inky paintbrush texture glory. These cool textures would pair particularly well with any crumpled paper texture Illustrator sets.
2. The Complete Vector Blueprint Kit (AI)
The Complete Vector Blueprint Kit is packed full of vector textures as well as matching Illustrator brushes containing everything you need to create your own vector blueprint designs. Pair it with a crumpled paper texture vector for an extra touch of realism.
3. Stipple Brush Set for Photoshop and Illustrator (ABR, AI, EPS)
While many stipple brush sets focus on larger, more graphic stipple styles, this brush set recreates an incredibly realistic stippling effect. Using just a single brushstroke creates hundreds of tiny dots.
4. Classic Chalk: Texture Vector Brushes and Patterns (AI)
Chalk as a medium has so many uses: for illustrations, menu boards, hand lettering, or as a learning aid in the classroom. This set of authentically detailed, digital chalk Illustrator brushes is no different. Add texture to your typography or use it as a shader brush.
5. Halftone Brushes + Bonus Patterns (AI, EPS)
Add depth and style to your designs and artwork with these textured halftone pattern Illustrator brushes and textures. The brushes are pressure-sensitive, making them perfect for illustrating, but they're also repeatable patterns, so they work just as well in traditional design too.
6. Vintage Texture Illustrator Brushes (ABR, AI)
Easily add on the years to enhance the retro realism of your work—both design and illustrations—with this set of vintage texture Illustrator brushes. This vintage texture Illustrator pack can be used to create high-contrast folds or add a very subtle texture.
7. Set of Watercolor Brushes and Textures (AI, EPS)
This set of watercolor brushes and textures is great for adding a hand-made feel to your designs. There are six textures and a whopping 36 watercolor Illustrator brushes in total, making it the only watercolor texture pack you may ever end up needing.
8. Subtlecraft: Textures and Brushes (ABR, EPS)
The Subtlecraft texture pack can be used to add subtle textures to your designs in order to achieve authentic retro effects. It includes 50 vintage texture vectors as well as 10 Illustrator brushes. This mega pack can also double as a grunge texture vector resource.
9. Tileable Texture Illustrator Set (AI, EPS)
The Tileable Textures pack is here to solve your design woes with these tremendous tileable textures. These textures are so highly detailed, it's almost hard to believe that they are not only vectors, so they can be infinitely upscaled with no blurriness, but they are also tiled and can be repeated infinitely. There are few abstract texture vectors that can claim both.
10. 22 Splatter Brushes Texture Illustrator Pack (ABR, AI, EPS)
Get the splattered paint look without the mess with these 22 paintbrush textures. These textures are a key tool in any designer's toolbox, being multi-purpose and suitable for a number of different applications, from party flyers to book covers.
11. Shader Brushes for Illustrator (AI, EPS, PNG)
The Memento Shader Illustrator Brushes are some of the best distressed texture PNG vector brushes you'll find. You get to work with 28 brushes included in the set, divided into four groups, all with their own distinctive features and purposes.
12. Scatter Texture Brushes for Adobe Illustrator (AI)
Need distressed texture vector brushes that can also double as an eroded texture vector? Then this is the brush set for you. Grab two for one with this multi-purpose brush set. You can choose from 48 different high-quality texture brushes made from dust, rust, and scratches.
13. Splatter Collection for Free Vector Backgrounds (AI)
Here's a set of 40 vector paintbrush texture brushes for Illustrator. Use them to create grungy effects, add noise to your shapes, or add texture to your images. All the brushes were made on paper with a spray, before being scanned, traced, and polished.
14. Wood Texture Illustrator Brushes (AI, EPS)
Add depth and texture to your designs and illustrations with these wood texture vectors. These wood texture Illustrator brushes were created by live-tracking photos of real wood, ensuring a high-quality and realistic wood-grain texture Illustrator effect.
15. Engraved Repeat Patterns (EPS)
This set of engraved patterns is perfect for giving your design an instant overhaul—use them on text, backgrounds, or vector objects. There are 16 seamless patterns in total, and they are an easy way to add texture to an image while keeping things minimal and clean.
16. Poster Press: Screen-Print Creator (AI)
Turn your designs and illustrations into beautifully imperfect screen prints in an instant. These grunge texture vector brushes are the easiest way to make your very own authentic-looking prints. They also double as a great vintage Illustrator pattern to create retro-looking designs.
17. Under-Inked Print: Instant Vector Text Effects (EPS)
Make your designs look as if they have come straight off the press with these realistic, vintage print layer styles and vintage patterns for Illustrator. They also work wonderfully as a vector rust texture, so you can mix retro with industrial.
18. Ghost Signs for Adobe Illustrator (AI)
This collection of 27 styles for Adobe Illustrator is full of vector rust textures inspired by ghost signs, which are the old signs you might find in antique shops or even abandoned warehouses. The styles are based on a combination of graphic styles and Adobe Illustrator actions, making adding texture to your designs both simple and quick.
19. Tattoo Style Art Brushes (ABR, AI)
The two different sets of brushes that are included in this pack work together harmoniously to make stunning textured art. Add small areas of dots and texture to your current design or create a whole new illustration, all using one set of Illustrator brushes and textures.
20. Charcoal Collection Texture Vector Set (AI)
These brushes are great for giving your lines a rough, textured, handmade effect. Use it to illustrate or to add texture to borders or even type. This one is great for flyers and fine art alike.
21. Gouache Textured Vector Brushes (AI, EPS)
How about this collection of 45 Adobe Illustrator textures for your next project? The brushes were created using digitized surfaces hand-painted with gouache paints to create an organic brush texture look. Combine them with paper texture vectors to create an authentic hand-crafted feel.
22. The Ultimate Texture Brush Library (AI)
You will not be disappointed with this awesome set that contains a wide range of brush textures. The kit is well organized in groups to make it easier for you to find exactly the texture you need.
23. Grunge Layer Styles (EPS, AI)
Apply these Illustrator background textures and create an aged or distressed look in just one click. The pack contains eight style variations, each available with a range of different colors.
24. Grit, Grunge & Grain Scatter Brushes (EPS)
If you love that ever-so-popular grunge effect, you won't be able to resist Grit, Grunge & Grain Scatter Brushes. This fabulous pack offers a huge selection of brushes created from both natural and manmade textures. Loads of options to keep you busy for hours.
25. Ink Grain & Speckles for Adobe Illustrator (EPS, AI)
These ink, grain and speckles textures for Illustrator are just what you need to create your own cool and unique projects. Great for bringing a handmade look to your work, this collection of 24 styles and actions and 16 textures is all you need to take your work to the next level.
30 Best Free Vector Textures
Now, let's take a look at the top 30 free vector textures that the internet has to offer.
1. Unicorn Vector Gradients
Gradients are a great way to add both subtle texture and color to your designs quickly and easily. This pack of unicorn-themed gradients boasts bright pastels that are vibrant while remaining soft and smooth.
2. Wood Texture
Add some nature vibes to your design with this wood texture vector Illustrator pack. It's subtle enough to be used alongside any design, but detailed enough to be used as part of the main element as well.
3. 9 Free Vector Grunge Textures
Need cool textures? This grunge texture Illustrator pack contains nine premium vector textures for a non-premium price. You guessed it, they are free! These vector blots and textures are a free download that can be used for anything from vintage designs to grungy apocalyptic illustrations.
4. Paisley Repeating Texture
Create a seamless paisley textured effect using this vector texture. Not only can the pattern be repeated infinitely, but you can also change the color of the background for quick editing.
5. Free Vector Distressed Textures
Can't get enough cool textures? Want everything to be grime, or look as if it's from a vintage era? Then this grunge texture Illustrator set containing nine hand-drawn grunge texture vectors for free is the set for you. This set even includes a halftone texture variant of grungy goodness.
6. Leather Texture Pattern
Adding leather to a design is the perfect way to add both texture and subtle detail without taking away focus. This free vector texture mimics realistic leather in a seamless, easy-to-use pattern.
7. Vector + Raster Grit Textures
These vector blots and textures are free to download and are endlessly useful. Use them to add subtle detail or pair them with high contrasting colors to create an even grittier-looking aesthetic. This particular pack features wider spread grit, with larger blotches.
8. Free Texture Background Pack for Adobe Illustrator
Need an eroded texture vector that's a bit more concentrated? Then this vector pack will give you that aged and weathered appearance, while maintaining a scaleable vector format. It's incredibly detailed while remaining a vector.
9. 8 Free Seamless Dot Patterns
These eight free seamless dot patterns give you a halftone vector effect, but with even more dots. Easily add interesting free textured backgrounds to your designs, and never have to worry about a misaligned or out-of-place dot again.
10. 7 Speckled Vector Textures
Give your designs a worn and distressed look with this speckled vector textures pack. The distressed texture PNG Illustrator set contains seven high-quality textures available in both a vector format and transparent PNG. If you are looking to add a rust or distressed look to a metal texture vector design, then these distressed texture Illustrator add-ons are a great option.
11. 12 Free Vector Backgrounds
Don't miss out on this set of 12 high-quality, distressed textures for Illustrator in vector EPS format, an absolute must-have resource for any digital artist or designer. You can never have too many vintage texture vectors, after all!
12. Wave Texture Freebie
Add some funky waves to your design using this texture background vector. Add a pop of color and texture to flyers, CDs, and posters with this repeatable design. Cover your design in it for a bold, trendy look, or keep it minimal by using it as an accent color.
13. Canvas Texture Background Pack
Give your art a true canvas feel with this set of handmade canvas vector textures. Despite their highly detailed texture, they are indeed vector textures, so you can scale them infinitely as well as changing their color.
14. 10 Free Detailed Vector Halftone Texture Backgrounds
Be prepared to turn even the most contemporary design into a 100% vintage artwork in a click, with 15 impressive halftone textures for Illustrator. Each and every one of these textures is hand-drawn, making them incredible value for a free resource.
15. Urban Free Textured Background Pack
This pack contains 14 free texture background vectors that are perfect for adding a rough or distressed look to any design. Use them to mask type, or add them to an illustration to add more grit and detail.
16. Free Halftone Dots Textures
These ten halftone textures are free for both commercial and personal use. Use them to add a subtle hint of detail or mix and match them to create bold designs. You can even create a stipple-like effect with them.
17. 30 Free Vintage Shading Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
Round off your Illustrator brush stash with this collection of 30 free brushes. These brushes feature a variety of hand-drawn line textures in horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and cross-hatched angles. Add them to typography or illustrations for added vintage texture.
18. 9 Free “Washed & Worn” Aged T-Shirt Effect Textures
The Worn Textures pack offers a realistic option to fade and distress, offering a subtler but still detailed texture. The pack contains a total of nine textures, great for distressing your graphic designs and illustrations or even creating mockups of screen-printed T-shirts.
19. Vector Brushes: Free
Use these simple but effective Illustrator brushes to add texture to text, designs, and illustrations. Great for gritty posters and flyers or vintage designs.
20. 4 Free Ink Stamp Effect Styles for Adobe Illustrator
This pack of four graphic styles adds grungy textures to your logos, typography, and any other single-color shapes. Eliminate those clean vector lines and give your designs a hand-made ink print appearance.
21. 10 Free Vintage Textures
This free vintage texture Illustrator pack with dust vector textures offers subtle, hyper-realistic detail. It can also be used as a paper texture Illustrator pack, mimicking cardboard or other thicker types of paper and boxing material.
22. Furry Brushes
While these brushes might be great for furry monsters, they will also work wonderfully for adding small accents of furry texture onto a number of things. Think furry typography on a child's birthday invitation or even furry spots on a dog-sitting flyer. Have fun and get creative.
23. Water Painting Texture Background
Use these bold watercolor patterns for Illustrator to bring a trendy and modern look to your designs. They're great for flyers, posters, and social media—who says that watercolors can't be big, bold, and vibrant?
24. Childs Play Crayons
Add a burst of color and childlike whimsy with this pack of 12 free Illustrator brushes, for imitating crayons and colored pencils that have been scanned from the actual strokes of a crayon. Great for adding texture to illustrations or just adding textured borders around designs.
25. Textureizer: Free Vector Distressed Textures
This set contains six high-vector-quality textures and three wood-texture vectors, all made from real photos to give a rough, realistic look.
26. Halftone Pattern Texture Pack
This halftone vector pack boasts a collection of ten vector halftone textures. Halftone textures are great to use in craft projects, artistic prints, business cards, or any other graphic design project you might have. These textures work well with both modern and vintage designs.
27. Free Vector Mini Grit Textures
Take your design to the next level with this set of mini grit textures. Each texture’s grittiness is on the smaller or finer side to work perfectly with more detailed artwork. They are a great companion to your larger, more grungy texture vectors.
28. Motion Textures Freebie
Add both motion and color to your design in just a matter of seconds. No more fussing with trying to create that perfect stroke—these textures already have you covered. Create bold, trendy designs or keep it minimal—these textures can go both ways, depending on how you use them.
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This pack contains over 90 brushes of different shapes and forms, making it the perfect Illustrator brush kit for adding a variety of different paint and marker-like texture to your designs.
30. 8 Free Stipple Shading Brushes
Incredibly popular in apparel design and illustrations with a retro vibe, stippling is one of the easiest ways to add texture to an otherwise flat design. These brushes will perfectly mimic the stippling process, so you can start creating your own.
Get Your Illustrator Texture Brushes Today
And there you have it: the best Adobe Illustrator textures to add detail to your designs and illustrations. We've looked at both free vector textures and premium texture vectors from Envato Elements.
If you're looking for a quick and easy video that's all about Adobe Illustrator textures, check out this video from the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel in which we've curated a selection of the top Illustrator textures to add to your collection:
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