Sketch Style: Ten Fonts and Ten Design Elements

Yesterday, we had a look at a few of the many fine Sketchy or Hand-drawing style sites on the web. Today, I’ve put together some resources that you might find useful if you are interested in applying that style to your own designs.

Here’s a compilation of fonts, photoshop brushes and vectors that have been sketched, hand-drawn and doodled.  All of the following design elements are free for personal use. For commercial use, please check the licence.

Les oeufs de Cassowary, Normal by Albertine Nerevan

Tiza by Pablo Caro

Tusj (Indian Ink) by Magnus Cederholm (formfett.net)

Sketch Block by Lukas Bischoff

Sketchy Times by !Exclamachine Type Foundry

Green Pillow by Billy Argel

Denne Threedee by Denise Bentulan

Pee Pants Script by Kirk Shelton http://www.dafont.com/pee-pants-script.font Check out his website too http://www.kirkshelton.com/ , for lots of cool sketchy illustration and inspiration.

Atman Dingbat by Eyesaw

Che Viva Banana by Font Environment . There’s lots more sketchy style dingbats on their site too.

There are of course, plenty more sketchy fonts available. Here’s the sketchy and hand-drawn styles on dafont.

Design Elements

Urban Scrawl Photoshop brushes from Invisible Snow

Scribbles and Doodles Photoshop brushes from my favourite brush “artiste” Osidian Dawn

Doodles and Sketches Vectors from Spoon Graphics

Hand-drawn arrows, RSS logos and social marketing icons from Think Design. –

Another from the Think Design blog, is this set of Vector Marker Scribbles.

Hand-drawn vector icons from Blog Theme Machine

Hand-drawn social networking icons from Charfish Design

Heart Doodle Photoshop Brushes by Susan Libertiny

Squishy Sketches by Squishy Paws

Andantonius’ Pencil Brush combined with paper action

This is a brush AND a photoshop action which used together will allow you to create natural looking pencil sketches.

So that should keep you busy for a while! Have you got some hand-drawn resources you’d like to share?

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