The hand drawn style of design is extremely popular right now. In this post we’ll take a look at a huge number of free resources for creating your own hand drawn design, plus plenty of examples for inspiration.

Hand Drawn Gallery:

These 20 websites are sure to give you some inspiration and ideas for your own hand drawn creations. Some use sketches or hand drawn elements throughout the design and others do so strategically in only a few areas.

Casio Exilim Lab

Alex Buga

BootB

Joe Grisham

Kev Adamson

Pointless Ramblings

Heather Sloane

Tennessee Education

Satsu Design

Richard Stelmach

Fray

Juno

Bearskinrug

Kitty Attack

Jesus Rodriguez Velasco

Basmati Tree

Josh Tilton

We Are Not Freelancers

Hand Drawn Navigation:

Many websites specifically use hand drawn elements for navigation menus and/or hover effects. Here are five example sites that do so.

Sarah Hyland

PSYOP

DPI Vision

SADD

Dann Whittaker Creative

Sketchy Icons:

The right icon set can give a website or blog an authentic hand drawn feel. You can either create your own icons, of take advantage the four free icon sets featured here.

Handycons

Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers



Sketchy Icons

Sketchy Icons

Tutorials for Hand Drawn Design:

Looking to improve your skills at creating the hand drawn look? The tutorials shown below are a great start. Both Photoshop and Illustrator are represented.

Photoshop Hand Drawn Design

Illustrating the Flower Pattern

Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

Create a Sketchy Hand-Drawn Camera Illustration in Illustrator

Illustrate a Grunge-Style Talking Skull in Vector

Design Your Own Hand-Drawn Font

Pencil it In

Hand-Drawn Photoshop Brushes:

One of the easiest and most efficient ways to give your work a hand drawn touch is to use Photoshop brushes. Fortunately, there are tons of free brushes in the sketching/doodle style. There are more than 30 of the best sets featured here.

Handmade Doodles

Doodle Brushes

Doodle Brushes

Doodle Brushes

Doodle Brushes

Doodles Brushes

Frames

Heart Doodle Brushes

Star Doodle Brushes

Cloud Doodle Brushes

Arrow Doodle Brushes

Flower Doodle Brushes

Stencil Alphabet Brushes

Stencil Word Brushes

Scratched Scribble Brushes

Square Stamp Brushes

Scribble Brushes

Dotted Doodle Brushes

Handwriting Brushes

Handwriting Months Brushes

Thorough Notes Brushes

Plant Things

Handmade Doodles

Intricate

Big Swirly Ornaments

Swirly Scribbles

Boney Doodles

Pencil Trace Brushes

Psychedelic World

Hand-Drawn Ornaments

Hand Drawn Floral Patterns

Hand Drawn Floral Brushes

Oh So Random

Hand-Drawn Illustrator Brushes:

Photoshop brushes aren’t the only easy way to add hand drawn elements to a design. Illustrator brushes are another great option, although there are as many readily available.

Scribled Dry-Erase Marker Brushes

Sketchy and Line Art Brushes

Tina’s Streaky Inks

Sketchy Illustrator Brushes

Hand-Drawn Fonts:

Hand drawn and sketched fonts are also very effective and easy to find. There are tons of fonts to choose from, here is a quick look at 16 quality choices.

Tire Shop

Estrya’ Handwriting

Paperfont

Sketch Rockwell

Honey Script

James Fajardo

Jerry’s Handwriting

Just Me Again Down Here

Jose Fernandez

Ellianarelle’s Path

Salamander

Alpha Mack

Angelina

Another

Rock Show Whiplash

Pointy

Paper Textures:

Many hand drawn style designs are done on textured backgrounds, particularly paper textures. SXC.hu is one of the best resources for free images, and here is a collection of 16 paper textures from their site (these textures are taken from 60 Free Textures from SXC.hu).





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