From time to time, designers employ metallic brushes, textures and patterns in creating a variety of artworks and web designs. This is pretty common especially if you need to produce high-quality and photo realistic designs. Whether you are creating icon sets, posters, flyers or web backgrounds, you will always find it necessary to use some metallic brushes, textures or patterns if you want it to exude a distinct look and feel.

Grungy and rusty metals for example can evoke a feeling of being neglected; of being mysterious and macabric. On the other hand, a shiny steel texture would have a look of being rigid, strong and unforgiving – characteristics which are somewhat different from that of wooden textures; and those which are captured from paper. Meanwhile, gold can be used to portray pomp, affluence and elegance in artworks and designs, etc. This of course would depend by large measure on how a designer would execute his concepts and ideas and how he manipulates the materials available to him.

So in this article, we are sharing with you some metal textures, patterns and brushes that you will find useful every now and then. If you have anything in mind, or if you anything to add, please don’t hesitate to share with us your thoughts. We also encourage you to share this article to your friends. Who knows they are also looking for a pattern that they can use on their project. It is not easy to look around for things so making these resources handy is always a good practice. Enjoy!

Metallic Photoshop Brushes

Metal Parts PS Brushes by cesstrelle

A handful of metal part brushes for your artworks.

Arc’s Rivets + Metal Brushes by Arcy-is-distracted

138 Custom Photoshop Brushes (PS7)

Rivets 1 Brush Pack for Photoshop or Gimp

20 different rivets from various metal surface texture images

METAL  SET by For-Certain

9 metal texture brush set

Gears Photoshop & GIMP Brushes by Obsidian Dawn

34 Brushes for Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, Gimp 2.2.6+

Bullet Holes Brushes by redheadstock

26 brushes for Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, GIMP 2.2.6+

MDS ClockWork PS Brushes V2 by MorfineDoll-stock

xbfences 01 by xbstock

Barbed wire brush by Cat-in-the-Stock

2 Barbed Wire Brushes.

Metal Mesh Brush by AnotherJamesDean

HQ Metal mesh brush 1136 px works in all sizes smaller and up to 3x full size.

Rust Grunge Brushes by JonasKr

A pack of 15 grunge brushes.

Scratched Metal Grunge set by NightCrawla

5 HQ set of scratched metal grunge.

Chain Brushes by mjarkin

a set of 8 brushes

Bleeding Metal – Rust by archaii

10 rust brushes in this set

GrungeAbstract Pack by Metal-CX

Metallic Textures and Patterns

Metal Texture by beyn

Split metal by enframed

Rusted Metal by Texturemate

ulv Metal plate texture by enframed

Metal Rust Texture 21 by FantasyStock

metal 04

grunge metal by night-fate-stock

Metal Rust by ~shadowh3

Metal Rust Texture 22 by FantasyStock

Metal Rust Texture 05 by FantasyStock

Metal Rust 17 by FantasyStock

Metal texture with nails by enframed

Metal Texture by Grant Hutchinson

Metal Drain Cover by GrungeTextures

Texture – Foil 1 by Dori-Stock

Gold Metal Wrinkled Paper by Enchantedgal-Stock

Gold Bead Halo Circle by Enchantedgal-Stock

Gold Leafing Gilding Texture by Enchantedgal-Stock

scratched metallic texture by night-fate-stock

metal texture 7 by wojtar-stock

yellow metallic texture by night-fate-stock

purple metallic texture by night-fate-stock

Metal Floor Texture by loner654

HQ Metal Tileable Texture 10 by css0101

Red Metal Texture by Lars Christopher Nøttaasen

Spiderman Pattern by s0nkite

Grungy Blue Betal with Square Pattern by Grunge Textures

Metal grid pattern by PSD Graphics

Diamond Cut Pattern on Shiny Metal Surface by Grunge Textures

Metal pattern 03 by =Limited-Vision-Stock

Metal texture/pattern 3 by enframed

Metal texture/pattern 4 by enframed

Metal Texture by Geetesh Bajaj

High resolution metal by williamsaar

Metal with Small Black Holes by Urban Dirty

Carbon Sheets IdealHut

SK Metal Grids HD Patterns by s0nkite

Metal Fence texture –tiled by JayL-stock

10 Tileable Metal Texture by MuzikizumWeb

9 High Resolution Metal Surface Textures by Orman Clark