Deploying the best Procreate brushes in your work will enable you to maximise the powerful painting app. Procreate has a vast selection of brushes, which are incredible add-ons to the app and help to make it the first choice sketchpad for both professional and hobbyist designers. This post rounds up the very best free and premium Procreate brushes for you, so all you have to do is download them.
It would be a mistake to assume Procreate is just a simple drawing tool – it can bring your iPad to life as a drawing tablet capable of rivalling your desktop, or expensive graphics tablet utilised in digital design projects.
There is an almost unlimited supply of brushes available across the web. You can have pretty much every style and stroke imaginable, and they'll enhance and elevate your projects. To expand your brush selection for other programs, check out our rundowns of the best Photoshop brushes and Illustrator brushes.
01. Sargent's Oils
- Price: $6
- Download here
These arty Procreate brushes will help you achieve the style of master realist John Singer Sargent. The creator of the brushes used actual paint brushes, painting on canvas and scanning the result at high resolution. You get a description of how to use each of the 12 brushes in the product images.
02. Dry Marker
- Price: From $10
- Download here
Everyone loves the effortless scribe of a dry marker and Latin Vibe's collection of brushes gives you 12 different marker pens to choose from. Channel a diverse range of styles within one brush texture.
03. Procreate Watercolour Kit
- Price: From $14
- Download here
This watercolour brush set gives you everything you need to paint realistic watercolours. The 12 brushes have a wonderfully authentic texture, and even come with video tutorials and mockups to get you painting digital watercolour art like a pro.
04. Procreate Smudge Brushes
- Price: $9
- Download here
Tested for use with the Smudge tool in Procreate, this set includes 18 brushes for creating colour blending effects and varied textures. Keep in mind that the brushes were created and tested using an Apple Pencil so that they will behave as advertised with third-party styluses is not a guarantee.
05. 68 Gouache Shader Brushes for Procreate
- Price: $19
- Download here
You get a whopping 68 gouache Procreate brushes in this mega pack from creative resources site RetroSupply, giving you rich gouache effects in Procreate in minutes (rather than the hours it would have taken to find the right textures and mask them in). They work brilliantly with an iPad and Apple Pencil, and are particularly well-suited for poster designs, books and vector illustrations – among myriad other uses.
06. Neon Brush Kit
- Price: From $6
- Download here
Milo Garret's brush kit is ideal for creating realistic handwritten neon signage, and comes with everything you need for getting that glorious glowy look. It comes with 12 neon writing brushes, plus an effects brush and three bonus light pen brushes for livening up photographs, as well as a set of 19 ready-to-use background images.
07. Texturrific Bundle
- Price: From $18
- Download here
Featuring 30 shaders, 14 liners and 14 pastels, Lisa Bardot's Texturrific bundle is absolutely packed with deliciously textured brushes that'll help you create all manner of effects and art styles without ever having to go near a pen and paper. All 58 brushes are fully pressure sensitive and made with a variety of high resolution, handmade texture sources.
08. Procreate lettering and paint brushes
- Price: From $9
- Download here
Petra Makes (StudioBurg)'s collection is an essential package, offering a selection of brushes that should suit most basic illustration and graphic design needs. She covers various pen and pencil styles as well as paint brushes, making it easy to pick your desired signature.
09. Flat Brushes
- Price: $5
- Download here
We all have that favourite brush used time and time again for lettering, and this particular collection is directly inspired by artist Ian Bernard’s old faithful. The brushes are varied from solid to textured to give you plenty of variation for your own work.
10. Comic Ink Brush Set
- Price: Pay what you want
- Download here
Perfect for those budding comic illustrators out there. Georg’s tribute to American comic book illustrator Will Elder, who helped launch MAD comics back in the '50s includes both inking brushes and SFX additions. This is the perfect addition to any illustrator's Procreate repertoire.
11. Pencil and Charcoal Procreate Brushes
- Price: From $7
- Download here
Swiss designer Kim (aka MiksKS) has a whole host of brilliant brushes to offer. Her pencil and charcoal collection make it easy to sketch on the go, with clients or just to capture a moment in a coffee shop without wasting paper.
12. Dearest Dotty
- Price: Free
- Download here
Designer Missy Meyer has a plethora of free Procreate brushes available on her website that are all brilliant for creating graphic script. The great thing about Dearest Dotty is its versatility and the unique retro vibe it helps give off when used for hand lettering.
13. Flora: Vegetation brushes
- Price: Pay what you want
- Download here
Matthew Baldwin's vegetation brush set makes light work for concept artists, enabling them to set the scene instantly and master that painterly effect digitally. Baldwin has captured every style of stroke seen by the concept masters.
14. Gouache brushes
- Price: From $12
- Download here
Bardot has a few brush packs available on her site (see #2) but her gouache one is particularly unique. Emulate the classic Disney illustrative magic of Mary Blair digitally, and add depth and personality to your graphic design caricatures.
15. Brushes and foil textures
- Price: From $14
- Download here
Designing event flyers? Wedding invites? Summit Avenue has got you covered with a set of 12 confetti brushes and 24 foil and glitter textures to add a touch of sparkle to your designs.
16. Procreate Paint Box
- Price: From $12
- Download here
Ben Lew’s paint box has a brilliant selection of brushes, from wet pencil to bristly and his go-to watercolour brush, 'gwosh'. Lew has now updated the set with four pastel brushes from his 'Pastellesque' set.
17. Nitty Gritty
- Price: From $3
- Download here
Jamie Bartlett's Nitty Gritty texture brushes are brilliant for adding fine grit texture and an instant ageing effect to your designs.
18. Bistro Marker
- Price: Free
- Download here
As you can see from her Instagram account, Leftyscript’s (aka Megan AF) brushes can create some truly beautiful hand lettering designs that speak for themselves – no further illustration needed! Her bistro marker is a brilliant freebie pen that allows you to capture a hand-written signage type-face perfectly.
19. Splash Vol. 1
- Price: Free (but donations are welcome)
- Download here
The artist, Matthew Baldwin, says these Procreate brushes are "so splashy you'll have to have a towel handy!" This bumper set of 48 wet media brushes will inject a splash of wet and watercolour effects that go beyond the usual Procreate set.
The author asks that you please donate if you can as donations will fund future brush projects.
20. Vintage Engraving
- Price: $7
- Download here
Another MilksKS brush set, this one allows you to capture the look of a black and white engraving, adding that extra special touch to your illustrations or design project. Combine a few for a classic crosshatching effect, and pick from a worn-out or clean cut style.
21. Shape and Ornament Brushes
- Price: $19.99
- Download here
Calligraphy artist Nicole Mauloni’s Hand Drawn Ornaments Procreate Brush Kit includes over 100 brushes to adorn digital calligraphy. They're perfect for creating a design stamp with flourishes, shapes and motifs.
22. iPad Lettering Set
- Price: Free
- Download here
Get back to basics with this freebie set of three essential brushes: original calligraphy, rough edge calligraphy and round edge calligraphy. Sometimes simplicity is beautiful.
Next page: More awesome Procreate brushes and brush packs
