For some, painting on an iPad isn’t as easy as doing it traditionally. Even if you are a gifted artist, sometimes the options in the app can feel limiting. Even though Procreate has been one of the best drawing apps for iPad since its release, there’s a long way for it to go. Fortunately, to help you level up your drawings, in this guide, we have covered the best free Procreate brushes you can download in 2022. Each of these brushes works on the most recent 5.2 update, which allows you to import 3D models in Procreate. From calligraphy to anime art styles, we have included brushes and even some stamps to satiate the needs of every artist. Not to forget, since most of these brushes use general file formats, you can use them on a few Procreate alternatives as well. With that out of the way, let’s explore the best free Procreate brushes in 2022.
We have personally tested the brushes on this list in Procreate 5.2. So you can expect the brushes to run perfectly on any version of the app after Procreate 5.0. You will find 30 brush sets, offering you access to over 800 different brushes, along with their free download link in the description below. This list isn’t ranked, so feel free to explore the brush sets as per your interest.
- Stocking Stuffers – Free Background & Texture BrushesPaperlike Dynamic – Free Environment Brush SetMarc Brunet’s Free Starter BrushesFree Procreate Pencil BrushesJingsketch Basic – Free Premium BrushesAbbie’s Watercolor Procreate BrushesTree Silhouette StampsNature Leaf and Grass BrushesCloud BrushesMaria’s Free Deer Stamps for ProcreateAnime BrushsetWebtoon Frame BrushesComics Halftone BrushesLettering Daily BrushesLiner Brushes for ProcreatePattern Factory – Free Textile BrushesPixel Art BrushesAlien Galactic Space Brushes for ProcreateGalactic Lens Free Light BrushesManga Motion BrushesFree Rain Brush PackCalligraffiti MarkersFur & Fluff BrushesHair Brushes for ProcreateTaozipie Skin Details – Free Skin BrushesMatt’s Painting Procreate Brush SetFlower Brushes & StampsFlora: Vegetation Brushes for ProcreateAzzylum’s Default Brush SetUnique & Original Handmade Brushes
1. Stocking Stuffers – Free Background & Texture Brushes
Starting with artwork creation, our first brush set focuses on a collection of unique background textures. All of these brushes can help you create seamless textures that are great for making wallpapers in indoor scenes. If you are creating an outdoor world, these can be used to add depth to buildings, rocks, and similar objects. There’s even a Christmas-themed brush that gives you a collection of snowflakes that fit perfectly in winter-themed arts.
2. Paperlike Dynamic – Free Environment Brush Set
Once the background is ready, it’s time to create the environment for your characters. This professional brush set from the Paperlike team is one of the best picks. Unlike most environment brushes, these don’t only focus on still worlds. You can use the brushes to create moving elements in the background too. From mountains to thunder, the range of dynamic elements in this brush set is huge.
Usually, each brush set focuses on particular aspects of an artwork. However, this set of professional brushes does more than that. Coming from art instructor Marc Brunet’s collection, this set offers 17 unique brushes that you can use in many different scenarios. These are great for artists just starting with Procreate, as you can find most of the brushes required to follow professional tutorials.
Number of Brushes: 17Download Marc Brunet’s Starter Brushes
A usual hiccup that artists face when shifting to digital painting is a lack of realism. Fortunately, this entry on our list of best free Procreate brushes tackles that well. This brush set offers unique pencil brushes that can help create a realistic granite effect. There are brushes of different sizes and shades similar to the B series of pencils.
If you have been part of the Procreate community for long, chances are you might have heard of Jingsketch. It’s one of the most popular and reliable premium sources of brushes, tutorials, and more. The following set gives you a taste of premium brushes with a set of 10 basic brushes from Jingsketch’s official collection.
This collection includes general-purpose brushes that you can use for a variety of artworks. They are high-quality recreations of real brushes and provide versatile functionality. Half of them are painting brushes, while the rest are for smudging and sketching. These are best used for character creations or soft environments.
If you are someone like me who shifted from traditional to digital artworks, the recreation of watercolors might be an issue for you. But not anymore. This brush set will help you recreate watercolor effects in their entirety. Not only do these brushes look real, but each stroke also leaves a reducing color trail.
7. Tree Silhouette Stamps
Let’s move our focus away from traditional brushes and check out stamps with this collection. Unlike regular brushes that depend upon your flow, stamps work by a single tap. Their primary aim is to recreate certain shapes without too many details or colors. This particular set of stamps gives us the easiest way to make trees in Procreate.
In any nature-based artwork, creating leaves and grass is easy. But it can also get tiring because of the repetitive actions and placement of the same shapes. If you relate to this situation, you will love these best Procreate nature brushes. Each brush inset either creates realistic leaves or grass patterns. In the case of the leaves, You can rotate the brushes while reusing them to make sure the patterns are unique.
Number of Brushes: 10Download Nature Brushes
One of the easiest ways to bring your artwork to life is by adding clouds. They are not only relatable for most people but also are easy to fit into most scenes. But that doesn’t mean they are easy to make. Lucky for you, our next stamp brush will take care of that. With these five unique brushes, you can make almost any type of cloud.
Continuing with stamps for our growing list of best free Procreate brushes, we have deer stamps. Whether it is Harry Potter or a common forest scene, artists love to create deer silhouettes. Unless you are using stroke stabilization to make smooth lines, making a deer isn’t an easy task. That’s where this set of brush stamps comes in.
With a variety of poses from running to eating, this stamp covers almost every type of deer silhouette. Thanks to the high quality, you can even use these brushes with the outline for your deer. But make sure to use similar sizing when using multiple deer brushes to maintain consistency.
Anime is an art style that is gaining popularity all over the world and this brush set is made to cater to artists making anime artworks. With 8 brushes, this set covers most of your basic anime art requirements. The brushes are focused on creating characters and backgrounds. So, if you are planning to make structures too, you will have to use other brushes alongside these.
12. Webtoon Frame Brushes
If you plan on drawing comics, manhwa, manga, or any webtoon-related content, you will love this brush collection. It caters to a popular complaint of Procreate not having framing options in the app. And with the new pages layout of the new 5.2 update, this brush set can make Procreate the best app for making webtoons.
Comic books, from the early 1950s to today, have undergone a variety of changes. But one can agree that vintage comics have a certain art style that is hard to replicate. These halftone Procreate brushes aim to bring the original vintage pattern and texture-based style in modern comics too. With a variety of patterns, including dots and lines, these brushes add a clear retro style to any artwork.
Number of Brushes: 16Download Comics Halftone Brushes
Lettering in general terms means the art of drawing letters instead of writing them. Unlike calligraphy, lettering involves adding shadows, borders, and more to letters. In a way, letters are treated as characters with personality and require very accurate brushes to make. This set provides us with 8 brushes that are perfect for lettering.
The next entry on our list of the best free Procreate brushes takes lettering to the next level. This collection of brushes is handy for lettering. But with their variety, you can also use these brushes to make illustrations. Beyond regular ones, this set even includes slim smooth brushes for outlines and details.
This collection works best with bright colors and pastel-style illustrations. Most of the brushes here are recreations of crayons, chalks, and markers with unique textures. Using them with a rough paper background can help you create realistic scribble-based illustrations.
A mistake that even professional character artists sometimes make is not focusing on clothes and other textiles. One can add shadows, highlights, and reflections to them, but the originality lies in their textures. Thankfully, this brush set is all that you need to add this extra layer of detail to your clothing illustrations.
17. Pixel Art Brushes
With the popularity of games like Alt254, it seems like pixelated games are here to stay. And this brush set fits perfectly with each of them. Unlike most Procreate brushes, this set doesn’t focus on realism. Instead, it tries to accurately replicate pixelation of illustrations with 3 separate brushes. One of them is for drawing and the other to add effects.
As the name suggests, this is a collection of space-themed Procreate brushes. The collection is a mixture of stamp and pattern brushes. But you will have to rely on other sets to paint the main subject and structures. Though, all the background and environment details can be covered using this brush set.
Number of Brushes: 10Download Alien Galactic Space Brushes
While we are on the topic of space, this Procreate brush set can also take your space illustrations to the next level. It focuses purely on light-based effects, and if you have noticed any space photos, they can make a lot of difference. But thanks to the way these brushes are created, you can even use them in non-space-themed illustrations. Each of them can make your light sources feel more realistic.
Among all the best free Procreate brushes, this one is the easiest to recreate. But it will also take a lot of time to do manually. If you haven’t recognized these familiar patterns, these are template patterns for motion in almost every manga and anime. They are usually used to show a character or an object moving at a very high speed.
It’s perfect for use in any motion-based artwork or an action anime scene. Two out of these 3 brushes focus on the subject moving sideways. Meanwhile, the third brush shows the perspective of a character coming or going at a distance. You can also use these brushes to leave a motion trail in regular illustrations involving high-speed vehicles or rockets.
Rain is a universal natural element that can generate relatable vibes in almost every artwork. But the task of creating each raindrop and making sure they are similar can be very tedious. The only possible and reliable replacement for the manual task is this rain brush set. It offers a variety of rain brushes with different drop-length, volumes, and spacing.
22. Calligraffiti Markers
Our next brush set caters to the popular and iconic art of Calligraffiti. which combines traditional calligraphy with graffiti styles. You might have seen it in global movements and even on graffiti walls around the world. With accurate recreation of the style and spirit of real graffiti paints, this Procreate brush set is one of a kind.
These brushes are for anyone like me who finds it hard to draw animals because of their fur. With 17 different brush options, this set helps us create realistic fur on animals of all sizes. There are even brushes with a fluffy effect, which you can use to draw animals like cats. But you don’t have to stop at animals only.
Number of Brushes: 17Download Fur and Fluff Brushes
For every kind of hairstyle, this is the only free Procreate brush set you need to install on your iPad. With 19 options for different flows of hair, it has everything covered. Not only that, but you can even use these brushes for regular painting if you want to add a multi-thread look to your work. Their high quality ensures that you can even use them freely on your main enlarged subject.
The final entry to our list of best free Procreate brushes is a special one. You can use the other brush sets to create your environment and its characters. But these brushes are essential to add personality to your human characters. As you might have guessed, it’s a collection of unique details that one can have on their skins.
There are freckles, fractals, tattoos, and more in this set. But other than regular roundish skin spots, it allows us to add custom-shaped ones too. You can have a variety of glitter on your face, along with uniquely shaped freckles. There are even options to use tiny stars, hearts, and other shaped brushes to create tiny tattoos on your face.
When you think of water painting you most probably think of translucent colors that merge with each other. But when it comes to the gouache method, each color has its opaque pigmentation thanks to a binding agent. So, you can get sketch pen-like detailing with little to no mixup. That’s exactly what this set of brushes provides with various gouache-styled brushes.
27. Flower Brushes & Stamps
In the real world, scenes filled with flowers are one of the best ways to relax your mind. However, it comes to painting, it can be tiring to draw repetitive flowers. Even more so when they don’t even have to be of separate colors. Fortunately, Crystal Hawklee has a perfect brush set to solve this issue.
Whether you are making an architectural sketch or a detailed mountainside scene, vegetation will set the vibes of the area more often than not. But the problem is that, due to the level of detail, it can take you hours to get it right. While we can’t entirely replace the process, this brush set is bound to speed everything up.
Number of Brushes: 91Download Flora: Vegetation brushes
The default set of brushes in Procreate might get the job done for most people but they are far from perfect when it comes to fulfilling the community’s needs. And now, you have a reliable alternative that satisfies way more art styles.
If you want to create realistic artwork but don’t want to go through the effort of switching brushes in Procreate, this is the only brush set you need. It consists 200+ hand-made brushes, stamps, monolines, and texture brushes, which are suitable for almost every art style you can think of.
You can go from setting up a background to creating the main subject in no time. Moreover, all the brushes in this set are really detailed and of high quality. So, you don’t even have to worry about mixing colors and going for larger artwork.
