30 of the best Procreate brushes

Mobile painting app Procreate is quickly becoming the go-to digital sketchpad for both professional and hobbyist designers and artists. That's why we've curated this selection of the best free Procreate brushes – as well as the best premium options – for you to bookmark.

Winner of the 2013 Apple design award and ImagineFX Editors Choice, Procreate is more than just a quick drawing tool. The iPad app transforms your iPad into a drawing tablet capable of the level of artwork previously only possible on a desktop or expensive graphics tablet dedicated to digital design.

There's an unlimited library of brushes available, meaning you can have every style and stroke available at your fingertips. So which ones do you want? Read on for our pick of the best downloadable Procreate brushes to add to your collection.

01. Procreate Brush Box Vol. 1: Hand lettering

Price: Free

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.

02. Flat Brushes

Price: $5

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.

03. Comic Ink Brush Set

Price: Free

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 50’s includes both inking brushes and SFX additions. The perfect addition to any illustrators Procreate repertoire.

04. Pencil and Charcoal Procreate Brushes

Price: $6

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 capture a moment in a coffee shop without wasting paper.

05. Dearest Dotty

Price: Free

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 it’s versatility and the unique retro vibe it helps give off when used for hand lettering.

06. Flora: Vegetation brushes

Price: Free

Matthew Baldwin’s vegetation brush set makes light work for concept artists. Set the scene instantly and master that painterly effect digitally. Baldwin has captured every style of stroke seen by the concept masters.

07. Gouache brushes

Price: $14.40

Bardot has a few brush packs available on her site 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.

08. Brushes and foil textures

Price: $14

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.

09. Procreate Paint Box

Price: $12

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 his 4 pastel brushes from his “Pastellesque” set.

10. Nitty Gritty

Price: $3

Jamie Bartlett’s Nitty Gritty texture brushes are brilliant for adding fine grit texture and an instant ageing effect to your designs.

11. Bistro Marker

Price: Free

As you can see from her Instagram, Leftyscript’s 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.

12. Vintage Engraving

Price: $6

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.

13. Hand Drawn Ornaments

Price: $19

Calligraphy artist Nicole Mauloni’s Hand Drawn Ornaments Procreate Brush Kit includes over 100 brushes to adorn digital calligraphy. Perfect for creating a design stamp with flourishes, shapes and motifs.

14. iPad Lettering Set

Price: Free

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.

15. Rad & Happy

Price: Free

Rad & Happy founder, Tara, often gets asked what brushes she uses for her designs, the answer? These. And she’s made them downloadable, completely free of charge!

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16. Brush Tiger, Lion, Leopard and Jaguar

Price: $5

Studio FabianFischer's Brush Brushpack contains these four feline-named textured hand lettering Procreate brushes. The brushes are all pressure-sensitive, to give you a realistic edge.

17. Thin Ink

Price: $3 (AUS)

Sasha Hickson, aka Peachface’s ‘Thin Ink’, is a popular brush for making quirky and modern designs. Easily replicate delicate thick and thin strokes and quickly add those feminine flourishes to your designs.

18. Monoline

Price: $3

Designer at Hewitt Avenue, Sarah, makes all the brushes she uses for her own designs available to download. Her Monoline brush is a versatile addition to your brush collection and perfect for the newbie letterer.

19. Chalk Letterer Box

Price: $10

Forget the dusty hands, Guerilla Craft’s brush set lets you create your chalked masterpieces on the comfort of your own clean, digital iPad. With a selection of wet chalk, smudge chalk, round chalk, flat chalk, gritty chalk and more, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better selection.

20. Dry Marker

Price: $15

Everyone loves the effortless scribe of a dry marker and Bec Ralec’s (aka Pixelcolours) collection of add on brushes gives you 15 different marker pens to choose from. Ralec has also kindly included an original calligraphy brush for all your graphic needs!

21. Fat Ink

Price: $3

Thin ink is great and all, but what about when you need that fat, bold brush to really make your lettering stand out? Sarahtypes has you covered with her super smooth brush, giving you an extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes.

22. Midcentury Illustrators Kit

Price: $12

Go full-on retro with Lisa Bardot’s latest premium brush kit of 12 Procreate brushes, designed to help you master that quirky 60s graphic, texture-rich commercial design style with ease.

23. Matty B’s Hatch Effects

Price: Free

Another fantastic free brush pack from MattyB, perfect for the budding or professional illustrator. Lines, dots, scribbles, marks, you name it – it’s in the pack!

24. Lettering Brush Pack

Price: $15

Ryan Hamrick’s selection of 14 custom Procreate lettering brushes allows you to produce high-end, professional lettering work on your iPad. A Beautiful selection of his own favourite brushes, there’s little you can’t do with this pack.

25. Nikko’s Brushes

Price: Free

Well respected Procreate digital artist, Nikolai Lockertsen, has made his own five favourite custom brushes available to download. Just check out his site to see what he had achieved with this small set of tools, it’s nothing short of phenomenal.

26. Blackletter

Price: $8

Created by Boston-based calligraphy artist, Jake Rainis; the artist says he’s downloaded almost every set on the market to see what works and what doesn’t in order to produce this, his own extensive brush set.

27. The Parchment Pen

Price: $3

This pressure sensitive brush mimics the look of an Eighteenth Century quill, making it perfect for calligraphy but also great for black and grey line drawings.

28. Whiskers

Price: Free

The Inky Hand’s Whiskers brush is a fantastic little brush, perfect for creating a unique hand-drawn, scratchy effect. Great for rough sketches and adding a touch of originality to your images.

29. Sketch and Ink

Price: $2

A fantastic little package of inky brushes to use while sketching. DizzyTara’s 9 brushes include a variety of shaped ink pens and a board marking brush.

30. Watercolor Brushes

Price: $18

A very comprehensive set of 45 watercolour brushes from graphic designer PicByKate, allowing you to master the watercolour effect in digital format. Newly updated for Procreate 4, the custom-made brushes include washes, textures, edges, effects, stains and more.

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