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25+ Best Pencil Brushes for Illustrator, Photoshop and Procreate

Attain striking realism for your drawings with pencil brush sets we've handpicked for you.

Ksenia Pedchenko by Ksenia Pedchenko
April 26, 2021
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The digital artistic world is an exact reflection of physical art. All the classic drawing tools like watercolor, pastel, charcoal, or gouache are now so common in Photoshop or Procreate, and their realism is unbelievable. To extend your collection, I’ve decided to make up my top list of pencil brushes, which are just gaining momentum and popularity in digital art.

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Regardless of what you draw, a nice pencil brush (or even a few!) will always come in handy. If you are a sketching maniac like me, you should have loads of them: of different kinds, sizes, textures to create true-to-life drawings with tiny peculiar details that grab details. Alternatively, it’s just great to have the full variety of quality tools — at least, you never know where inspiration gets you and what your next masterpiece will be! Whatever app you use for drawing, we’ll get you covered with pro-grade brushes for Procreate, Illustrator — and there’ll be Photoshop pencil brushes from our fav creators too!
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Pencil Procreate Brushes

Pencil Procreate Brushes

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Made to look as authentic as possible, the kit features 25 pencil brushes for Procreate: simple strokes alongside hatching and stippling styles. You either finish right at the sketch stage, making it look like an artistic draft or carry out a whole pencil composition. Let the world know what’s going on in your extraordinary mind!
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Procreate Pencil Brushes

Procreate Pencil Brushes

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Get this Procreate pencil brush set combining vital for any artist pencils with eccentric tools for shading and texturing! This pack equips you with must-have pencil brushes to use for sketching, academic drawing, childish doodles, and what not! Start with a pencil sketch, and polish your artwork until it shines!
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Free Charcoal Pencil Photoshop Brushes

Free Charcoal Pencil Photoshop Brushes

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Discover a new professional charcoal pencil brush set for Photoshop. Harrison Luke created it to pull all the fascination of minimalist art from a pencil box and bring it to the digital projects and designs. All brushes were hand-drawn and converted to Photoshop Brushes. Perfect for a variety of creative and artistic projects — so just let the world know what’s going on in your extraordinary mind!
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Illustrator Pencil Brushes

Illustrator Pencil Brushes

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Each pencil brush from this pack was made by scanning a real pencil stoke, carefully vectorizing it, cleaning it up and then converting it into an Illustrator art brush. The painstaking work means that the brushes retain the beautiful texture of the original graphite textures, and your colored pencil drawings are doomed to success and flows of fascination.
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Basic Brush Set for Procreate

Basic Brush Set for Procreate

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As some designers cannot get the brushes right with their setup for comic book work, here is a great basic set of Procreate brushes for such projects. The artwork in this image was created entirely in Procreate and with these three brushes — so be sure to try them out to create your comics illustrations, crosshatch pencil drawings and so much more!
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Essential Vector Brushes Collection

Essential Vector Brushes Collection

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This is a collection of 150 hand-drawn vector brushes for Illustrator CS3 and higher. Inside this collection, you will find high-quality brushes that bring you an organic hand-painted feel to your projects. Pencil brush, watercolor brush, charcoal brush, and tons of variations are great for illustrations and separate design elements. Use them to start your next pencil sketch and drive it to a perfect result.
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Photoshop Pencil Box

Photoshop Pencil Box

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This pencil brush box is not only about sketching! It has an artist’s back when they need something fresh for shading and texturing illustrations in Photoshop — including a soft stipple brush. Therefore, with only a few brushes, you can create realistic, subtle works in Photoshop and bring up your skill of classic pencil drawing to a new level.
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Essential Hand Drawn Brushes for Procreate

Essential Hand Drawn Brushes for Procreate

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They’re special because each and every single one of them is so unique: 20 Procreate brushes in all the unimaginable forms and textures. You can make your image look soft and spongy or turn to the more strict lining or sketching — nothing holds you back from that, your resources are unlimited. Along with a brush copying a colored pencil, the set also includes pastel, markers,grain and more.
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Lynn Chen Photoshop Brushes Set

Lynn Chen Photoshop Brushes Set

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Work on illustrations, editorials, commercial images, social media posts, banners, greeting cards in Photoshop and get rid of the thoughts about lack of proper tools — Lynn Chen was growing this toolkit for quite a while, and now it has everything you need. Moreover, if your aim is to take care of rough sketches, here you go: there are a few nice Photoshop brushes perfectly fitting this creative craving and precisely tooled for true-to-life pencil strokes and effects.
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Pencil Brushes Photoshop

Pencil Brushes Photoshop

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31 Photoshop pencil brushes for your sketch art! Lines, shadings, stamps, arrows — whatever the stage you are at now, there is a matching pencil brush. Pick up your mouse or stylus and start with your very first sketch, and be sure it will look exactly like the one drawn on regular paper. Even if you used to find pencil strokes plain and boring, we’re convinced that this brushes pack for Photoshop will make you change your mind.

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Pencilcraft Brushes

Pencilcraft Brushes

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The set includes 30 infinite brushes, deliberating you from stretched pencil strokes. Tooled for Adobe Illustrator, these brushes save your precious time you might have spent on painting and digitizing them manually. They bring authentic pencil brush effect to the vectors you work on, the quality of the outcome will never be open to question!
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Shine Like a Unicorn | Procreate Brushes

Shine Like a Unicorn | Procreate Brushes

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Let’s get to know this collection better. 18 brushes with one-of-a-kind textures will cast a spell on any material or shape you draw, turning it into a tangible one. 4 line brushes will pierce the artboard like tiny unicorns, arranging the existing edges or starting the new outlines. The set can cope with fluffy, smooth, lumpy or any other possible (or impossible) texture you come up with, so don’t give up on your bravest ideas like your own universe or cartoon characters!
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Free Graphite Pencil Photoshop Brushes

Free Graphite Pencil Photoshop Brushes

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Perfection in every Photoshop pencil brush — we have a strong sense of what you need best. Here go the hand-crafted brushes, perfectly imitating the look of graphite pencil and subtle pencil shade. There are 6 Photoshop brushes imitating pencils of different hardness for professional sketching. So if you are pursuing pencil effects that strike with realism, these free Photoshop brushes will get you covered.
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Natural Brushes for Procreate

Natural Brushes for Procreate

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Natural Brushes for Procreate is a collection of 20 super-versatile brushes consist of colored pencil strokes, chalks, and shaders! Are you looking for something special — like a brush set that you can use from start to finish? Here it is! Pick a Procreate pencil brush and onboard sketching with ease and fluency. Illustrations, patterns or decorative shapes — this set will fit every creative craving of yours.
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Colored Pencils for Photoshop

Colored Pencils for Photoshop

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Let’s bring some color to pencil drawings with this free colored pencil brush set for Photoshop. You can take advantage of soft pencil brushes, which are just like the regular ones — and use them as the most enabling drawing tool for digital sketches, fan art illustrations, greeting cards, and more. Please note that it’s a demo pack, and you can always get a full version of these Photoshop brushes if you like them as we do.
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Pencil Pack — Procreate Brushes

Pencil Pack — Procreate Brushes

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This Procreate pencil brush pack features 21 custom brushes in a variety of different pencils and textures. These brushes started with real pencil shapes and paper, then scanned in at a high resolution and optimized in Procreate to make them as realistic as possible. Also included in this pack are 8 color palettes which are based on a colored pencil brush set from the corner art store.
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Photoshop Pencil Brushes

Photoshop Pencil Brushes

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This is a set of 20 free Photoshop pencil brushes with a robust realistic look. Every texture used is seamless to ensure perfect brush strokes every time you onboard an illustration for your designs. These pencil-type brushes were created with an eye on detail, for the best of genuine pencil stokes was now available in Photoshop too! Just lay your regular pencil aside and pick a pencil brush instead, so nothing impedes an exciting digital sketching process.
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Texture Brushes for Procreate

Texture Brushes for Procreate

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This set is made with love and a drop of magic. Inside there are a lot of drag-and-drop textures and effects for your beautiful and comfortable colored pencil sketching. To paint with such brushes is a great pleasure! Download them and enjoy the drawing process — so you can even introduce your own pencil-drawn cartoon characters. Installation instructions come inside the archive (make sure you have the latest version of Procreate installed).
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Pencil Brush Toolset

Pencil Brush Toolset

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The pencil brush toolset for Photoshop contains a total of 6 brush presets in both .ABR and .TPL format. There are texture brushes, suitable for details and roughing the drawing — and brushes meant for shading large areas. Although this free Photoshop brushes pack looks basic, it can significantly boost your creative work and help you create realistic designs following the classic drawing style.
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Sketchers Procreate Brush Set

Sketchers Procreate Brush Set

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A set of 8 sketching brushes for Procreate for a day to day illustration and lettering work. It was developed for the range of applications you want, from a sketching brush from initial lining and quick mark-making when you’re figuring a piece out to quick fillers or more textured pencil brush options to add depth. This set can look way too limited with just 8 pencil stroke options, but it has all shapes and tools for academic drawing.

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Pencil & Charcoal Procreate Brushes

Pencil & Charcoal Procreate Brushes

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A set of 14 handmade charcoal and pencil brushes for Procreate to give a traditional media look to your drawings! This set comes with charcoal brushes (great for shading), and different pencil brushes that can be used for sketching. So while you never know where the inspiration takes you, you’ve got the tools for a perfect pencil stroke or simple shapes to start with. Just don’t hesitate to check the installation guide beforehand!
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Colored Pencil Brush Set

Colored Pencil Brush Set

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Pick a lovely pencil brush from the pack to give your designs an organic textured feel. This Photoshop set is also suitable for those who have never encountered real materials and immediately began their creativity in the digital space, as all the brushes included in the kit are intuitive to use. In fact, these Photoshop pencil brushes are exactly the same as the ones from your regular pencil box — so you’ll just have to substitute paper with digital canvas.

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Graphite Pencils for Procreate

Graphite Pencils for Procreate

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This package was created to make the academic drawing in Procreate as lifelike as possible. You’ll be fascinated by the maximum similarity to real materials — just see how flawless the produced pencil shade looks! In fact, these brushes are designed to reproduce the behavior of real materials as realistically as possible. You’ll find included 21 brushes and 2 classic drawing paper textures — so they will support you anytime, from basic crosshatch pencil techniques to hand-drawn patterns and professional pencil sketches.
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Drawing Box – Procreate Brushes

Drawing Box – Procreate Brushes

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The Drawing Box features 30 custom brushes based on charcoals, colored pencils, crayons, and markers. Many of these pencil-type brushes use the Apple Pencil’s tilt capability for realistic side shading. Every texture used is seamless to ensure perfect pencil brush strokes every time. For a quicker start, you’ll find a description under each brush to see what shapes or lines it will be best for.
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Pencil Photoshop Brushes

Pencil Photoshop Brushes

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The major advantage of this Photoshop drawing toolkit is hidden in the variety of forms included in the collection. Basically, you get yourself the whole pack of lead pencils: hard and soft, made as sketching and stipple brush presets. This Photoshop pencil brush set is extremely convenient to use, it fulfills all creative needs of a graphic designer and is seasoned with an antique art approach.
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