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Every digital artist knows: a great brush can catalize an impressive creation. And, when it comes to digital portraits, hair brushes for Procreate are the game-changer. Created to save you time and effort, they are available in abundant styles, types, and textures, covering the needs of any artistic vision.
Even if you’ve never drawn hair before, with a well-rounded collection, you can replicate different hair types effortlessly, adding an extra touch of authenticity to your creations. Whether you’re drawing flowing locks, sharp buzz cuts, or anything in between, the right brushes will help you achieve the result in a matter of seconds and totally transform your characters.
I know that many artists battle to find what they need since the Internet simply has too many options. Well, no more struggles! Below, we have compiled the best premium and free brush sets with a diverse selection of instruments that’ll both beginner and professional artists will find useful.
No time to waste — pick your favorite hair set and start drawing already!
Our Team’s Top Pick
Hair Brushes For Procreate
A hair salon on your iPad! This set makes it easy to create stunning realistic hair, complete it with highlights and lowlights, and so much more. There are also beard brushes, stamps for lashes and brows with adjustable volume, and even instruments for creating body hair! Isn’t it just divine?
Considering the diversity of hair variations, the pack would work for animal illustrations, too. Plus, you get essential base brushes as a bonus, so you don’t have to switch between brush sets when you’re beginning to draw.
Best Procreate Brushes for Any Task
10 Hair Brushes Procreate
Unlock the potential of your digital hair designs with this brush set for Procreate. Specifically created to enhance the rendering of hair, it’ll allow you to bring stunning realism to your portrait illustrations.
The pack includes ten hair brushes, enabling you to create realistic-looking hair, eyelashes, and eyebrows. Remember that you don’t have to choose just one stamp for your character: you can mix different brushes throughout one hairstyle to give it a natural texture.
Free 5 Hair Brushes Set
This free hair brushes pack was meticulously crafted to provide you with a comprehensive toolkit for drawing hair in your digital illustrations. It includes eight different tufts of hair, with diverse opacity and density levels, so you can experiment with how your character’s hairstyle will end up looking — like Gollum’s lank and sparse strands, like Legolas’s sleek tresses, or like Frodo’s curls.
10 Animal Fur Brushes Procreate
Master the art of depicting animal fur with this versatile brush set. Created to save you time and effort, these brushes for Procreate are tailor-made to mimic various textures and densities. Whether you’re crafting the soft down of a baby duck or the matted fur of a wild wolf, this set has got you covered.
From sleek strands to curls and tangles, the set offers 11 versatile brushes to choose from.
Procreate Portrait Brushes
All you need to create impressive portraits is right here! This brush set is a comprehensive combination of all possible facial hair and other features: freckles, skin texture, eyelashes, and beyond.
With these hair brushes, you can achieve any skin look, including light, tanned, and freckled — with single and even scattered freckles all over the face. Simply choose all necessary settings, and you’re ready to draw!
Nilyn Procreate – 10 Hair Brushes Set Ver.3
Dreaming of drawing anime-style characters? Your search for the perfect hair brushes can stop now! This hair set offers just enough variations of the tresses you need.
Each brush offers a high level of detail, enabling you to create both dreamy and realistic hair. There are ten stamps in total, ranging from blurry and sleek to thick and dark hairstyles. Keep in mind, this set focuses mainly on straight hair.
MAGERPAINT – Procreate Painting Brushes
This is a set with over 20 brushes for Procreate app, including sketching, freckles, shading, hair textures, and regular brushes. In each group, brushes come in diverse densities and degrees of sharpness, so you can definitely find something for your art. Remember, these brushes are compatible with Procreate only and do not work in Photoshop.
Free Hair Brushes for Procreate
Have you ever been amazed by the whimsical hair of anime characters? Then this brush set is for you! Plus, it’s completely free, so you can test it before purchasing the full version with 21 brushes.
The demo pack offers ten diverse hairstyles, including straight, fluffy, disheveled, fur, and curly hair brushes — all looking like they came off some fairytale by Hayao Miyazaki.
25 Hair Procreate Brushes for Every Hairstyle
These are your new brushes that’ll help you draw any possible hairstyle in a matter of minutes! Straight, long, wavy, curly, short… bald, you name it! All 25 brushes are diverse and high-quality and help create realistic hair for characters in your illustrations.
And if you don’t know how to draw hair — no worries! This brush set also includes a free detailed ebook tutorial and practice sheets for straight, wavy, and curly hair, which can be especially useful for a beginner artist.
Taozipie’s Neuonic Hair Brush Set for Procreate
Another great addition to your collection of hair stamps — and totally something Hayao Miyazaki would be jealous of. This brush set consists of 20 cool tools, allowing you to create gorgeous characters with both curly and straight hair, while the glowing hair stands this pack aside from others.
These hair brushes work best on colored hair — so don’t hold back and experiment with all possible shades!
Procreate Realistic Fur & Emoji
From pets to wild animals, capture the distinctive textures of their coats with these 30 incredibly fluffy brushes. These will let you draw realistic hair of whatever creature you choose, while the diverse selection of brush variations — from curls to smooth strands, from short hair to long — guarantees you’ll find something for your art and vision.
In addition to this set of premium hair brushes, you get 32 emoji stamps.
Free Hair Brush Set 3 for Procreate
More brushes for anime lovers! Here, seven hair brushes came together as a free pack, ranging from blurry strands to distinct curly hair. I believe these brushes will be especially useful in drawing straight hair — just try it and see what a stunning result you’ll get.
This is a free version of hair brushes by the same creator, so if you feel like you don’t have enough, go ahead and purchase the full set with 21 stamps.
Hair & Texture Brushes For Procreate
Here, hair, grain, and texture brushes came together to take your portraits to the next level. The set offers 20 realistic hair brushes featuring everything from grains to curls. All of them are custom-made so that you have all the tools you need, whether for drawing simple short hair or long and smooth tresses.
Remember that all of these brushes can be used for creating other facial features, too — eyebrows, eyelashes, and beard — and serve as funky titles and logos.
Free Hair Brushes Pack
Discover the artistic possibilities with this free hair brush set. Created for artists who demand realism and detail, these human hair brushes range from thicker strokes to extremely slim strands and help with drawing straight and flowing tresses for your characters.
All hair brushes are available for download separately, so you can choose exactly what you need and avoid unnecessary installations.
10 Hair Brushes Procreate
Remember those smooth, glossy locks in shampoo ads? Now you can add them to your digital illustrations. This set features 10 brush variations going from chunky, thick locks to thin, loose hairs — and both ends of this spectrum are useful for drawing impressive hairstyles, especially when mixed together. All you need is to install brushes and start creating!
Texture Portrait Brush Set for Procreate (Paint+Hair)
This is an extensive set of custom-made texture and hair brushes for drawing stunning digital portraits. You’ll be amazed by how many brushes are included — for general painting, lighting, hair painting, and even line art.
Explore all possibilities of this pack and create diverse skin tones, shadows, beard styles, curly hair, anime-style tresses, and even brows. The set also comes with a video preview, so you can “pre-test” all brushes before the purchase.
12 Handmade Brushes For Perfect Hair
Become a master of drawing realistic-looking hair with this variety of hair brushes for Procreate — from big strands to wispy individual hairs. And here’s how you can organize the process: start with the basic shape of the hair and then add details with textured hair brushes.
All stamps are divided into categories, for instance, there’s a group of brushes for drawing flowing hair, a group for realistic curly hair, a group for coloring, and so on.
Animal Fur Procreate Brushes
This is probably my favorite set of brushes for animal hair — if you’ve been looking for the right brushes for your digital beasts, search no more. Offering an extensive collection of hair styles, from angora to mouse, some of them have fun names like “dirty dog”.
I believe you can also use them as beard brushes — imagine what cool textures that’ll bring out in your characters! Some stamps could also work as realistic curly hair and brows.
Free Hair Brush Set
If you’re just starting drawing and not sure what brushes you need, try out this free pack. Created to achieve a realistic feel, each hair brush here has a slightly varying opacity and density. There are nine brushes in total: two darker ones would make a great hair base, while others help add texture to the look. These brushes could work for anime characters, too.
Hair Brushes for Procreate Vol. 2
There aren’t many brush packs that include braids, but this one does — and once you find something like this, you should grab it right away! Welcome 14 brushes, designed for drawing easy curls, afro, flowing hair, fast braids, and more.
The best thing is. once you create curly hair or braids — with just one stroke of your brush, by the way — you can finish the hairstyle with loose hairs included in the pack. This way, you can make your curl designs even more natural and true to life.
Free Procreate Brushes – Hair Base
Sometimes you don’t know where to start — a fear of the blank page is not a joke. This free pack will solve all your conundrums! Introducing a collection of brushes for hair bases that’ll lay the groundwork for your future beautiful textures.
The set has 10 base brushes, each slightly different from the other. After drawing the base, simply finish the design with textures you like. Keep in mind that this collection best works with straight hair and that you might need another brush set for your finishing touches.
Hairlicious – 10 Brushes For Procreate
Not sure about you, but I love the “hairlicious” word. And, it reflects exactly what this pack can do for you. This toolkit mostly consists of curly hair brushes which are hard to find, even in the abundance of hair brushes for Procreate. There are frizz variations, thick curls, and even afro!
By the way, keep in mind that these brushes have nothing to do with realistic hair, but would be an absolute hit in anime or illustrations for kid’s books.
Dans Fur Hair Brush Stamp Procreate
Here’s another fun brush set solely dedicated to animal hair. What I like about this collection is that it includes brushes reminiscent of feathers and scales, so you can easily create birds, reptiles, or other animals with wings in your illustrations, not just the typical furry species. There are eight brushes in total.
20 Procreate Hair Brushes
I simply love this hair brush set! Created with your comfort in mind, all brushes have speaking names so that you understand what is meant for what right away. You’ll find instruments for hair illumination, coloring, detailing, and even adding some glamour and glitter to the look.
This extensive collection has 20 brushes in total, and although it’s not free, I believe it to be an excellent addition to whatever you have in your toolkit already and a worthwhile investment.
Dans Fur Hair Brush Stamp Procreate
This is a pack of highly-realistic stamps that’ll let you create beautiful, detailed animal characters in your digital projects. The collection includes nine brushes, five of which can be used in both linear and rounded shapes, as well as four for larger strokes.
Each brush is a true-to-life representation of what you’ve probably seen in person, but also has a cartoonish feel so that you can make your drawings more fun — whether that’s illustrations for a kid’s book or something more adult-oriented.
20 Free Hair Brushes for Procreate app by Anja Bravestorm
This collection was definitely made by an anime lover. Apart from cool hair embellishments like glitter and detailed strands, this set is the queen bee of smooth hair. The detail-oriented approach allows us to see every single strand of hair, which adds volume to the final look and drives the audience to stare at the portrait for hours.
These dreamy brushes will also do a great job for the manes and tails of mythical creatures like the Pegasus or the Unicorn.
Fur Procreate Brushes
Immerse yourself into the world of Pixar yet again with this premium brush set. Here, there are 12 brushes in total — and all of them are pen-sensitive and completely different from each other. Some are spiky, some are wavy, and some are completely tangled and chaotic.
This set will help you create unconventional cartoon characters like in Monsters, Incorporated, which might be tricky with traditional fur brushes used for common animals like cats and dogs. The creators of the set also suggest using a combination of different brushes to find the perfect hair look.