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Prepare to dive into the rich and exciting world of digital watercolor art with our newest brush roundup. Enhancing your digital toolkit with these brushes can be a game-changer for your creative workflow — as this is how you will seamlessly blend the charm of traditional watercolor techniques with the convenience and precision of Apple Pencil and iPad Pro.Â
The magic of digital watercolor brushes lies in their versatility. They can effortlessly emulate popular techniques such as wet-on-wet, glazing, or dry brushing, offering artists the freedom to experiment without the usual limitations of physical media. Moreover, brushes for Procreate are a boon for seasoned artists wishing to translate their skills into digital paintings and beginners just starting their artistic journey.Â
Our Team’s Top Pick
Procreate Brushes Waterella — Watercolor Aquas
Are you ready to enhance your drawing and make your watercolor sketches as realistic as ever? In this case, this beautiful set is exactly what you need to start painting masterpieces!Â
Waterella contains 23 paint brushes specifically designed for watercolor lettering and drawing. They imitate authentic strokes on canvas, so you will easily create true-to-life watercolor art with your Apple Pencil and iPad/iPad Pro.
Best Procreate Brushes for Any Task
Watercolor Procreate Brushes
Never too many brushes, right? Especially if it’s about watercolor brush strokes, you’ll need plenty of them to create the finest illustration.Â
Here we’ve got 22 brushes for Procreate drawing that cover so many needs! For example, you will have a Paint Line brush which will work like an everyday liner from an artist’s toolbox. Or a Wash Brush to fill big areas. Or a full set of Splatter brushes for watercolor drops. Oh, and so many other brushes to repeat different effects, textures, or watercolor washes.Â
Aquarelle Watercolor: Procreate Brushes
Aquarelle Watercolor is a set of 16 watercolor texture brushes and 5 paper textures, perfect for illustrations for kids, botanical sketches, and Japanese-style projects. Also, these brushes are pressure-sensitive, so you can use them for watercolor lettering.Â
To use them, simply choose the right brush, select the paint tool and draw. The color and width of the strokes can be adjusted easily. Just sharpen your Apple Pencil, and get to your digital canvas!Â
Aurora Watercolor Procreate Brushes
Get your iPad and Apple Pencil and be ready to onboard another artistic journey. To ensure its success, you’ll have 45 finest free watercolor brushes: airy swashes and smudges with a misty texture. With their help, you’ll easily create stylized mood board designs, invitations, cards, and typographic decor.Â
These subtle watercolor paint strokes are also great for digital drawings and custom-washed backgrounds. Another great thing is that a set of free brushes for Adobe Photoshop is available too.Â
10 Watercolor Brushes Procreate
Create airy sketches with another watercolor set. It brings real watercolor textures you can softly lay on a digital canvas for an authentic illustration in Old English style. Yep, all those clouds, moony roses, and still-life.Â
In this pack, you will find 10 watercolor brushes for Procreate for different types of strokes. You can choose a single brush for the entire painting or use all the brushes for a more realistic look.Â
Sketching Watercolor Procreate Brushes
Watercolor-based illustrations, classic paintings, and quick sketches come in a remastered format! With a kit of 40 watercolor brushes for Procreate, you can set the soft pigments free into your digital canvas. They precisely repeat the actual brushes behavior on paper, allowing you to alternate between leaking, dry, light, and heavy stokes.Â
Along with these awesome brushes, the set includes 3 paper textures, imitating degrees of the paper press: hot, cold, and rough.Â
Soft Watercolor Procreate Brushes
Here we have one of the most comprehensive collections of watercolor brushes for Procreate. So if you are intrigued to plunge into real watercolor art, there’s no tool to cover you better.Â
The set is enormous, indeed! It includes 17 watercolor brushes, 19 stamp brushes, 5 canvases with crispy-grunge paper textures, 16 pre-made Procreate color palettes, and even 4 video tutorials with the painting process and secrets.Â
Procreate Watercolor Brushes
This is a comprehensive set of 50 artisanal watercolor paint brushes for Procreate. It includes realistic watercolor strokes, textures, splatters, blenders, and pencils. With all these tools, this set makes it ridiculously easy to create highly realistic paintings.Â
Each watercolor brush has a different quality and has been tweaked and tested extensively. Some have a watery blend as you brush, some ‘bleed’ out as you push down, some are opaque like gouache, and some are sheer and build up as you paint.Â
Watercolor Procreate Brushes
This package is not only about 13 watercolor brushes; there’s something else you might be interested in. Put to good use 300 botanical color swatches and 7 canvas backgrounds to complete your realistic watercolor paintings.Â
The quality of a watercolor texture is so close to life that you can forget for a second that you’re holding the Apple Pencil and not a real brush.Â
Procreate Brushes — Modern Watercolor
We like to speak about watercolors as classic art, but why not feature them in a modern-style painting too? You can actually replace oil, ink, and gouache with them and create something avant-garde!Â
This realistic watercolor toolkit was made precisely for the cases when you want to create modern artworks in your Procreate app. There are 22 brushes for different types of strokes, so you can use them in watercolor lettering, painting, sketching, etc.Â
Procreate Watercolor Brushes + Paper Textures
There’s so much love for painting in every smear of this extensive collection. Want to take a look? We’re sure you already wish to replace your own brushes with these new ones and try them for different colors from your palette.Â
In this watercolor brush set, you will find 24 brushes for Procreate (.BRUSHSET), including 3 ink brushes from the ink set. There are also 26 stamp brushes and 40 realistic paper textures available in high and low resolution.Â
Watercolor Brushes for Procreate + Free Brushes Sample
Raise your hand if you like free samples! We do, too, especially if it is free watercolor brushes from such a fascinating collection.Â
Before you fall for these subtle washes and purchase the premium version, you can check the small set with free brushes, swatches, and paper textures. In fact, with only these tools at hand, you can already paint some lovely watercolor illustrations — think of how much you can do with a complete collection of 96 watercolor paint brushes, 8 color palettes, and 6 canvases.Â
Procreate Watercolor Brushes
As an artist, you surely have a basic watercolor brush set. However, your Procreate brush library would be incomplete without tools made specifically for portraits and advanced painting techniques.Â
These 10 watercolor brushes are an example of such a tool, and you can use them anytime you want to show your skills. They’ll particularly come in handy if you miss real watercolors and want to bring the same artistic mess of different colors and strokes to your digital canvas in Procreate.Â
Aqua Splash Watercolor Brushes [10 Free Procreate Brushes]
Procreate is already an amazing tool, but it’s even better with realistic traditional watercolor effects and textures to use in your paintings.Â
This set of 10 free watercolor brushes is just perfect to bring those juicy washes and splashes of watercolor paint into your work. The brushes were created using real watercolor paint splashes and splotches. They can be used to draw anything: fruits, botanicals, and even portraits, where you seek to play with different colors and textures.Â
Watercolor & Pencil Procreate Brushes
This set includes easy-to-use watercolor brushes for everyone who wants to immerse in watercolor painting on the iPad. No special skills are required: simply choose a brush, paint, and let the inspiration guide your hand.Â
The best thing about this collection is the combination of watercolors and pencils, so you can easily create authentic sketches. There are 7 watercolor brushes, 7 pencil brushes, 2 smudge brushes, and 4 color palettes that will be useful for drawing botanicals and kid’s illustrations.Â
100 Watercolor Procreate Stamps
We just can’t help loving this watercolor ink brush collection! Just think of how these abstract blooms and washes can adorn your projects!Â
This extensive watercolor brush set is made of high-resolution scans of watercolor paint strokes, blooms, and splashes. It features 100 stamps which you can use both for painting and adding watercolor/diluted ink elements to logos, branding, packaging, and prints.Â
Haze Long Procreate Watercolor Brush Pack
If you’ve always wanted to master watercolor brushes, consider getting a few freebies. This way, you will hone your drawing and painting skills and create your first artist’s toolbox.Â
Here you will find 10 free watercolor brushes, which you can use for your first artworks and sketches. In case you like these free brushes, you can upgrade your collection by getting 10 extra brushes, 2 palettes, 4 textures, 6 coloring pages, and a PDF guide.Â
Watercolor Brushes Kit: Procreate
What is a perfect Procreate watercolor brush for you? Should it convey the softness and fairness of watercolor paint? Or should it be easy to use & blend? Should it resemble a real brush you’ve used in your art classes?Â
Hopefully, this rich collection doesn’t make you choose! It brings 45 beautiful watercolor brushes that you can use just like only other brushes from your Proicreate toolbox. Also, you’ll find a few helpful guides, 7 color palettes, and 3 high-res paper files so you paint on authentic watercolor canvas.Â
Watercolor Procreate Brushes
This watercolor brush set will appeal to all creators fond of classic art and seeking a perfect set of tools to transfer watercolor painting from paper or canvas to a digital screen of their iPads. Well, here’s a perfect one.Â
We invite you to get your new brushes perfectly adapted for paintings in the classic washed technique. The set includes a total of 13 watercolor brushes, 7 paper backgrounds, and the incredible 300 botanical color swatches.Â
Soft Watercolour Background Brushes for Procreate
Too many free brushes? No, that’s impossible! At least because this is how you can try a new drawing technique!Â
This pack of free watercolor brushes is extensive, so you can’t help downloading it. Just look: there are three types of brushes inside. Brushes 1-6 are soft and perfect for backgrounds. Brushes 7-12 are more defined and crispy. Brushes 13-18 are finishing touches. Check the preview images — no other real brush would create such masterpieces!Â
Procreate Colter Brush – Watercolor
When speaking about watercolor brushes for Procreate, we often assume them to be super realistic. However, some creators want them to look a little “digital”, so there is a visible difference between regular brush and Apple Pencil-drawn artworks.Â
This brush set was made for such needs. It features 20 watercolor brushes (sketch, splash, swash, texture, etc.) and a few pre-made color palettes.Â
The Watercolor Experience FREE Mini Brush Set for Procreate
More helpful freebies for your creative toolbox! Here go 2 high-quality free watercolor brushes complemented by 1 Procreate canvas. Together they make a perfect combo for casual sketching.Â
If you like these free brushes (and we’re sure you do!), consider getting a full set, which contains 57 watercolor brushes for iPad, 4 different high-resolution paper textures, 14 watercolor washes sheets, and 50 watercolor stamps.Â
Ultimate Brush Toolbox – Watercolor
We couldn’t leave you without a bundle from one of the greatest masters, Nathan Brown! Indeed, this toolbox is a daydream of every artist, as it includes Affinity, Illustrator, Procreate, and Photoshop brushes for professional watercolor painting.Â
So, you will get 34 watercolor brushes in 5 formats for any of the listed apps. Also, there are 12 texture brushes in each format and a set of high-resolution paper textures (JPG) you can use anywhere.Â
Watercolor Landscape Painting Bundle
Instead of a pack of free brushes, you can have an entire bundle that works like an artist’s sandbox. It will be an excellent tool for creators new to digital drawing software and searching for professional guidance with their first watercolor painting.Â
Along with a set of free watercolor brushes, there’s a matching color palette and a Youtube tutorial where you’ll repeat the abstract landscape from the preview.Â
Watercolour Ink brush ✿ FREE Procreate & PS Brush
If you are looking for free Procreate or Photoshop brushes, we’ve got you covered! The provided free brush was made using a custom paper texture for a more realistic look.Â
This watercolor ink brush works smoothly in both apps, leaving a solid ink effect when applying pressure. The opacity can also be built it up with pressure and layering.Â
One Brush Wonder Watercolour Beginners Set
While some creators need tons of supplies, some will be happy with a single dual brush and two colors of paint. Both preferences are fine, and since we’ve already shared so many watercolor ink brush bundles, time to share an all-in-one tool for those ready to go minimal!Â
You’ll see from the preview images that you don’t need much to paint jaw-dropping watercolors in Procreate. For instance, you can have just this simple brush set: 1 watercolor brush, 1 blending brush, 2 bloom stamps, and 1 watercolor paper texture stamp.Â
Watercolor Hearts Stamp Brush Set
These watercolor brush stamps are so lovely! If you want a set of new brushes for cards, posters, prints, or anything unrelated to the actual painting, this one is a must-have!Â
The download includes 30 free watercolor brushes and a paper texture. You can layer them as you like or mix them with handwriting fonts to create romantic combinations.Â
The Artists Multimedia Craft Box – Procreate Brushes
The Craft Box is the perfect brush set to help you create your next masterpiece on your iPad. It comes with digital versions of all the media, including: 200+ pencils, erasers, pastels, charcoal, gouache, glitter, and, of course, watercolor brushes.Â
But it’s not exclusively a brush set! The Craft Box also includes a massive 169 textures and 12 color palettes.Â
6 Free Procreate Brushes by BrushUp Brushes
Another pack of free watercolor brushes that you can’t do without! They look so smooth and versatile that we’re sure you’ll be unable to pass by.Â
The brush set was provided to us by BrushUp Brushes! He specializes in creating realistic and natural artistic supplies for Procreate. The pack contains 6 brushes: 2 gouache, 2 oil paint, and 2 watercolor brushes.Â
Everything Watercolour for Procreate
This bundle from Uproot Brushes is the most comprehensive Procreate watercolor brush set you’ll ever buy. It’s filled with versatile and useful watercolor brushes that have become indispensable to many creators’ Procreate workflow.Â
No matter your painting style, you’ll be able to effortlessly recreate the look and feel of real paint on paper, all on your iPad. The bundle features 92 custom watercolor brushes for different uses, meaning you REALLY will be fully covered.Â
Frequently Asked Questions
- You can find free Procreate brushes on Behance, or Pixelbuddha, Gumroad, DeviantArt, or Procreate.Folio.
- Choose a brush you like and download the brush file (.brush or .brushset format).
- Transfer the brush file to your iPad. You can use Airdrop, iCloud Drive, or other file sharing options.
- Open Procreate on your iPad.
- In the Brushes menu, tap the “+” symbol to import a new brush, then locate and select your downloaded brush file.
- Select a watercolor brush from your brush panel.Â
- On a new layer, apply your chosen colors using light strokes, adjusting brush opacity and size for control.Â
- Set the layer’s blend mode to “Multiply” or “Linear Burn” for natural color blending.Â
- Use the smudge tool for a blended look, and experiment with different brushes or add a watercolor paper texture.Â