#procreate has a lot of amazing built in brushes tbh

[caelanglang]

What brushes do you use on procreate? I just got an iPad and thought I’d give it a try but all the brushes are giving my primal traditional paper and pen drawing brain a headache

Do you have any tips?

Thanks

As someone who prefers paper too, I totally understand. I enjoy the built-in sketching brushes of procreate! If you’re using an Apple Pencil, tilting it gives pencil like results! Here are some of my favorites (these are all on default settings)

Pencil tests ft. Dazai

If you want a digital brush, the one that I am using for most of my sketches came from a brushset I found on Bilibili! I lost the original source but the brushset name is called NAY. I tried looking for them again on Bilibili but I couldn’t find them anymore I’m so sorry T-T)// I would love to share the brushset but I can’t do it without asking for permission….

But here’s the brush settings of my favorite brush from the set! (I highly recommend customizing your own brushes if you wanna mess around! :3)

Also for streamline, I love increasing that one for my fave brushes just so that I could have cleaner lines :)) I have a procreate pencil and 6b pencil duplicates of the exact same settings but with increase streamline

ps. I actually don’t know much about these settings but mess around and find what suits you the most if :,3

If you also want to have the traditional eraser feel, I recommend lowering the opacity of your eraser! It gives the sketch on paper vibe more imo :))

For coloring I use airbrushes and also mess around with the ink brushes! Here are some of the built-in brushes I love using

To be honest, I like to gather different brushes I find on the internet and test them out as I paint, so I don’t really have a ‘main’ preference but these are the built-in ones I always resort to for coloring! (Airbrushes of all kinds of range save lives in my humble opinion) let me know if you want me to compile some brushes / artists brushes :)) I’ll try my best to find them ><;;

Hope this helps! I wish you all the best!!

[animunerdery]

what art program do you use?

I will answer this properly with a process post at some point in the future, but for now… few different things!

The more “polished” looking stuff is obviously photoshop. It’s a lot of scanned textures, custom brushes, “stamp tool” for some scanned (stolen) textures, noise generation, Gaussian blur, unsharp mask and repeat for some other textures, “spray” brushes with tweaked color randomizer settings, “graded edge” pencil brushes that act as more controlled “spray” brushes, and tons and tons of time and layers.

It’s not necessarily start to finish photoshop has all the answers, but it is, bring in things from this corner of the internet, from this found object, from these textures pulled from art rage or rebelle, and then do the majority of doodling / painting / assembly in PS.

Some of the quick watercolor stuff is just procreate, but it’s obviously not as polished as photoshop because I don’t really know how to use procreate, but still will knock out some quick ones while on the couch. If I were to use PS, again, bc just how versatile it is, there’s a lot more real textures / color variation that I’d be able to bring in that I just don’t know how to do with procreate. There are people out there who can do some incredible stuff with procreate though!!! Also apparently heavy paint is also amazing and yet another iPad app that I don’t know how to use but want to play around with more, it also has built in color randomizers which will help achieve a more analogue look.

The majority of the black and white stuff is on an e-notebook that I do everything in, from work related stuff, to dumb assed doodles during meetings or waiting around on renders. It might look the most digital in some ways (bc the setting I save to renders pixel brush lines), but feels the most analogue.

Tbh tools do matter to a certain extent. Find the tool you’re comfortable with and dive deep.