Learn Procreate
Everything you need to get more out of your brushes and your iPad. Our step-by-step how-tos cover the essentials — downloading, importing and installing brushes, and building your own from scratch — while our longer guides help you choose the right style and level up your art.
Every guide is free, beginner-friendly and updated for 2026.
How-to guides
All how-tos →How to Download Procreate Brushes
Downloading Procreate brushes takes less than a minute once you know where the file goes. Brushes come as a .brushset (a whole named collection) or a single .brush file, and when you download one on an iPad it lands in the Files app under Downloads. From there a single tap sends it into Procreate.
How to Make Your Own Procreate Brush
Making your own Procreate brush turns any shape, texture or drawing into a reusable tool — a custom stamp, a textured pencil, a foliage scatter, whatever you need. Every brush in Procreate is built from just two ingredients: a Shape source (the silhouette of the mark) and a Grain source (the texture that fills it). Once you understand those two, the whole Brush Studio makes sense.
How to Install Procreate Brushes
Installing Procreate brushes means getting a .brushset into your library so it stays there permanently, ready whenever you paint. It's a quick process — a single tap in most cases — but there's a faster drag-and-drop method too, plus a few things worth knowing about organizing and troubleshooting.
How to Import Brushes into Procreate
Importing brushes into Procreate is usually a one-tap job, but there are three ways to do it depending on where your file lives — and Procreate can even import Photoshop .abr brushes. Whether you're adding a full .brushset or a single .brush, here's every method plus how to find brushes that seem to vanish after importing.
Guides & tutorials
All guides →Types of Painting Brushes in Procreate
Procreate can mimic almost any traditional painting medium — but only if you pick the right brush. Oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor and pastel each behave differently, and reaching for the wrong one is the fastest way to make digital work look flat and generic. This guide breaks down the main painting brush families, explains how each one behaves, and shows you when to reach for it, so you can build a painting kit that actually matches the look you're after.
Procreate iPad Tutorial for Beginners
New to Procreate? You've picked the best drawing app on the iPad — powerful, affordable and used by professionals worldwide — but its stripped-back interface can feel mysterious at first. This complete 2026 tutorial walks you through everything a beginner needs: the interface, the gestures that make Procreate fast, brushes, layers, colour, selections, and a full walkthrough of your first finished drawing. Work through it start to finish and you'll go from opening the app for the first time to exporting a piece you're proud of.
Free Procreate Brushes by Style
Looking for brushes in a specific style? Hunting through giant, unsorted brush dumps is a waste of time when you know exactly what you need. This hub organises Procreate brushes by style and links you straight to every category, so you can jump to the exact stamps, liners and textures for your project — and find the free starter sets in each style along the way.
Niche Procreate Brushes
Beyond pencils and paint brushes lies a whole world of specialty Procreate brushes built for very specific jobs — the ones that turn an afternoon of tedious detail into a few taps. Most artists don't realise these exist until they're grinding through fur strand by strand or trying to freehand a perfect knot border. Here are the niche categories worth knowing about, what each one solves, and when reaching for a specialty pack will save you hours.
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