Anime Procreate Brushes

A crisp G-pen-style ink brush for line art plus a hard-edged brush for cel-shading are the essentials. Add screentone brushes for manga and dedicated hair and eye brushes for character detail, and you can draw complete anime pieces — clean lines and flat, two-tone shadows are the core look.

Flat-colour each element on its own layer, then add a new clipped layer above and paint the shadow as a single hard-edged shape — no soft blending. Use one shadow tone and keep highlights simple and graphic. That decisive two-tone approach is exactly what makes shading read as anime.

Yes — screentone brushes let you paint dot and hatching patterns directly into shadow areas for that authentic printed-manga look, on their own layer so you can adjust density. It's the digital equivalent of applying physical tone sheets, without the cutting and pasting.