Procreate How-To Guides
Everything you need to get brushes onto your iPad and make the most of Procreate.
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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →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.
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