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Oil Pastel Procreate Brush Set 9-Pack: Create expressive art with these versatile oil pastel brushes for Procreate. Ideal for blending, textures, and vibrant illustrations. Elevate your digital artwork with this high-quality oil pastel brush collection

Realistic Oil Pastel Procreate Brushes | 9-Pack Vol. 1

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That buttery drag. The way color shifts inside a single stroke. The buildup when you layer. Oil pastels have a quality that's hard to fake — and most digital brushes don't even try.

These 9 Procreate oil pastel brushes were built from real oil pastels I use in my own studio. Scanned, tested, and tuned until they had the weight and texture of the actual medium. Pressure sensitive, but not too sensitive — so you have control without fighting the tool.

They blend beautifully too. No smudgy fingers required.

Instant download. Use them within minutes of purchase.

What's in the Set (9 Brushes)

Everyday Workhorses

→ Go-To Your foundational oil pastel brush. Versatile enough for most tasks, with solid texture and reliable behavior. The one you'll reach for first.

→ Softy Smooth, buttery coverage with soft edges. Great for transitions, blending, and anywhere you want a gentler, more velvety touch.

→ Hard One More control, crisper strokes. Useful when you need defined edges or want to work with a firmer, more deliberate mark.

Textured Surfaces

→ Rough Paper Natural paper-like grit comes through in every stroke. Feels like dragging a pastel across cold-press watercolor paper.

→ Rough Grain Visible, granular texture that adds tactile interest and keeps your work from reading too clean or digital.

→ Bumpy Uneven, organic grain for a looser, more expressive feel. Good for backgrounds and textured fills.

→ Fine Grain Subtler texture for detail areas that still need that oil pastel quality without the roughness getting in the way.

Special Effects

→ Texture Builder Each stroke automatically varies in color, creating natural depth and tonal variation in a single swipe. Great for building rich, layered looks without extra effort.

→ Rich Belly Color shifts inside the stroke itself, just like real pastel sticks where the pigment is never perfectly uniform. Adds authentic character to every mark.

→ Scratched Rough, irregular marks with an imperfect edge. The one to reach for when you want gritty, expressive work that feels handmade.

→ Hollow Belly Dynamic textured edges with lighter coverage in the center. Adds depth and interest to strokes without full coverage.

What Are These Procreate Oil Pastel Brushes Good For?

This is a focused starter set — ideal if you want the essentials without overwhelm. These brushes work for illustration, children's book art, editorial work, bold graphic pieces, and any project where you want visible, painterly texture in a digital workflow. They're especially useful if you:

→ Want a realistic oil pastel look in Procreate without it reading as digital → Are new to natural media brushes and want a tight, curated set to start with → Love expressive, textured mark-making with bold color → Are a student, hobbyist, or professional illustrator working on iPad

Looking for more range? Vol. 2 has 31 brushes and goes much deeper — you can find it here.

Compatibility

→ App: Procreate (iPad only — not compatible with Procreate Pocket, Photoshop, or Illustrator) → Device: All iPad sizes → Stylus: Apple Pencil recommended → File format: .brushset — imports directly into Procreate

Why These Feel Different

I'm a working illustrator. Every brush in this set starts with real oil pastels from my studio — scanned, tested, and refined until the feel is right. That's what separates them from brushes built on generic textures.

When the tools are right, you stop thinking about the technology and just draw.

Digital Product Details

This is a digital download. Nothing ships. After purchase, you'll receive an instant download link. Because of the nature of digital products, all sales are final — but if you run into any issues with your file, reach out and I'll make it right.

Read the full FAQ before purchasing if you have questions about compatibility or licensing.

Handmade digital assets by Esther Nariyoshi — illustrator, educator, and the person who actually tests these on real client work before selling them to you.

FAQs

If you're new to oil pastel brushes in Procreate, Vol. 1 is the better starting point. Nine brushes is enough to understand how the medium behaves digitally without overwhelming your workflow. If you're already comfortable with natural media brushes in Procreate and know you want a full professional toolkit from day one, Vol. 2 gives you that range immediately. The two sets are also complementary — Vol. 1's core brushes and Vol. 2's expanded options work well together.

For most oil pastel illustration work, yes — the 9 brushes cover the full range of what the medium actually does. You get your workhorse brush in the Go-To, smooth blending in the Softy, hard edges in the Hard One, multiple paper texture options, and the Texture Builder and Rich Belly for color variation. Where you'd outgrow it is if you want more expressive mark-making variety, more blending tools, or specialty finishing brushes — that's when Vol. 2's 31-brush set becomes the better fit.

It means the brushes respond to pressure in a way that feels natural rather than reactive. Some brushes are so pressure sensitive that a slight variation completely changes the stroke, which makes them hard to control. These were tuned so light pressure gives you lighter, more transparent marks and heavy pressure gives you fuller coverage — but the transition is gradual enough that you stay in control. It behaves the way a real oil pastel does when you vary how hard you press.

Most brushes in the set have a consistent texture throughout the stroke. The Texture Builder and Rich Belly are different — both automatically vary in color within each stroke, mimicking the way real oil pastel sticks are never perfectly uniform in pigment. The Texture Builder varies color across the stroke, building natural tonal depth in a single pass. The Rich Belly shifts color inside the stroke itself. Both add the kind of complexity that makes a mark look like it came from real media rather than a digital tool.

You can blend between colors. The Softy brush in particular is designed for smooth transitions — work a second color into the edge of the first and it blends naturally with repeated strokes. The Go-To also blends reasonably well for a workhorse brush. The key is working on the same layer and using light pressure on the overlapping area, the same technique you'd use with real oil pastels to push colors into each other.