Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes 16-Pack title card over colorful brush strokes, by Esther Nariyoshi

Eight gouache swatches on green, including Soft Filbert, Snappy Filbert and Quickly Fading. Acrylic Gouache Procreate Brushes

Dry Dual Tone, Wet Edges, Glaze and Light Rake swatches on green graph paper. Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes

Swatches of Soft Filbert, Snappy Filbert, Stray Hair, Quickly Fading, Dual Tone, Angled and Spotty Wild Cat gouache brushes

Double-layer swatches of Dry Dual Tone, Wet Edges, Glaze and Light Rake. Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes

Video of the Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes (16 brushes) in use by illustrator Esther Nariyoshi.

Dual-tone gouache brush shifting between two colors with stylus angle, shown in Procreate. Acrylic Gouache Brushes 16-Pack

Orange and green illustration showing realistic texture in action, Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes 16-Pack

Spotlight on the Wet Edges and Spotty Wildcard brushes on a green grid. Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes 16-Pack

Newly added Old Brush Hard Round and Old Brush Flat strokes. Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes 16-Pack

Spotlight on the Underpainting Dual Tone brush: each stroke samples two colors. Acrylic Gouache Procreate Brushes

Before and after of the Rewetting brush softening a green stroke. Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes 16-Pack

Realistic Procreate Acrylic Gouache Brushes | 16-Pack

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Gouache has a quality that's hard to replicate digitally: that matte, velvety finish, the way it sits opaque on the surface but still blends when you want it to, the visible brush shape in every stroke. Most digital gouache brushes feel flat. These don't. 16 Procreate brushes built from real acrylic gouache, real brushes, and real paint from my studio. Filbert shapes, angled brushes, worn bristles, wet edges, and something you don't usually see in brush sets: dual tone color shifting based on your Apple Pencil angle. Instant download.

What's in the Set (16 Brushes)

Filbert brushes

Soft Filbert. Smooth, rounded strokes with a classic filbert shape. For general painting and soft blending.
Snappy Filbert. A crisper edge with more precision, keeping the filbert character.
Filbert with Stray Hair. A worn brush with stray bristles that leave their mark. Reads immediately as hand-painted.

Dual tone and color effects

Dry Dual Tone. Shifts between two colors based on your stylus angle. One stroke, two tones, like a brush loaded with two colors.
Underpainting Dual Tone. The same dual tone behavior, tuned for laying in base colors.
Wet Edges. Smooth strokes with soft, slightly translucent edges, like paint that's still wet at the borders.
Glaze. A translucent stroke for building color slowly in layers. For depth, warmth, or shadow without losing what's underneath.

Textured and expressive

Light Rake. Fine bristle marks in every stroke. The sense of a brush moving through wet paint.
Angled. A classic angled shape for directional strokes. For foliage, fur, hair, and movement.
Tired n Angled. A worn, textured version of the angled brush with that paint-running-low quality.
Spotty Wild Cat. Irregular, unpredictable spotty texture. Hard to control in the best way.

Blending and transitions

Quickly Fading. Strokes that taper and lose opacity naturally. For soft edges and strokes that dissolve into the canvas.

Classic brush shapes

Old Brush Hard Round. A traditional hard round with visible bristle character.
Old Brush Flat. A classic flat shape for bold, confident strokes with clean edges.

What Makes It Realistic

Brushes: 16
Best for: editorial and commercial illustration, children's books where visible brush texture matters, and character or concept art with opaque, layerable color.

Opaque, matte coverage. Gouache isn't waxy; it sits flat and velvety on the surface. These brushes cover opaque but still blend when you want them to.
Paper showing through. Glaze is translucent for building color slowly, Wet Edges leaves soft, slightly see-through borders, and Tired n Angled has that paint-running-low dry-brush look.
Brush and pencil response. You see the brush shape in every stroke: filbert, angled, flat, hard round. Tilt changes the color on the two Dual Tone brushes.
Irregular edges. Filbert with Stray Hair leaves stray bristle marks, Light Rake drags fine bristle lines, and Spotty Wild Cat is unpredictable in the best way.
Layering. Lay in base color with Underpainting Dual Tone, then glaze and build on top for depth, warmth, or shadow without losing what's underneath.

What Are These Gouache Brushes Good For?

They work especially well for:

Editorial illustration and commercial work with a handcrafted quality
Children's book illustration where visible brush texture matters
Character design and concept art with opaque, layerable color

Compatibility

App: Procreate on iPad. Not compatible with Procreate Pocket, Photoshop, or Illustrator
Device: all iPad sizes
Stylus: any Apple Pencil, including the color shift on the two Dual Tone brushes; Apple Pencil Pro adds barrel roll
File format: .brushset, imports directly into Procreate
Delivery: instant download

Licensing

Three options at checkout. Personal: practice, personal projects, portfolio pieces, and social media. Commercial: adds client work and selling what you make, up to 5,000 units per design. Extended: no unit cap, for large production runs, fabric collections, or licensing to manufacturers. Upgrade anytime by paying the difference. Full terms are on the What Your License Covers page.

Questions People Ask

Do the dual tone brushes work without an Apple Pencil Pro?

Yes. The color shift comes from tilting your pencil, and every Apple Pencil can do that. Apple Pencil Pro only adds barrel roll.

Gouache or oil pastel?

Gouache is opaque paint: flat, matte, visible brush shape, filbert and angled strokes. Oil pastel is a drawing medium: drag, grain, blending on the page. If your work looks painted, this set. If it looks drawn, oil pastel or crayon.

What if the file won't import?

Email me with your order number. Digital sales are final, but a file that doesn't work is on me, and I'll get you a working one.

About the Artist. Esther Nariyoshi is a published illustrator based in the U.S. Her work draws on the three cultures she has lived in, and the brushes in this store start as real media in her studio.

FAQs

They produce fundamentally different results. The oil pastel brushes have a waxy drag and a softer, more blended quality. The gouache brushes are matte and opaque with visible brush shapes — filbert edges, bristle marks, angled strokes — that read as painted rather than drawn. If you want that flat, graphic, hand-painted quality that's specific to gouache and acrylic, the gouache set is what gets you there. The two sets work well together in mixed media pieces but they're not interchangeable.

It's surprisingly intuitive once you understand it. The Dry Dual Tone and Underpainting Dual Tone brushes shift between two colors based on your Apple Pencil angle — one color when you hold it more upright, another when you tilt it. In practice it means a single stroke can carry two tones the way a brush loaded with two colors would in real painting. You control it by varying your pencil angle mid-stroke. It takes a few minutes to get a feel for but becomes a natural part of painting quickly. Apple Pencil Pro is required for the full effect.

Yes — that style is one of the strongest use cases for this set. The Soft Filbert and Snappy Filbert give you the clean, opaque coverage that defines that look. The Glaze brush lets you add depth without losing the flatness. And because gouache in Procreate doesn't dry and lift the way real gouache does, you can rework areas as much as you need without the medium fighting you.

Both are possible depending on which brush you use and how. The Glaze brush is translucent enough to paint over linework while keeping it visible underneath — useful for a colored pencil and gouache combined look. The Soft and Snappy Filbert brushes are more opaque and will cover linework with a full pass. The Quickly Fading brush is good for painting around edges of a sketch without fully covering it.

More familiar than most digital brushes. The filbert shapes, the opaque coverage, the way the Wet Edges brush behaves at stroke borders, and the bristle marks in the Light Rake and Old Brush brushes all translate recognizable painting behaviors into Procreate. The biggest adjustment is that digital gouache doesn't dry between layers — you can blend indefinitely, which is freeing but different from the time pressure of real paint. The brush behavior itself will feel like a natural extension of what you already know.