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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. No drying time. No mess. 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 Are These Gouache Brushes Good For?

Illustrators who want a matte, painterly look in Procreate without the mess or drying time. 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: Apple Pencil recommended; Apple Pencil Pro required for barrel roll and for the two Dual Tone brushes
File format: .brushset, imports directly into Procreate
Delivery: instant download

How to Install

Download the .brushset file on your iPad
Tap it, and Procreate opens and imports it automatically
Find the new set at the top of your Brushes panel

Licensing

Three options at checkout: Personal, Commercial, and Extended. Personal covers 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 removes the unit cap, for large production runs, fabric collections, or licensing your art to manufacturers. Started with Personal? You can upgrade anytime by paying the difference. Full terms are in the FAQ.

Questions People Ask

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

They paint, but they won't shift color, because the shift is driven by stylus angle. The rest of the set works with any Apple Pencil.

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.

Can I use these brushes in work I sell?

Yes, with the Commercial or Extended license, chosen at checkout. Personal covers your own projects and portfolio.

Do I need an Apple Pencil Pro?

No. Every brush works with any Apple Pencil. Apple Pencil Pro adds barrel roll on the sets that support it.

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.

Digital product. Instant download, nothing ships. All sales are final, but if a file won't open or a brush won't import, email me and I'll make it right.

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.

Handmade digital assets by Esther Nariyoshi

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.