For digital animators and illustrators with an enthusiasm for action, sci-fi, or fantasy genres, you have no doubt attempted a fight scene and taken a few low blows yourself.  Wounds and injuries are classically difficult to illustrate while balancing the elements of realism, graphic content, and emotive effect simultaneously. To support you with this challenge, today’s blog presents you with five useful Procreate blood brush resources that can help your characters kick ass and take names with gory spatters and headshots you can feel proud of!

Procreate Skin Brushes

This first asset is essential for the character designers among us. This niche bundle contains 29 brushes tailored specially to help you recreate skin of all types, from freckled and smooth to wounded, rotten, zombie skin. The different finishes in this pack can be combined in a variety of ways to produce original designs with enough realism to shock and captivate your audience. 

This set contains:

• 29 procreate skin brushes

Procreate Blood Brush Set

This next set of 30 specialized brushes guarantees to add realistic or 2D blood stains, drips, and wounds to your digital masterpieces. Whether you’re a horror fanatic, animator, comic book creator, or digital illustrator, this comprehensive Procreate blood brush pack contains all you could want to bring your most gruesome, eerie, and frightening concepts to life. 

This pack contains:

• 12 realistic blood brushes for Procreate
• 19 2D blood brushes for Procreate

Painting Essentials Digital Art Brushes

Sometimes, to find our perfect tools, artists need to think outside the box. That being said, this next accumulation of over 100 stunning handcrafted brushes contains a broad range of tools that can be utilized for all kinds of skin-oriented creations. 

Although not a blood-specific brush pack, this creative choice offers a wide range of mediums and applications, as well as splatter, drip, and bristle effect textures that would be ideal for creating wounds and blood smatterings. Assembled from the uploaded images of real media, these brushes deliver the unique texture and interest of physical rendering with all of the uniformity and precision of digital art. 

This collection consists of:

• 100 essential digital art brushes for Procreate

Splash and Drip Brush Bundle

This playful collection of 50 high-resolution splash brushes would be an incredible resource for digital illustrators and concept artists interested in creating stylized characters for their fantasy or sci-fi art, comic book fight scenes, and even gamer fan art. An array of brush textures, such as splatter, splash, blot, and drip-drop effects are available in this set. 

And while they’re intended for benign drips and drizzles… they’re also ideal for depicting every bloody gush and spray your demented imagination can dream up! Decide from a range of 50 exclusive effects, and layer them on top of each other for a truly original and chilling showpiece.

The pack includes:

• 50 splash brushes for Procreate

Expressive Watercolor Effect Brushes

This final expressive brush selection encompasses an assortment of watercolor brushes designed to demonstrate the numerous finishes of watercolors on canvas. Inspired by water bleeds, splatters, and salty textures producing a vanishing, speckled effect, this bundle comprises 50 distinct brushes that replicate the organic textures of watercolor paint. 

From dripping and particle brushes to water flicks and stains, the layered amalgamations and compositions you can generate are never-ending when creating characters for your latest projects. Ideal for recreating the effect of torn skin, coagulated versus fresh blood, as well as soft transitions between your elements, these skillful brushes bleed, blend, wash, and splash like classic watercolors and allow for all the playful experimentation of physical paint without the time costly mistakes.

With this bundle, you’ll receive:

• 50 watercolor texture brushes for Procreate

Get Terrific Results with Cubebrush

If you feel a little overwhelmed by the notion of venturing into software brushes for the first time, or are a seasoned user just wishing to evolve your skill set, you’re in good company! The Procreate blood brush bundles will give you the (razor-sharp) edge you need to keep your characters slicing and dicing their way to gory glory. 

Of course, experimenting with new tools and techniques often takes a bit of reassurance and a lot of guidance, which is why at Cubebrush we have a myriad of awe-inspiring resources to get you from where you are to where you want to be, and today's recommendations are just the beginning! Discover the wound-erful world of Cubebrush today, and don’t stop pursuing your dreams.