One of the challenges digital artists face is creating smooth transitions between colors and tones. Without the use of water to blend paints, fingers to smudge pastels and charcoal, or numerous other physical methods and materials, amateur digital artists find that they produce harsh lines and textures resulting in an unrealistic effect. 

Blur brushes are versatile software tools that can help to reduce these inaccuracies and create an overall softer and more natural finish to your work. That’s why for today’s blog we’ll be sharing six helpful blur brush tool sets to enhance your creative experience and expression. 

Procreate Blur Brush Set

Included in this first asset is a collection of seven essential blur brushes curated especially to form a set of foundational tools for painting, sketching, and more. From powder to clean and messy blur brush effects, this collection of artist favorites can help to produce realism and depth.  You’ll have no trouble creating points of soft focus on the canvas with this blur brush pack, making them ideal instruments for backgrounds, and atmospheric effects.  

This set includes:

• 7 Procreate essential blur brushes

Professional Smudging Brushes

This next bundle of four premium smudging brushes is sure to add points of interest to your digital masterpieces. They’re the perfect starting place to cover all your digital blending and smudging needs. Whether you like to paint landscapes, portraits, still lives, or abstracts, this small and comprehensive brush pack holds everything you’re looking for to imbue your artwork with emotive accents that bring your concepts to life. 

This pack contains:

• 4 premium Procreate smudge brushes

Procreate Smudge and Blur Tools

With this amazingly diverse brush pack, you can dabble between mediums such as pencil, charcoal, watercolor paint, and more to create some stunning impressions on your digital canvas. Avoiding harsh lines and transitions can be a struggle when blending colors together,  but these smudge brushes help to soften edges and create a smooth gradient between tones that can be adjusted in opacity to add an extreme or minimal blur effect. Create a seamless color palette and artistic precision throughout your composition with this stylish set.  

This collection consists of:

• 18 smudge brushes for Procreate

Blending Portrait Brush Bundle

This carefully composed combination of stunning brushes gives you the ideal tools to enhance your portraits by using expert blending and smudging software to generate flawless skin and organic hair texture. Rendering complex finishes such as hair and fabric can often be time-consuming to yield satisfying results, but with the help of this functional blur brush bundle, you can blur overly textured areas and smooth out unnatural details to create a truly authentic appearance.  

The pack includes:

• 16 portrait blending brushes for Procreate

Custom Procreate Blender Brushes

This next expressive brush assortment contains nine valuable instruments including soft, smear, standard, and grainy brushes to help you accomplish your desired artistic results. Simulating lighting effects such as glows, highlights, and soft shadows can often pose a challenge for digital artists. However, blurring tools such as these can produce soft, standard, blotchy, and ragged finishes to replicate different lighting diffusions and enhance the realism of your scene, character, or arrangement. 

With this bundle, you’ll receive:

• 9 blending brushes for Procreate

Smudgy Photoshop Brushes

This final asset is essential for the abstract digital designers among us. This focused blur brush collection consists of 12 smudging tools tailored specifically toward developing rough and experimental layers on the digital canvas. 

Merging different layers and elements in a composition can frequently result in visible seams or awkward transitions, but with the help of this blur brush pack, the components of your artwork can have more of an integrated feel, while the juxtaposition between rough and smooth elements can create points of interest and texture. The multiple finishes in this bundle can be integrated in a range of formations to produce unique designs that inspire and mesmerise your audience. 

This kit comprises:

• 12 Photoshop smudging brushes

Achieve Blur-tiful Results with Cubebrush. 

Whether your preference is portraits, landscapes, or abstract art, getting caught up in the details of your craft doesn’t have to be a hassle. Put the joy back into creating with Cubebrush’s powerful blending and smudging tools that make overcoming texture rendering, detail management, realism, and lighting challenges a blur-eeze! 

If you still have a smudgeon of doubt, explore Cubebrush’s product listings for yourself to discover, your next great blur brush, endless inspiration, and plenty of valuable resources!