A brush to a digital painter is like a sword to a warrior. The truth is, the quality of the brushes you use can make or break the final outcome of your piece. Whether your digital painting style mimics realistic techniques, or is more stylized, finding the perfect match is no easy feat.

That’s why it’s so important to take your time testing out high-caliber brush sets that help streamline your workflow to ensure they deliver on efficiency, adaptability, and control.

To give you a helping hand, here are a few stellar brush sets that will take your digital painting skills to the next level:

Blocking Brushes

While many brushes you’ll come across focus on creating flawless finishes, this custom-blocking brush pack is perfect for quick studies, as well as the very first step of any painted artwork—establishing the basic composition of the final piece. In addition, this versatile set doubles as mixer brushes.

The pack contains:

• 8 brushes (.abr)

Roxy's Essential Painting Brushes for CorelPainter

If you’re searching for precision and texturing in your brushes, this free brush set was designed specifically for high-quality digital painting in Corel Painter. As the artist has updated this pack every year, it works with multiple versions of the software, making it one that you can continually use and improve alongside.

The set is also accompanied by a coupon for $100 off the purchase of a full license for Corel Painter 2023.

It includes:

• Brush set for Corel Painter 2023
• Brush set for Corel Painter 2022
• Brush set for Corel Painter 2021

Deiv's Photoshop Painting Brushes

For those searching for a comprehensive brush set that will fuel your various digital painting endeavors, this bundle has you covered. From digital painting to illustrations, this set will help you attain multiple styles seamlessly. It includes brushes from multiple well-known digital artists such as Mathias Verhaselt, Nebezial, Dan Luvisi, and more.

Functions of this brush pack include:

• Normal painting
• Texturing skin, scales, hair, etc.
• Texturing rocks and foliage
• Creating polygonal shapes
• Smudging

Paint Brushes for Procreate

This bundle is a large collection of digital dry paint brushes to help you achieve varied textures in Procreate with precision and control. Its balanced pressure sensitivity feature means no two strokes are the same, even with a single brush, allowing you to imitate the real thing.

With this purchase, you will receive:

• 54 dry paint brushes for Procreate
• PDF cheatsheet to help you navigate the differences between the brushes
• Customer support

Oil Brushes for Procreate

If you hope to achieve a realistic oil-painted look for your digital art masterpieces, this brush pack will do just that! This is a great everyday and versatile set of oil brushes for digital paintings and illustrations in Procreate that digitally reproduces the depth and rich textures of real oil paint.

The materials used vary from brush to brush, including smoother textures, rough linen canvas, and impasto to attain an organic set of finishes. Even if digital oil painting doesn’t appeal to you, this set is great for pulling off a distinctive style of texturing.

The brush set contains:

• 52 oil paint brushes
• JPEG cheatsheet showing each brush stroke

Garden Brushes for Speedpainting

This Tsvetka-Melanchthon collaboration brings you a fantastic set of almost three dozen unique brushes to help you draw foliage with ease and efficiency.

The bundle also contains a demo by Tsvetka to illustrate the best techniques and methods that accompany the brushes, specifically when they’re used for speed painting. The brush set can be used both for Procreate and Photoshop.

This pack includes:

• 34 brushes for Photoshop (.abr)
• 34 brushes for Procreate (.abr)
• 1-hour high-resolution time-lapse video without commentary
• JPEG showing the step-by-step process
• PSD of artwork

Traditional Art Brush Set

For those who appreciate the roughness of physical art, with its unpredictable finishes and layers of textures, this set of brushes will be a perfect fit. This brush pack for Photoshop emulates real-life traditional art brushes, helping you achieve paintings and illustrations whose textures have more depth and courseness.

With this bundle, you’ll receive:

• 16 brushes for Photoshop (.abr)
• High-resolution time-lapse video without commentary
• High-resolution real-time video without commentary
• JPEG work-in-progress
• JPEG of artwork

Count on Cubebrush to help you find all the finest digital brushes in the industry!