Painting Tools and the Brush Library – Using and Organizing Brushes

Brushes form an essential part of any digital painting application. As the name suggests, they allow you to draw and paint in a digital sense. The term brush when used in the context of digital art has a wider scope of meaning than when used for traditional art. The term often refer to all the tools that can possibly be used for drawing, including but not limited to sketching, inking, coloring, and even erasing. All of these actions have types of brushes dedicated to them.

This chapter will take you through the basics of working with them. We will cover how brushes are organized in Procreate and how digital brushes work.

We’re going to cover the following broad topics in this chapter:

• Paint, Smudge, and Erase Tools
• The Brush Library
• The Basics of Brush Studio

By the end of the chapter, you will have a working understanding of how digital brushes work on Procreate, how to...