Krita Brushes for Illustrators and Concept Artists

End of life: After careful consideration, I decided to make these brushes available for free to everyone.

Please note that I will not provide support or updates. The brushes and learning material are provided as-is, with the hope that they might be useful to you. Happy painting!

The brushkit

This brushkit comes with:

• Over 100 professional-grade presets
• Dedicated tutorials - our learning material will help you get the most out of your favorite drawing program 🙂

I created these presets together with Zhillustrator (landscape painter) and Joshua Grier (concept artist).

How we design our brushes

The brushes follow a few fundamental concepts. Our goal is to help you to work fast, and to allow you to focus on your art. It is a bloat-free pack, filled with efficient drawing tools.

I favor versatile presets and avoid brush repetition, so you don’t have to keep switching between them to achieve a variety of effects.

The set comes with all sorts of tools, from wet to dry effects. Need a softer blending effect? Use the I and O keys to tweak your opacity and make the blending brushes weaker.

We also go back and improve older presets when we have the opportunity. All three of us work with the brushes to ensure they're well-tested.

Update 16

• 26 new brushes designed by the professional landscape painter Zhillustrator and concept artist Joshua Grier
• Complete redesign of the thumbnails, now split into 14 color-coded categories
• Converted all the brushes to Krita 4
• The bundle now works as a standalone package: it doesn't rely on Krita's default resources anymore

Update 15

• 4 new standard presets: chalk, rock and vegetation brushes
• 2 new charcoal presets (premium)
• 2 pages PDF to get started with the brushes

Update 14

• 4 new vegetation presets for grass strands, bushes, grass patches and leaves
• Video demo of each preset, to learn how to use them in under 5 minutes

Update 13

• Complete redesign of the brush thumbnails. All 85 brushes now have a new, clearer picture that highlights their stroke and still reads on small screens. It took a lot of work, but now it's done, the set is ready to welcome new presets.
• Pixel art presets are now in a separate bundle.