Affinity Brushes have become an essential tool for digital artists, offering unparalleled versatility and precision. Whether you’re creating intricate concept art or vibrant illustrations, Affinity Brushes provide a wide range of textures, strokes, and effects that cater to every artistic need. Their seamless integration with Affinity Photo and Designer makes them a go-to choice for professionals and hobbyists alike.
Affinity Brushes are celebrated for their ability to mimic traditional art tools while offering the flexibility of digital editing. Unlike Photoshop Brushes or Illustrator Brushes, Affinity Brushes are optimized for Affinity’s software, ensuring smooth performance and realistic results. Their popularity stems from their affordability, high quality, and the growing community of artists who share custom brush packs. For those transitioning from Procreate Brushes, Affinity Brushes offer a similar level of creativity but with the added power of desktop software.
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Best Affinity Brushes for Digital Illustrations & Concept Art
One of the standout features of Affinity Brushes is their adaptability. Whether you’re painting landscapes, designing characters, or adding fine details, these brushes can be customized to suit your style. Artists often compare them to Photoshop Brushes, noting that Affinity Brushes provide a more streamlined experience without compromising on quality. Similarly, those accustomed to Illustrator Brushes appreciate the vector-friendly options available in Affinity Designer.
For concept artists, Affinity Brushes are a game-changer. They allow for quick sketching, detailed rendering, and seamless blending, making them ideal for creating immersive worlds and dynamic characters. The ability to switch between raster and vector brushes within the same software is a unique advantage over Procreate Brushes, which are limited to raster-based workflows. This flexibility ensures that Affinity Brushes can handle everything from rough drafts to final touches.
NOTE:Â These brushes are only compatible with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. These are raster brushes which work in Pixel Persona on Affinity Designer.
Outline Pack Outline Brushes
This Brush pack is completely focused on outline brushes and gives you a variety of brushes and styles to choose from. It contains outline brushes for Procreate and Affinity Designer.
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Pencil Affinity Designer Brushes
The time has come to release another collection of digital graphite pencils you’ll never want to give up using! Pixel and vector 50 Affinity Designer brushes were prepared to tame the new ideas from the brightest minds. Don’t stay aside, come and experience the feeling of absolute creative freedom.
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Misterio Shader Affinity Brushes
The Misterio brush set, with its inherent mystery, transforms the art creation process into a captivating journey. Each brush seems to tell a story — an enigma that gradually unveils itself with every stroke you make.
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Hand Drawn Brushes for Affinity
The pack you’re looking at right now contains 20 vector and pixel brushes — two essential Affinity formats. Besides, don’t forget that all of them are accompanied by llama magic! You can draw these jolly fellas or any other illustrations for your projects, using a sponge, pastel, marker or noise brush.
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Master Watercolor Brushes
The current and latest version of the brush set has been 4 years in development as I painted with the original set, made modifications as I worked, and sampled new textures and media.
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Smoke and Fire Reloaded
With a total of 250 Smoke and Fire Brushes and Overlays you will get a very flexible bundle that can be applied to many designs. Including Layer Styles for both Photoshop and Affinity, not only the overlays but as well the brushes can be used to create the fire effects. Links to tutorials showing an easy way to achieve this effect are provided.
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Fade Shade Affinity Brushes
Dear Creatives, meet you new favourite brushes! Have you got Affinity Designer recently and you’d like to add a fantastic resource to it? Think no more! This brush set has been sampled out of real life textures and have been digitally manipulated to work as seamless patterns. They were made to add some realism and exotic touches to your illustrations and lettering artworks.
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Retro Cartoon Mascot Toolkit
A collection of time-saving stamp brushes and Procreate ink brushes for drawing retro style cartoon characters & mascots.
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Mosaic Maker Affinity Brushes
After a trip to Sicily, where I saw some stunning ancient Roman mosaics, it occurred to me that there was no tool which allowed Affinity Designer users to draw their own mosaic designs. On my return I set about making this complete mosaic tile tool kit – it contains everything you need to create your own realistic looking fauxsaics.
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Grid Builder Layout Composer
Something that I struggle with and I know you guys do too, is laying out a great composition within your hand lettering work. You have the quote or words you want to use, you know the style, but you just get stuck with how to lay it out, so it doesn’t look like letters just thrown onto a page.
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Procreate Skull Tattoo Brushes
Procreate brushes are essential tools that allow artists to create stunning digital artwork with a wide range of textures and effects. With hundreds of built-in brushes and the ability to customize or import new ones, Procreate offers endless creative possibilities. From realistic pencils, inks, and watercolors to textured, airbrush, and calligraphy brushes, each tool mimics traditional media with impressive accuracy. The Brush Studio feature enables artists to tweak settings like opacity, shape, and pressure sensitivity, ensuring a personalized drawing experience. Whether for sketching, painting, or lettering, Procreate brushes enhance creativity and provide a seamless, professional-quality workflow.
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Ultimate Brush Toolbox Ink Brushes
This incredibly extensive set of ink brushes is part of The Ultimate Brush Toolbox, which was 5 months in the making. It was very important to me to build the set in a way that was authentic and true to the source material. I wanted these brushes to be made from real ink samples of various brush and pen types so that they would look and act like real materials. It was also important to me that these brushes be tested and approved by professional artists before release.
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The Complete Affinity Blueprint Kit
The Artifex Forge is proud to present this all-inclusive pack, which contains everything you need to create your own vector blueprint designs – patterns, graphic styles, brushes, textures and more! And, at only $20, this represents amazing value.
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Ultimate Ink Lettering Brush Toolbox
Infuse your lettering with the classic elegance of hand-drawn ink artistry, without the clutter of countless pens and markers. Welcome to the Ultimate Lettering Brush Toolbox – Ink pack, which unlocks a world of versatile ink tools and design stamps, elevating your lettering creations to new heights.
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Ultimate Brush Toolbox Charcoal
This incredibly extensive set of charcoal brushes is part of The Ultimate Brush Toolbox, which was 5 months in the making. It was very important to me to build the set in a way that was authentic and true to the source material. I wanted these brushes to be made from real charcoal samples so that they would look and act like real charcoal. It was also important to me that these brushes be tested and approved by professional artists before release. Over the course of development, I enlisted the help of several artists and designers spanning a range of specialties.
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Ultimate Brush Toolbox Acrylic
It was very important to me to build the set in a way that was authentic and true to the source material. I wanted these brushes to be made from real acrylic paint samples so that they would look and act like real paint. It was also important to me that these brushes be tested and approved by professional artists before release.
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Photoshop Butterfly Stamp ClipStudio
Set of 100 hand drawn Butterfly PHOTOSHOP stamp brushes! These are perfect for adding to your tattoo, cartoon, anime, kawaii, manga, mix and match or other illustration projects. You can use these in any color or opacity, and they can be resized to best fit your art.
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Gagatka’s Texturiam Affinity Brushes
As a professional illustrator in the animation industry, I rely on brushes in my daily work that not only facilitate but also expedite projects. Texturiam assists in swiftly applying seamless texture to illustrations, whether they’re vector-based or on bitmaps, quickly stylizing without the need to search the internet
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The Invincible Inker for Affinity
This pack contains 22 Affinity brushes painstakingly made from real ink, pens and brushes to give your work that authentic, hand-inked feel.
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25 Graphite Affinity Brushes
This Affinity Designer Brush Set will help you create pieces that look and feel like traditional media with the wonders of the digital era.
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Impressionism Brushes For Affinity
This brush pack is inspired by 19th century art movement impressionism and it’s branch pointillism, which are characterized by usage of distinct small dots, visible brush strokes and often contrasting colors. Some of the famous artists of this style includes Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt.
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Lo-Fi Subtle Grain Brushes Affinity
If you’re an illustrator and want to bring the magic of warm analog textures and noise to your work, this is going to be the best thing you see today.
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Stipple Shading Brushes for Affinity
Stipple shading is a classic method for adding textured shading to a pen and ink illustration. It looks incredible, but takes time, patience and a steady hand. Some of us simply don’t have those things, but it doesn’t mean your illustrations have to be stippless.
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Dead Subtle Brushes for Affinity
Part of our Signature Collection, The Dead Subtle Brush Set was developed in collaboration with renowned illustrator and designer Milan Chagoury (a.k.a. @Staybold) and designed to creep seamlessly into his workflow as the perfect compliment to his signature style or yours.
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Gouache Zen Affinity Brushes
Open your supplies drawer, pick a few tubes of gouache, and sense the temptation to do some meditative sketching or drown in classic painting techniques. Or go digital straight away with a set of 12 digital brushes.
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Spray Paint Brushes
Create realistic-looking digital graffiti in Adobe Illustrator with our spray paint brushes. This collection of spray can strokes was created by sampling real aerosol can marks and splatter and features a huge range of graffiti Illustrator brush strokes – perfect for creating street art designs. Up your Illustrator spray paint game with the included paint drip brush set and spray splatter brushes – for those all-important final authentic details.
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Another reason artists love Affinity Brushes is their affordability. Unlike Photoshop Brushes, which often require additional purchases or subscriptions, Affinity Brushes come at a one-time cost with frequent free updates. This makes them accessible to beginners and professionals alike. Additionally, the Affinity community regularly shares free and premium brush packs, expanding the creative possibilities even further.
In conclusion, Affinity Brushes have carved a niche in the digital art world by combining affordability, versatility, and performance. Whether you’re a fan of Photoshop Brushes, Illustrator Brushes, or Procreate Brushes, Affinity Brushes offer a compelling alternative that caters to a wide range of artistic needs. Their ability to bridge the gap between traditional and digital art makes them an indispensable tool for anyone serious about digital illustrations and concept art.
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