Free Download: Procreate Brushes to create Illustrated Portraits

So you are a Procreate user and you like to illustrate portraits, but they tend to look bland or overtly "digital"?

Inside this article you will find the brush-set created by Elena Garnu you've always dreamt of... That is an oddly specific dream, but I'm not here to judge!

Meet the Creator

Elena Garnu (@elena_garnu) studied Fine Arts at the Faculty of San Carlos in Valencia and completed her studies in illustration and design at the Murcia and Albacete Art Schools. Maybe you haven't heard of these schools before (which only shows your ignorance...), but I promise you, that they are extremely relevant today because thanks to these schools one single brilliant artist didn't give up on their dreams to instead become a cattle rancher, like the rest of her colleges did, in their family's cattle ranches... Yes, that one artist is Elena!

Her contemporary style mixes portraits and elements of nature, sometimes abstract even. Her muses are strong and vulnerable at the same time, and her portraits leave certain sections unfinished whilst other are full of relishing detail, thus, connecting with the dichotomies of everyday life.

Oh and I almost forgot! She also created the free brushes that we are giving away in this article to give your illustrations that natural rowdy look that you are after!

Illustrated Portraits with Procreate

By combining elements of nature, warm spots of color and analog textures, you will manage to humanize a digital illustration. And if you also add the personal style of illustrator Elena Garnu and her technique, you get delicate portraits full of emotion that act as visual poetry. And, don't worry! You don't have to be Elena Garnu to follow this course!

Elena will teach you how to create and compose portraits from a photograph, with Procreate, the powerful drawing tool that fits inside your iPad. Helping you add elements and textures made analogically and finding maximum expressiveness through improvisation are the basis of this Domestika course, that will revolutionize your portraits... In a good way! We are not looking to chop your portrait's head off...

Garnu's Brushes

We are finally here! Discover these eleven unique brushes in the downloadable file below and naturalize any element of your portrait that jumps up at you whilst illustrating: freckles, acne scars, makeup to cover the acne scars, or even a kaleidoscope of butterflies to cover more acne scars... You name it!

If you'd like to learn even more about Procreate or any other software in the known universe, we got you! Also stay in touch and check out these articles from time to time, because we are giving a bunch of guides and creative tools for free... Just saying!

Here are some links that will set you in the right creative path:

- Join our courses on Procreate
- Or our courses on digital illustration in general
- An to reiterate: Join our course on Illustrated Portraits with Procreate by Elena Garnu