Manga & Anime Brushes

Hey to the future legends of Lezhin, Webtoon, and Crunchyroll! We've got you like everything to become a pro manga artist and to publish your first graphic novel. No bragging: as passionate fans of manga and anime ourselves, we've crafted comprehensive brush collections tailored to all your creative needs, from manhwa to digital comics and fan art.

Pastel Dreams Brushes

We deeply admire the profound work of concept artists, illustrators, game designers, and creative enthusiasts, so with Pastel Dreams, we aimed to create the ultimate toolbox to meet their needs down to the last stroke.

Our inspiration came from the aesthetics of open world games and animated films, which open up the most magnificent landscapes. We weren't sure if those scenes were actually drawn with pastels or any other medium, but we loved the idea of bringing chalky softness to modern, tech-driven projects. 

As a result, Pastel Dreams shines with versatility: concept art, game art & design, character design, backgrounds — not to mention personal projects and commercial uses like prints or apparel design. And while the brushes lend themselves to fantasy themes, their possibilities extend far beyond. You can use them to create portraits, landscapes, or anything else, from anime to realism and abstract art.

  • Pastel brushes mimic the look and feel of traditional pastels, capturing their soft, chalky texture and blending capabilities. In the Pastel Dreams collection, each brush replicates different pastel effects, from fine lines to rich, textured strokes, perfect for bringing a natural, hand-drawn quality to digital art.

  • They’re ideal for adding texture and depth to illustrations, creating dreamy landscapes, soft character designs, and detailed backgrounds. With their ability to layer and blend, pastel brushes are also perfect for concept art, game art, and any piece where you want a soft, natural aesthetic.

  • Drawing with pastels offers soft textures, easy blending, and the ability to create both bold and delicate marks. The Pastel Dreams brushes emulate these qualities digitally, allowing for smooth transitions, layered colors, and varied opacity. You can build intensity with each stroke or keep it light and airy, just as you would with real pastels.

  • You’ll need a drawing tablet or a device that supports stylus input, as well as digital art software like Procreate, Photoshop, etc. Plus, a variety of brushes and a pressure-sensitive stylus for nuanced control over brush textures. 

Manga and Anime Brushes. Starter Pack.

The advanced brush collection will cover every step of manga creation: inking, shading, patterns, and speech bubbles. It includes 6 brushes, repeating the most popular drawing supplies used for manga: liner, inker, brush pen, g-pen, graphite pencil, and marker. Atop that, we've featured 6 screentone brushes as an alternative to the traditional sheets of transparent film. They will go as backgrounds, shades, textures, and patterns in the black-and-white and colored novels. 

Take inspiration from legendary mangakas and create a masterpiece on par with Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, or One Piece. With your characters and plot fully pictured, all that remains is the creative tools to bring them into reality.

  • Manga brushes are used to create manga-style artwork. Manga, a popular form of comic book or graphic novel originating from Japan, has a distinct artistic style, and these brushes are tailored to emulate that specific look in digital art software.

  • Actually, manga and anime brushes are tailored for different aspects of Japanese art. Manga brushes typically include a range of inking tools with different line weights for creating clean, precise lines and screen tones for shading and texture. Anime brushes are geared more towards color work and animation. These brushes might include a variety of painting and coloring tools.

    However, manga and anime share many skills and techniques, so artists might adapt the tools to their needs accordingly.

  • Liner and inker brushes are used primarily in illustration, comic book art, and graphic novels, including manga and anime.

    Liner brushes, or liners, often have a thin, sharp tip, allowing for detailed line work. This is why they're commonly used to lay down the initial structure of their artwork like character outlines, architectural details, or any part of a scene where accuracy and detail are crucial.

    Inker brushes, or inkers, go over pencil sketches, providing the clean, bold lines typical of manga/anime illustration. They are also used to add shading and textural details.

  • Screen-tone brushes replicate the effect of traditional screen tones, which are sheets of film with patterns of dots, lines, or other textures used in comic art to create shading, depth, and texture without the use of color. Screen tones are a traditional tool employed by mangakas, partly identical to halftone brushes available in most design apps.

Manga Screentone Brushes

No manga without screentones! The collection places the hallmark of manga art and Japanese print media in the limelight. No old-school adhesive film, no cutouts, just the professional halftone line and pattern brushes.

This collection has everything you need: 39 halftone pattern brushes and 21 line screentone pattern brushes, all seamless and compatible with the most popular drawing apps. Whether you’re going for that classic black-and-white manga look or adding depth to colorful manhwa and webtoons, you’re set.

The brushes suit covering large areas, texturing elements, and exploring different manga genres, from action-packed shōnen to heartfelt shōjo. Even more: they are a timesaver for digital artists, allowing them to release weekly updates of their online comics, digital manga/manhwa, and webtoons.

  • Screentones are used to apply textures and shades to illustrations, primarily in black-and-white comics. They consist of patterns of dots, lines, or other shapes that vary in density and size.

  • Screentones can convey depth, volume, and various textures, such as the smoothness of skin, the roughness of fabric, or the darkness of shadows, so the artist doesn't have to perform detailed line work or cross-hatch.

  • Screentone brushes are a precise digital analog of traditional screentones, which come in sheets of dot patterns or textures. They are compatible with most design software, like Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, etc., offering a striking array of patterns and enabling artists to achieve a traditional manga look with a stroke of stylus, Apple Pencil or mouse.

  • Although their primary use is black-and-white comics, the screentones can be used as an additional element to stylize any other artwork, from book characters to technical illustrations, fanart, and concept art.

Manga Creator Brushes

Storyboarding is probably the most challenging yet pivotal aspect of manga storytelling. It covers meticulous planning, layout design, and the integration of various visual/verbal elements. If you haven't taken up the art yet, check the previous brush packs, which offer plenty of essentials, including liners, inkers, halftones, and graphite pencils. 

For those ready to onboard on the narrative comes this pro toolbox. It covers speech bubbles and panel frames for the most common page layouts in manga, manhwa, comics, and webtoons.

A must-have collection of essential extras for any manga artist. Inside, you’ll find 50 outline and filled bubbles, ideal for speech, thoughts, shouts, sound effects, and author’s comments. Plus, 30 frames to bring your panels to life.

  • Bubbles are graphical elements that contain text representing the characters' speech, thoughts, or other information within the comic. Along with speech bubbles, there're also thought bubbles, scream bubbles, sound effect bubbles, and narration boxes.

  • While there isn't a one-size-fits-all font for all manga, several styles are commonly used due to their clarity and aesthetic compatibility with manga art. It's CC Meanwhile, Wild Words, Anime Ace, CC Astro City, Manga Temple, Digital Strip, and BD Cartoon Shout.

  • Storyboarding, also known as "layout planning" or "page planning," is a pre-drawing process that manga artists use to organize the flow of their story on the pages of their manga. This stage is about deciding how the story unfolds visually, panel by panel, on each page, ensuring that the narrative is coherent, engaging, and easy to follow.

  • Mangakas use a pen or a digital drawing tool to outline the speech bubble. They can leave it white or fill it with a subtle screentone texture.

Manga & Anime Complete Brushes Bundle

Whether you're into drawing comics or webtoons, whether you're seasoned or just completed an Anime Art Academy course — or even if fan art is more your thing — this manga bundle has you covered.

The bundle includes all the tools from our manga series. It features brushes for drawing characters, environments, creating textures and volume, and working with lighting. Additionally, the bundle includes sets of screentones, speech bubbles, and storyboard templates. We created and selected them to feature the most popular and in-demand options. 

We could say that this bundle is all you need to create both color and black-and-white manga or manhwa. And the result will be intricate and professional, with no hint of an amateur approach.

  • Bubbles are graphical elements that contain text representing the characters' speech, thoughts, or other information within the comic. Along with speech bubbles, there're also thought bubbles, scream bubbles, sound effect bubbles, and narration boxes.

  • While there isn't a one-size-fits-all font for all manga, several styles are commonly used due to their clarity and aesthetic compatibility with manga art. It's CC Meanwhile, Wild Words, Anime Ace, CC Astro City, Manga Temple, Digital Strip, and BD Cartoon Shout.

  • Storyboarding, also known as "layout planning" or "page planning," is a pre-drawing process that manga artists use to organize the flow of their story on the pages of their manga. This stage is about deciding how the story unfolds visually, panel by panel, on each page, ensuring that the narrative is coherent, engaging, and easy to follow.

  • Mangakas use a pen or a digital drawing tool to outline the speech bubble. They can leave it white or fill it with a subtle screentone texture.