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Timeless Engraving Multi-App Brushes
Engraving is a dish best served unhurried. Say, with patience turned up to eleven. So here we are, picked up the engraving tradition (still pretty defeated by the process, btw) and created a complete engraving toolkit that’s way easier to work with for the same look. Strict, architectural, wild, stormy — you are the artist, so you decide.
The backbone of the set is the line system: 11 engraving line brushes expanded into 44 variants. Each round brush comes in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal patterns, forming 4 pattern directions per brush. They perform tight, disciplined lines for banknote-style hatching and rougher cuts for worn paper, aged illustrations, and areas where the hand is meant to show. Instead of fighting with settings, building tone becomes a game of choosing direction and texture.
On top of that, 5 engraving wave brushes (20 variants) carry the weight of seas, clouds, fabric folds, and smoke — in the spirit of classic etching. The 16 engraving brushes deliver broader strokes for foliage, stone, skies, and backgrounds. The 4 engraving liner brushes handle crisp contours, filigree details, and last-minute corrections (if the last-minute idea ever works for engraving).
Underneath the romance, the set is tuned for practical work: consistent pressure curves, predictable build-up, and patterns that tile cleanly in dense cross-hatching. It works for editorial illustration, packaging that nods to vintage securities, label design, fantasy maps, tarot decks, concept art, or for filling a digital sketchbook with waves, armor, and petals.
Note: The set also includes an installation file duplicating all brush patterns as Stamp Engraving Brushes (68 Engraving Stamp Brushes).
Sketch Brushes FAQ
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They mimic traditional engraving and etching: tight lines, cross-hatching, waves, and fine cuts. Instead of carving copper plates, you draw on a tablet — but the result still looks like banknotes, atlases, or old book illustrations.
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Line brushes are the main hatching system: straight, directional strokes for tone and shading. Wave brushes handle seas, clouds, fabric folds, and smoke. Engraving brushes allow broader, more organic strokes for foliage, stone, skies, and general texture. Liner brushes are for contours, filigree details, and small corrections.
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No. They’re made to cheat the process, in a good way. If you’re comfortable with drawing or inking, the brushes simply add the engraving logic: density, direction, and pattern do most of the heavy lifting.
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The set is prepared in standard brush formats, so you can use it in major illustration apps like Photoshop, Procreate, Affinity, Clip Studio Paint, and similar software that supports custom brushes. Just install the right file for your app.
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Yes. The brushes are tuned for high-resolution artwork and dense cross-hatching, so they're crisp on posters, book interiors, packaging, and editorial spreads.
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A tablet is strongly recommended. The brushes respond to pressure and direction, so you get line weight, softness, and build-up that a mouse simply can’t provide.
File size: 2.35 GB
4 Engraving Liner Brushes
11 Engraving Line Brushes (x4 options)
5 Engraving Wave Brushes (x4 options)
16 Engraving Brushes
Vector Format (Adobe Illustrator)
ZIP package, Dropbox download
