Realistic Watercolor in Procreate with AquaReal 2 Brushes

Aug 26

Brushes

The brushes and paper texture for this project are from the AquaReal 2 set by Lisa Glanz. This is a beautiful, richly-textured set of watercolor brushes. Check them out on Lisa’s site:

AquaReal 2 Brushes

Color palette

Snag the color palette for this project here:

free color palette

Sketch File and reference

You can download the transparent sketch file and the final reference image to follow along with this step-by-step tutorial here!

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