Litz Procreate brush set for sketch, lineart, shading, and hair texture in black and white manga style

If you like loose sketch style, slightly rough pencil strokes, pens with a natural tremor, black hair with texture and manga-style gray shading, this Litz Procreate brush set is a very worthwhile pick. The brush set doesn't try to make every stroke overly smooth, but instead preserves the hand-drawn feel, making it great for portraits, male characters, black-and-white drawings, and quick sketches for social media.

Who is this Litz Procreate brush set for?

This set is suitable for those who draw anime, manga, and manhwa characters, especially those who prefer a more free-spirited line rather than overly clean lines. If you often draw male portraits, black hair, sharp eyes, dark clothing, suits, collars, or dark gray sketches, this set will fit easily into your daily workflow.

Notable brush groups in the Litz set

Sketch pencil brushes

The pencil brush group has a slight roughness, with clear pressure sensitivity, great for blocking in faces, hair, hands, and figures. When drawing lightly, the strokes come out fine and gray; when pressing harder, they get darker but still retain a dry brush feel.

Pen and gel pen brushes

The pen brush group feels close to drawing in a sketchbook. The strokes are loose, suitable for portrait sketching, drawing eyes, noses, lips, necks, and accent lines on clothing. This group is perfect for those who prefer a natural, less industrial look.

Smooth lineart brushes

The smooth lineart group is used to clean up sketches, outline hair, eyes, collars, and areas that need more defined lines. The nice thing is that the strokes still have a bit of breathing room, not overly round and uniform.

Grain spray and gray shading brushes

The grain spray brush group helps with shading, creating backgrounds, and adding light dark areas to cheeks, necks, and hair. This is an important group if you draw black-and-white art, as it helps the piece have midtones instead of just black and white.

Hair texture brushes

This is the most notable group. The hair texture brushes help create black hair masses with a scratchy feel, light gaps, and a sense of thick but not flat hair. Great for drawing male hair, black hair, messy styles, or various manga portrait styles.

Strengths of the brush set

The biggest strength of the Litz set is that the strokes feel very "hand-done." It's not too clean, not too smooth, and not fake texture. When used to draw characters, the artwork will have a sketchy, natural, and more expressive quality. This set is especially suitable for quick sketches, dark gray portraits, manga panels, or loose character illustrations.

Things to note

This set is not the ideal choice if you want ultra-smooth coloring, shiny skin rendering, or highly finished color illustrations. It leans more toward sketching, lineart, shading, and texture. So, if you use this set for color work, you should combine it with soft blending brushes or separate rendering brushes.

How to use this brush set in your workflow

A reasonable workflow could be: use the pencil for blocking forms, use the pen or smooth lineart for finalizing main lines, use the grain spray brush for applying gray shading, use the hair texture brush for building hair masses, then add a few dark line strokes to lock in the eyes, hair, chin, and collar. For male portraits, just adding a large black clothing area and a few layers of gray shading already gives the piece much more character.

Conclusion

The Litz Procreate brush set is a brushset very suitable for those who like character sketching, black-and-white manga, male portraits, black hair, and strokes with natural texture. The value of this set does not lie in the number of brushes, but in the fact that each brush group clearly serves a specific stage: sketching, inking, shading, creating hair, and finishing the artwork.