What if you’re working on a job and have to use custom brushes they’ve made? Or, a friend wants you to check out a cool new brush they’ve made? You can import them, using the Brush Library. However, you will see two cases below where it might not be quite that straightforward.
IMPORTANT: You cannot import brushes to your iOS or Android devices.
The brushes I want to import were created in a different version of Sketchbook than what I have
If you’re running the latest version of Sketchbook – you’re golden. If you’re not, you’ll need to be running the same version the brushes were made in or higher.
Someone sent me brushes not made in Sketchbook
We only support the .skbrushes
brush format, so you won’t be able to import and use these brushes within Sketchbook.
Importing brushes in Sketchbook Pro for desktop
There are two ways to import a brush on desktop. The most straightforward is to drag and drop the brush into the canvas or double-click the brush file. If it isn’t handy, try this:
Loading brushes using Import Brush Set
- Download our Free brushes (or wherever there's a brush set) and save it to your computer.
- In the Brush Library, tap a brush set.
- Tap-hold
and select
Import Brush Set.
- Navigate to your Downloads folder. (This is the default location for where the downloaded brush set should be.)
- Double-tap the brush set. Even though it's a zipped file, this shouldn't be an issue. The set is immediately loaded into your Brush Library.
An alternate method to import a brush
- In the Brush Palette, tap to open the Brush Library
to open the Brush Library.
- Tap within a brush set to access
.
- Tap
and select
to create a brush.
- In Create Do-It-Yourself Brush, tap Import.
- Select a brush and tap Open. The brush will be loaded into the Brush Library.
Pinning a brush set to the Brush Palette
Now that you’ve created and probably imported brush sets into the Brush Library, you may have found a set you love to use. If so, why not pin it to the Brush Palette? This will replace the current brushes in the palette with those in the chosen set.
- In the Brush Library, tap the brush set you want to pin to the Brush Palette.
- Tap-hold
and select
Pin Set To Palette. You will see your palette is now loaded with the new brush set.