Squid Inking Workflow for Procreate

Inking is supposed to be the fun part. But somewhere between a hundred precision brushes and a blank white canvas, it turned into the tedious part — the stage you push through instead of enjoy. Squid fixes that.

This is not a pile of brushes. It is a complete inking system for Procreate built on one idea we call Stage Thinking: every brush has a stage and a job, so you always know what comes next. You move from a loose first mark to a finished, living sketch that looks like a hand made it. Because one did.

You’re probably looking at this and wondering if it’s just another set of inking brushes like the ones already buried in your library. It’s not. Most Procreate inking brushes hand you a hundred tools and leave you to guess which one to use. Squid does the opposite — it gives you a workflow. You open a template that’s already alive with worn paper, ink stains, and real grain, and you start. No blank canvas staring back at you.

The brushes respond to how you move. Push harder and the ink bleeds. Move faster and the line thins. Slow down and the texture settles. You get happy accidents that feel like real media, not a filter — soft and delicate one moment, wild and expressive the next.

That’s the feel. Here’s what you actually get.