Study piece to learn how to do stylised fur texture a bit better

I used this as a reference, no tracing https://www.tumblr.com/chicar/813543747480633344

Nice and floofy.

Didn't realize it's digital art at first, looks a lot like pencil. What kind of brushes did you use? I've been trying to learn digital art but always have trouble with brushes.

I just used one of the default pencil brushes in Krita, I think they're fantastic. After doing the pencil outline I used one or two watercolour brushes.

For either purpose I just pick one, and if it's not doing what I want I ctrl+z and try another

I think the most important thing with any brush is getting control of how hard you're pressing down, you should have a light touch unless you want to blow out the brush and make it as dark as possible.

I practice with vertical and horizontal strokes with a relaxed wrist as a warm up

have a light touch unless you want to blow out the brush

In some combination of default settings, sure. But if you consistently maxed out pen pressure on most brushes then you might want to try to adjust your pen settings. No idea how to do that on tablet style device though, I have only work on desktop.

I only use my tablet on my desktop too, pressure is calibrated but still find it easy to push too hard. It's a coordination issue for me

Why so sad, fox?

Poor fox, I don't think it likes to stay in krita.

That's why I had to set it free into the fediverse