Personally, i shade with a mix of the airbrush, the basic round brush (that has opacity sensitivity), the default soft marker brush (i dont remember its name, but it uses a different engine than the pixel brushes), and a custom brush i made that has a sharp side and a soft side at the same time. When you shade with the airbrush, you gotta use selections to create the hard edges, or else it'll look muddy. Maybe you could describe how is it possible to achieve such folds like on the reference.

I'm not feeling confident with the brushes so I'd like to ask for some help here.

On the ref man can clearly see that there are as hard so soft shadows, but trying to achieve that with the brushes I used gives me too blurry or too hard edges. One where I try to quickshade a t-shirt and a reference, and one with my other clothing studies and also the reference. There are so many that now I'm getting overwhelmed. I do understand it needs training and not the brushes are to blame, but I just want to know which should be used. And if it somewhat works to shade a circle, it does not with hard edges. And I also tried to find online videos to show some process, but it's not really working if you don't feel confident that these are the brushes you need. I already saw other tutorials and posts, but some of them recommend the airbrush, but as for my taste its too blurry, some mention blender brushes or even different layer modes, or smudge tools (which I believe are non in Krita but brush types). Also in the process of learning, I came to a point where I started to study clothes and folds, and here has the point come where I must control soft and hard shadows.

I did already portraits and other paintings, and it was almost always another brush for each work.Īfter I started to learn more thoughtfully, I considered deleting all custom brushes and start to know the basics. I've been using Krita for some time now, but I'm still considering myself a beginner, and I was always struggling with choosing a brush to use. I would like to know which brushes do you prefer while trying to paint in Krita.

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