Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Leo Ki]

They have a gallery at the factory!? But the bar is a better place for the portraits I would say. The staff get to see them more often :)

What I meant by hard round brush is basically the plain pencil with a wider diameter, no effects on it. It's totally possible to paint with that if you play with the opacity and size depending on what part you're painting. It's actually a good exercise to master it before using more complex brushes.

I think you can change the options of Clip Studio's color picker to pick either from a specific layer or the blended result: https://www.clip-studio.com/site/gd_en/c...ropper.htm

I've never used highlighting or darkening modes so I can't advise. Could be that you don't really need these? I find it more satisfying to find the colors I need rather than tweaking the underlying ones.

But the technical glitches you experience with the tablet, the delays and such, are worrying, they can hamper you and even turn you away from digital painting. When I started digital I had a long period of adjusting to the delays (which are probably slighter than what you have), also looking at the screen while moving the pen on another, slippery, surface was a bit painful.