Request: Enhanced Brush Settings

Hi Shauna.   Do you know if this is possible with other apps?  Krita has a decent brush engine, but I am no expert with it.

Examples of what your proposed brush strokes might look like would be interesting. 

Could layer styles with Fill Opacity set to zero do what you have in mind?  From a quick play I am getting unexpected results. Pressure size does exactly what you expect if you set a Stroke layer style, but pressure opacity does creates the expected brush stroke without any layer style stroke.  I am unable to effect the stroke opacity at all.

Upper squiggle pressure opacity, lower squiggle pressure size.

Layer styles are not going to help me thinks.

I got some possibly interesting results using the vertical oval with double gradient as a preset.

Center zig zag pressure size. Right zig zag both pressure size and opacity.  Brush spacing 10%

I had to take a second stab at this reducing the centre of the preset close to full white and still got a denser center than I expected.

OK, I wondered if brush spacing would affect the central density, and I think it does. 

This is with spacing set to 20%

I'm going to stop now in case I am getting it completely wrong.  I've spent a lot of time messing with Photoshop's brush engine, so I'm obviously interested.  After reading your post, I think I'll try and learn the Krita brush engine better than I do — which right now is is not very much.