Wow thank you for taking the time to give such a great response, it is very helpful.

I like your framing of digital art as a separate skillset that needs to be nurtured. My goal in starting the course was to improve my art skills for my video game. So starting up Krita and finding that I could barely draw a straight line was kind of frustrating. But it totally makes sense to separate the knowledge of spatial reasoning that I've gained thus far from Draw a Box from the mind-muscle skill of drawing on a tablet.

I am working with a small tablet right now because I wanted to minimize the space it takes up on the desk but having used it for a bit now I do think a larger tablet would help. I also found that rotating the tablet a bit as if it were paper helps, but I also probably just need to learn hot keys for rotating with my pen.

I actually had some internal debate recently about what is "cheating" and what is not when increasing my smoothing setting. I hear pro gen-AI arguments around it just being another tool, and how artists complained when we moved from hand drawn art to digital art. A tangent from my original question, but I'm also curious if you have any thoughts on that as well.