Hello. I’m a mandala artist and I’m new in Krita. Somehow I can’t figure it out where is the sharp tipped brush in Krita. Please check the link I have recorded an example from CSP and Krita:
I’ve been watching brush tool tutorials on Youtube and do everything they do just it won’t work for me. No matter what setting I apply it’s always rounded tip. I draw with mouse btw I don’t use pen tablet.
I’m not sure you can do that in Krita, at least not as shown in the Video. I’m using it for years but maybe I just don’t know it because I never needed it. Most brushes in Krita use pressure sensitivity of the pen to get line strokes like that. I could imagine that there is a feature like this hiding somewhere in the assistant tools or stabilizer, though.
you can directly draw with a brush which has pen pressure to get the desired effect in realtime. In CSP I see that it emulates pressure after you draw the stroke, that is not possible in Krita but you can already use a brush with pen pressure to draw it is not required to emulate anything.
If I had pen tablet Krita does that yes but I only use mouse. When I use mouse to draw and if I activate pressure it doesn’t do any change. Still goes with rounded tips 
Unless you have one of these fancy mice with pressure sensitivity, Krita will always recognize your mouse klick as 100% pressure since it can only have two states (pressed or not pressed). Because of that the Brush will always have full size. Krita is really not made for painting with a mouse.
That’s sad I can draw things perfectly on a paper but I just can’t use pen tablets lol. I can’t get used to it. On the other side… I can use CSP as alternative to Krita which has the feature I need BUT for mandalas CSP only allows up to 16 lines (16 brushes simultaneously) which makes Krita better at that point because it can go up to 50 which is perfect for detailed big mandala designs… meh… So there is no way then. Thank you all for answering my question.
May be check with the speed sensor, fade and time sensors to control the thickness, these sensors control the thickness based on speed, length and time respectively.
Read more about sensors -> https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/brushes/brush_settings/tablet_sensors.html
Possible yes, but probably a royal pain to get it work properly with different stroke lengths. And I think OP wants a uniform line that gets thicker until the exact middle of the stroke then getting thinner again just the same way. That’s just not possible the way kritas brushes work
I have tried those. Didn’t help. I wish Krita would add this feature in next updates. I have CSP too but for some reasons I like Krita way more.
Is there any other pen tablet with a screen less expensive than Cintiq? 
I literally can’t draw while looking at my monitor. I need something like Cintiq but its price is buhhhh…
Check out Huion Kamvas or some XP Pen equivalent.
Also a PSA: you don’t need a screen tablet to draw well. A stabilizer and a bit of practice can help you with a screenless tablet as well. And screen tablets have some downsides too, besides being very expensive.
I will check those products. I have tried screenless tablets for a while. Stabilizing wasn’t the issue, problem was when I lift the pen I couldn’t exactly place it on another line while staring at monitor to continue drawing. I know with practice this can be solved but it didn’t in 3 weeks and it was tiring. I didn’t want to hate what I’m doing so I stopped. I have OCD problems every time my eyes goes to tablet when I strike a line. Yeah maybe I need to force myself to practice more.
By the way… May I ask what are the downsides of screen tablets?
Except that they cost a fortune? For me one of the biggest downsides is – however this is probably because I was used to non-screen tablets for 15 years – that my hand and arm get in the way and always cover a quarter of the screen and that my arm gets tiered sooner since it can’t rest on the tablet all the time.
But it’s probably a good Idea to open a new topic for that question.
The trick is to just hover the pen high enough above the tablet so the movement is still recognized but it doesn’t draw. Then you can see your hand-arm-pen movement on the screen.
Well… I think it’s time to try again. I just placed an order for Wacom Intuos. I hope it’s enough for what I need 