I'd like to be able to paint in a way, that makes multiple strokes look like the one on the right, not on the left!

The two pictograms were made using the stock “Basic-2 Opacity” brush in Krita on the same normal blending mode layer.

On the right, you see a varied pressure single stroke pictogram, that shows what the intersections of the line with itself does.

On the left, you see roughly the same pictogram, but done using three separate strokes.

While on the right, the opacity(?) or value(?), don’t know what to call it, is overwritten by the intersecting line, whilst the one on the left adds to the value when the separate strokes intersect each other.

Is there a way for the line-intersections on the pictogram on the left to look like the ones on the right, without it being the same stroke? I’ve seen a reddit post about this exact thing, but they didn’t figure it out, so I came here.

Please help! I’ve looked for quite a while now and I can’t figure it out…

I think the question is how to make opacity not compound across multiple strokes.

The solution for that would be to switch your brush painting mode to Build Up and your blending mode to Marker. You can also try using the Greater blending mode, although that will not do any color mixing unless you apply more opacity.

Edit: Marker mode exists since Krita 5.3. If you don’t see it, you might have to update.

Welcome to the forum, @SevScout. I’m happy for you that you have a solution.