# Need help mimicking the look of doing messy amateur sketches **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Tags:** brush-identification, brushes-help\ **Created:** [February 22, 2026, 11:37am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/need-help-mimicking-the-look-of-doing-messy-amateur-sketches/169912 "2026-02-22T11:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/michelist/32/65826_2.png) [@Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/u/Michelist)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/need-help-mimicking-the-look-of-doing-messy-amateur-sketches/169912/3 "2026-02-22T12:40:11Z")
šŸ™‚ Hello @NesiaGrunn, and welcome to the forum! As is always the case, when someone new to digital painting begins (although this misconception also exists in real-life painting, albeit less frequently), they believe that all they need is the right tools and brushes, and then everything will fall into place. This is a fallacy! Digital painting, like almost any activity that involves learning skills, is no different from painting on canvas. Only when you have learned how to use the brushes and when you understand and master the use of all the other related media in painting, only then are you truly able to create works of art. Of course, you can specialize in just one area, for example your pencil drawings, then it goes faster because you only have to learn this one area, but without practice you wonā€™t be able to create works of art at the same level! I donā€™t know how many years it took you to learn your paper drawings on a wide variety of media, cardboard behaves differently than glossy paper, possibly with different pencils, in order to be able to repeatedly create these drawings in consistent quality, but you will also have to invest time in practicing here in order to achieve results like those in your example. Furthermore, your idea that it is not possible to paint digitally in such a way that it resembles a real-life image is incorrect. There are enough examples in our forum gallery alone to disprove this assumption, as it is simply wrong. At best, this may be true for certain niches, but nowadays it is often just a question of having the right software for the job. There are programs whose watercolor images cannot be distinguished from real ones, an area in which Krita is definitely not at the top of its game, but Krita has other fields in which commercial programs cannot compete. Many people come to Krita because of its brush engines, which are unmatched even by Photoshop, but here too, it must be said that there are few exceptions where Krita cannot replicate a PS function. So what?! But okay, I will at least name you excellent pencils you can try to use for your sketches, but it doesnā€™t mean you have found a shortcut, only good tools, tools that are in Krita too, but you havenā€™t been able to identify them by now, because your skill in using them doesnā€™t allow you digital what analog is no problem for you, but that will change with time. > [@Sketch V2. (SK2) Pleasure to draw. including colored pencils and blenders](https://krita-artists.org/t/sketch-v2-sk2-pleasure-to-draw-including-colored-pencils-and-blenders/59552): > > Because you need to feel the plaseure to draw. They are soft and very easy to use. DOWNLOAD: :wrapped\_gift:DOWNLOAD Brushes, PDF with user guide, and Template for sketching here: [https://files.kde.org/krita/extras/Sketch%20V2%20for%20KRITA5.zip](https://files.kde.org/krita/extras/Sketch%20V2%20for%20KRITA5.zip) :wrapped\_gift:DOWNLOAD Sample images with Sketch V2 Bundle. [https://files.kde.org/krita/extras/samples%20for%20Sketch%20V2%20KRITA5.zip](https://files.kde.org/krita/extras/samples%20for%20Sketch%20V2%20KRITA5.zip) I have included all the images created with this bundle, if you want to test the pencils over and ā€¦ > A bundle is installed in Krita via the menu ā€˜ā€˜Settingsā€™ā€™ \>\> ā€˜ā€˜Manage Resource Librariesā€¦ā€™ā€™ and in the opening dialog you have to click the button + Import in the next dialog browse to the downloaded bundle, select it and confirm the selection. Now Krita imports that bundle, and you can use its content, so the brushes in case of this bundle. > In case this BUNDLE comes in an archive-file, like ZIP or RAR for instance, then you have to unpack the archive to get the BUNDLE-File it contains, then you can proceed as described above. Michelist Add/Edit: And a few more of my favorites: > **[Brushes and Bundles](https://krita-artists.org/c/resources/brushes-and-bundles/32)** > > This is the brushes and bundles sub cagetory, please use this sub category for posting brush packs and other bundles related to krita and digital painting. > [@Proko Pencil from Infinite Painter for Krita](https://krita-artists.org/t/proko-pencil-from-infinite-painter-for-krita/103530): > > Hello, this is my first post and contribution to this community. I love Krita, Iā€™ve been using it for many years and itā€™s my main drawing program. Iā€™ve always liked to do my drawings on paper by first sketching in pencil and then inking, but I never found a brush in Krita that could mimic the feel of a real pencil the way I like it. So Iā€™ve always gone straight to inking. A while back I discovered Infinite Painter and its ā€œProko Pencilā€. Iā€™ve downloaded several brushes from this community thaā€¦ > [@Ultimate krita pencil brushes](https://krita-artists.org/t/ultimate-krita-pencil-brushes/143092): > > Share your art and leave a review. Thanks > [@Hi-uni 2b pencil brush](https://krita-artists.org/t/hi-uni-2b-pencil-brush/58006): > > Hello! First post here and wanted to share a pencil brush I made. I used the charcoal pencil by David Revoy as a base. His work is great but it didnā€™t exactly suit my needs so I modified it to be more like the Hi-uni 2B pencil. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g7TgnpxD\_b97KB1LsfzcR-0sU-f0RHQq/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g7TgnpxD_b97KB1LsfzcR-0sU-f0RHQq/view?usp=sharing) > [@Realistic-ish Pencil brush](https://krita-artists.org/t/realistic-ish-pencil-brush/119885): > > A while ago I attempted to make a realistic pencil brush. It came out pretty well, and really nice to use. This pencil wonā€™t, however, be nearly as nice if you canā€™t use the tilt, which controls the thickness of the line. Download: [Realistic Pencil - Krita ā€“ Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A7jPAQiXbF5rpmMPZgyZuyRWbAczBRn3?usp=drive_link) --- _[View the full topic](https://krita-artists.org/t/need-help-mimicking-the-look-of-doing-messy-amateur-sketches/169912)._