If you don’t look too close it passes for a face & hand. I will keep working on it but how do you do such beautiful work on the portraits? It is from a black and white photo so I’m trying to stick with tones.
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Have you tried all the brushes? If not I encourage you to do so, one by one. See what the brush does, if you like the effect and think you can use it when you’re painting. If a brush doesn’t seem to do anything it’s probably an eraser or a blending brush. Try those over something you have painted earlier.
If your painting is becoming blotchy you can take a blending brush and go over the blotchy area to even out the colours.
Another thing you can do is to use the colour picker often. Hold down ctrl and tap somewhere in your image and the colour at your pointer will be selected.
Also resizing your brush can have a good effect. You can do that quickly by holding shift and dragging the stylus on your tablet.
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Thanks, I do tend to use pencils & think they should work like a pencil but the pressure isn’t the same… It’s a great idea to use different brushes for effect comparison I’ll build up layers using each brush and see how they go. I have used the blenders & erasers with different opacity for various effects. Also by mistake too…
Will put up some of the different attempts, let me know what you think.
What I’m looking for is something like this:
Finally had time to sit down a while. 
For your first image you could consider these steps:
If it’s a pencil sketch you want, try “Pencil-5 Tilted”. It works pretty well imo.
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Thanks for taking the time to do that, it’s really appreciated. I will definitely look at those brushes, I was playing with a water effect brush that smoothed and blended similar to what you did. It is great that the artists on Krita a so willing to help this is what makes it a good platform to learn on.
Once again thanks @Bleke Keep up the great work.
Thank-you for these examples!
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