Hello everyone, I hope you are doing fine. As for me it's been a nice day and it concluded with a cute addition for the art gallery I am making for the Brazilian Art Contest (I aim at showing different styles and techniques):

This is my very first work with MS Paint I ever made because since I got my first computer I never really tried it because I didn't like the results it gave me but this thread gave me the will to go out my comfort zone in terms of relying only to a single layer just like in traditional art (despite traditional art gives me more control over what I'm doing). And I was happy to have participated because I learned a lot about some aspects of digital painting that Krita didn't immediately gave me. I learned the importance of "sculpting" colours using the same hues and editing the value to work with different shades of the same colour and build a more realistic image.

I first started with the background and practiced with blending colours by switching between the pencil and ink tool 2 in order to achieve what I wanted, then I started sketching the rough shapes of the capybara (photo reference). After this I spent a bit of time painting, blending and working on both shades and highlights to obtain the final result. This is first time I learned to see the digital painting process under a different light that not even Krita or GIMP gave me because I was too focused on other process of digital creation. Thanks to MS Paint I learned that I can use hard brushes, like ink tool, as sketching tool for the blending phase and then the pencil can help building different hues by only working with colours I put on the canvas. Digital painting is really a form of sculpture with colours and hues made by them and this experience showed me this concept in all its power. I will try to apply what I learned on Krita. See you and have a nice day!