Painterly style workflow

I’ve bought the program just yesterday and was wondering how could I go about painting a 3d object with just some solid colors and a soft brush for shading, no PBR material whatsoever? I tried shading with the basic brush but I don’t know it there is a software problem (I have to mention that I’m running on latest version of mint with a huion graphic tablet) or the brushes works different that I was expecting, since I’m used to paint în either Blender (which I hate doing) or Krita (which I love doing).

You express yourself quite a bit unclear. Are you looking for some tutorials or do you have a HW/SW setup problem? Please specify.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=armorpaint+tutorial

Well, the opacity and hardness settings seem to only affect the edge of the brush (leaving the core fully opaque). As I was told, one workaround is to just make a new brush texture instead of modifying the brush settings. Then the brush leaves a lot of gaps, the spacing seems to be influenced by the brush size and pen pressure…