i wonder how long it’ll take people to realize you don’t want to share your personalized brush settings

Asking an artist for their specific brush settings, if they came up with those settings themselves, is a little bit like asking magicians how they do their tricks. Sure, there are some super basic principle they wouldn’t mind sharing if you want to start learning, but they can’t and won’t tell you how to do the big stuff. They’d get less work if they did. You should respect an artist’s right to keep the tools that make their work unique to themselves.

You just gotta figure some stuff out on your own. You can get all the fancy tools you like, but if your core skills are weak it’s not going to magically improve your work.