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You can compare this to what I believe is the state of the art system, "Wetbrush":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwyqh4d-WU8 (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ndr3qDXKo (Adobe demo)

Of commercial applications, Corel Painter remains the professional natural media paint tool:

http://www.painterartist.com/en/product/painter/

It's been around for about 25 years and some of the UI is a bit creaky, but on the upside, it's pretty fast on modern desktops and it still gets regular updates. Brush strokes with 3D depth ("impasto") were introduced a long time ago, maybe late '90s.

Also, here is an example of one of mine. Its pretty old now but runs really well on old ipads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbbQk9JK2OY Also been developing a (super fast) paint system for Unity mobile/VR: https://twitter.com/DaveSapien/status/800044501159079937 ....and here is another one of my paint systems for a new game I'm working on: https://twitter.com/DaveSapien/status/791628287915196416 Hope you like!

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