Yeah, it does. In some ways, trad media is easier and more intuitive because it has material properties, and those properties give you cues you can react to. Digital media can’t provide most of those cues, so it’s trial and error (like with traditional media), plus another layer of trial and error predicated on how a particular brush has been programmed. You can’t know how it will respond based on what the tool looks like, or even how the digital pigment looks on a digital canvas. You have to learn by doing it over and over, which does suck some of the get-up-and-go out of it. Some of the greatest upsides of digital art - the undo, the eraser that ignores fake material properties - are also products of the fact that this is necessary in digital art in ways it isn’t in traditional media.
So, long story short, doing something like this that isn’t so clean - something sort of feral - feels pretty flail-y done digitally due to the lack of material cues. Still, the “happy accidents” mantra applies to digital art, and keeping it in mind helps.
