Hehe, no apologies necessary! These are my settings for my pencil tool (in Paint Tool SAI)!

My methods with adding shades/lighting varies a lot; I’ll either smudge/blur firm color strokes or use various brush/marker brushes that I have!

And I don’t really have a specific canvas size I feel I must work with. Whenever I open new canvases, they start at a small size of ‘9x10’ inches, but I tend to resize to bigger resolutions at random, if not (most likely) crop later on. :)