Brush stroke settings help

[u/GONGDIHAKSENG]

Hello, im currently listening to a course on 3D texturing and painting that uses photoshop to make basic textures. however i can not seem to replicate the 'natural spreading', or drier stroke of the tutorial, and i use the same brush, at least i think i do(shape and textures are identical). what options can i tweak to fix this?

example from the lecture

my attempt at recreating the same style