When drawing in Krita with my new drawing tablet, it tends to pause when I lift my pen from the drawing tablet and it really bugs me when I'm trying to draw because I tend to do a lot of strokes. Is there anyway I can stop it so it'll just smoothly follow my pen?

maybe you're having a problem with instant preview.

try turning that off in the menu "View" -> "Instant Preview Mode".

You can turn it off on a brush-by-brush basis, too. there's a checkbox at the bottom of the brush editor for that.

It worked! Thank you so much!

well, now as a different issue all together, now any stroke I make doesn't trail from light to dark with pressure as well as look like messy lines instead of smooth ones... any knowledge on this?

If there's no pressure support either of two things are possible: you accidentally activated the action that disables the pressure sensor (hard, there's no default shortcut for that) or the wintab driver cannot be opened by Krita. That's not a bug in Krita, it's a problem in your windows installation. (I'm guessing you're using Windows because you didn't mention which OS you're using).

Yes, I'm using windows. Is there a way to fix it?

Try reinstalling the driver or installing a different version of the driver.

How do I go about doing that?

never mind to my previous question, I uninstalled then reinstalled Krita and it's back to normal with pressure strokes