adjective. Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper.

adjective. Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious.

adjective. Calling for or requiring great attention to sometimes trivial details.

adjective. Full of superfluous details.

Moving and acting with fuss; bustling; making much ado about trifles; making more ado than is necessary.

adjective. Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.

adjective. Anxious or particular about petty details.

adjective. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).

adjective. exacting especially about details

adjective. overcrowded or cluttered with detail

adjective. annoyed and irritable

"She starts by sketching, which she refers to as her fussy phase of the creative process, then begins applying masking fluid to the white spaces, gradually progressing to other lighter tones before adding more layers of color."

pedantic  picky  

fancy  fastidious  ill-natured  

fuss  

Debussy  gussy  hussy  

brisk  excitable  fastidious  foolish  impertinent  

Byzantine  accurate  agitated  arabesque  attentive  

fussier  fussiest