new painting method unlocked

What method is that?

prob sounds dumb kinda but i just took this sketch, removed saturation and colored under it with grays, merged them and made a color mask on top of it and added additional details on top
i also applied a gradient map but thats besides the point
idk its prob kind of a cheat method but i struggled a bit with stylized painting and doing an extra messy sketch helped a lot bc i could just turn my pen pressure opacity into the values bc im better at traditional stuff and it feels more traditionally logical to paint that way but idk i hate painting with actual paint so

Oh wow

inventing new methods instead of learning how to paint correctly ✌️

i love how messy it is

lineart and clean coloring is overrated imo (im lazy and dont like practicing)

yup definitely (i just color in low opacity over my sketch cuz its fast)

Art contest dropped chat (anyways cool art)

THIS IS SO GOOD I absolutely love art in this style pls keep going

THANK YOU SO MUCH ! ! !
ultimately i want to get to the point where i can color and make compositions like this but alas