It was this version
of that song that was on my Spotify that did it.
Then it was meant to be a brief interlude but I was trying to avoid cel shading because I hate doing it (I'm just straight up bad at it) but the other colouring styles weren't working out (honestly it looked fine but not what I wanted) so I guess my brain decided that I needed to work on cel shading (and in some fairness to it I had kind of gone more anime/manga with this, Dak is the only one that would dual wield guns because his cybereyes can link up with his guns).
I worked out the marker brushes in Krita and I guess I can cel shade to some value of cel shade now and it was a lot quicker than the other colouring methods so there will likely be more of that when I want to do something actual quick as it is faster when I have a clue.
The next roadblock I hit was hugo doesn't manage avif which is what I originally saved out to, and mogrify I think uses the built in sRGB which likes to make jpgs dark for reasons unknown to me. What I usually end up having to do in these situations is open the image in Gimp which then wants to convert it to sRGB-linear and export from that. What I actually need to do is remember to see if changing Krita's colour profile to sRGB-linear mitigates this. I don't do 2d often enough to remember.
Some useless trivia: I should have tilted the canvas slightly as my writing slopes up so the words that are supposed to be in straight lines actually took the longest to do.
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