Years ago I'd settled on pencil => ink => color as easier than simply launching in and painting over pencils, and wound up doing comic book cut-and-grad coloring as potentially faster.

If comics use it, it's gotta be fast to turn out right? And if I finish art faster, that means I can learn more about coloring, potentially turn things around faster for customers, theoretically finish things rather than wander away and forget about em, right?

Of course NOW I'm seeing "block out big chunks of value, glaze color from there" is potentially much faster. Cell shading would give me a unified way of just blocking shading, work with lighter linework, and it'd also get me value contrast faster. I think maybe I can swap styles and still get the benefits of speed.

Gotta say "It's 3 AM, how could I shake up making art" is way better than "It's 3 AM and I'm a TERRIBLE ARTIST."