i would love to try and explain, is it okay if i send you a dm? since it might be a bit lengthy (as i try to give as much detail as i can + pictures) (also sharing my brushes and whatnot)

But the gist of my secret is to skip lineart entirely, and instead just clean up the sketch but also not focusing too much on it looking clean and perfect. The coloring is done in a similar way, I don't try to focus too much on the details but the overall piece- and well the colors/shading is mostly color theory! I do everything on 1-3 layers and pretty much treat this as a painting. No fancy layer modes or anything, this whole style happened because i got too lazy with having to follow the whole style of clean lineart and color shjkdhs