Here’s My Answer:

she should be minding the shop but instead… ( * ´_ゝ`)

There's so much disbelief around what we make. Annoyance when we remind them that we do; the product of our creative labor and endeavors always just seen as something to pluck from our hands and "dust off" any remnants of the blackness that gave birth to it.

In some ways it feels like a behavior trained into whiteness and exported alongside that whiteness, that black people are never allowed to prosper. Every good we make is only for others to enjoy. As if we're to be seen as the world's womb for innovation, and then left on the table bleeding because who cares about that which did the labor.

Hi! I don't know if I have any super superr useful advice but I'd say this:

if you are familiar w the technique, I'd say try it! Maybe combine your method with merging layers? You can copy them before you merge and if you feel like you'd wanna go back, go to those copied layers. You can always pick and choose what works for you and what doesn't. Just like, mess around with it and make some smaller drawings to try things out with less layers and see if it's fun or not.

I use this method personally and I say it comes a lot from having had more experience traditionally painting before digital painting. When you make a mistake while painting traditionally, you can just go over it with more paint. Same goes for digital, and there are a lot of ways in general you can tweak stuff digitally (warp tools, color correction/replacement, gradient maps, list goes on...) While ctrl+z does help, it can be kind of paralyzing when it comes to decision making bc you'll always have that desire to just spam it. Sometimes you just gotta roll with the stroke made and you can go back and fix it later.

You don't HAVE to use this method! I've got lots of other artist friends close to me that use A TON of layers to great effect. I think that there's definitely no shame in using them and while it can be cool to flex that you use less, it's not really a competition at the end of the day. The viewer can't really guess how many layers you've used majority of the time.