I actually knew about Krita's layer styles for a long time and used it to do outlines of speech bubbles for comics... But for some reason I never thought to utilize it for shading and highlights until now.
Which is weird, considering that I was already abusing SAI's watercolor edge effect over ten years ago. Young Denpring learned about digital art and immediately abused effects and gimmicks... Some things never change, huh?
...Point is, layer effects are useful for softening (or defining) the edges of shadows and giving a nice glow to highlights! Combined with filters, you, too, can distract people from your lack of fundamentals with shiny colors!
(Don't do that, try to learn the fundamentals correctly if you can LOL)
(More about Krita and digital art technicalities under the cut)
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