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Personally, I have no qualms about using newfangled digital trickery to improve my artwork whenever possible. I know this would make my art instructors roll over in their graves, (assuming they've succumbed to the assortment of deadly traps I've placed for them that is) but the fact is I'm not above shortcuts when necessary.  Case in point, in panel four, I thought it would be a little funnier if these twins had the exact same expression on their faces when looking dumbfounded. A little copying and resizing and presto! Instant identical expressions.

To my mild degree of shame, I'll admit that I'd have scarcely made it as an artist for a living before the invention of digital art programs. I can't imagine busting out a quill pen and drawing my lines for Switch with potentially messy globs of india ink. I tried it a few years back, and it was the most anxiety-inducing practice I've ever attempted. The idea that so much as a twitch in my wrist could produce a blot of blackness that would ruin hours of work was more than I could handle.  I remember once when I was a kid I made a fan comic about my idea of a sequel for the SNES classic game Chrono Trigger, using pencils and art paper. I obsessed for weeks on end trying to make it look as perfect as possible, only to spill a drink one horrendously fateful evening and destroy weeks of work. I don't think I'd ever have given up on being an artist for a living, but the advent of the digital medium sure sped that goal up significantly.