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just wanted to report back
this does pretty much what I envisioned, although I wasn't sure how to use the gradient tool along a curve so I just went over the edges with an eraser (had the main color overlap underneath all others)
One major issue I had was that I couldn't overlap my layers initially because with multiply on for the shading the overlapping bits were also affecting each other
The solution was to set all my color layers back to Normal mode, group them into a Layer Group, and set the group itself to Multiply mode
My texturing attempts can now continue