I wanted to try adding a background in a different color. I had wanted to add a background to the original version, but it was already pretty busy, and I was worried that adding a background would make it too hard to see the characters, as it had in old attempts. So I went out to grab some grey multiliners.
They didn't have any grey multiliners at the store.
But they had sepia ones, so i got them, since I didn't feel like waiting for grey ones to ship from an online store. I think it probably worked better, honestly. They don't lay down as flatly as the black, leaving dark points, but they work well enough for the purpose.