if you follow my main @-starryyeyed-, you'll know that I figured out how to make ms paint gradients-- I pulled some crazy stuff to get them to work here, haha, but I think I'm getting the hang of it? so basically you color all of the area you want the gradient to be in one distinct color (i used bright red since I hadn't used it anywhere else) then set that color [bright red] to color 2 and turn on transparent selection in a separate canvas you make a gradient, then paste and copy it back it's a bit tedious but it works ig