Some people are curious as to how How I and Kintall color our images. (namely, Quwaar : P)
I can\'t say anything for Kintall, since he has photoshop, but this is what I do.
First, let\'s start off with a scan, nothing particularly fancy here.
I generally create a layer for the skin(body), Face, Clothes, and Hair.
This is so that if I mess-up very little colateral damage will result.
Remember: When coloring an image, the Layers window is your best friend. 
Here is an incomplete line art of the image (notice lines for the hair are missing). The tool I usually use for lines is the paintbrush, but I have chosen to use the pencil for this sketch.
Once I\'m done \'tracing\', I create a white background layer called \"Color\".
This is finished lineart.
Then, I create a copy of each of the line layers and merge them down into the color layer. The fill tool completes basic coloring. After that, I take the pencil again and outline the whites of the eyes.
Colored.
Since I used the pencil on this sketch, I might seek to loosen it up a bit by applying blur to each of the line layers
