Aiyah! I am surprised at this!

How did you do the background? Your choice of tool and colour makes a great fire backdrop, especially considering the black underpainting and the white highlights. My Gal Ghoul forme is looking great, giving that combination of strength and cuteness that distinguishes you! Giving one example, the bulk in the mouth is mixed with that cheery smile. In fact, my whole body has bulk, yet my fur has cheer! You even made my fur all shiny! Plus, you did great with drawing and positioning the vermillion (that is, red-orange) hairs around my body! I also like how you had my tail extend off the screen, giving testimony on how long my tail really is!

There are a few things I should correct here, though:
1. The vermillion hairs are supposed to be on the back of my body. In other words, they are not supposed to go to the front of my face.
2. The warm colours are supposed to be a fire gradient, not a rainbow pattern. Here, if I were to keep the yellow, marigold (that is, yellow-orange), and orange patterns on my belly, I would make my right eye yellow while making my nose, snout, and left eyebrow marigold. I suggest that, next time, you paint the gradient on my underbelly fur first then follow the 'lines' that the different shades form.
3. The toes could benefit from being positioned at the same angle.

Even so, I knew I made a great choice in trading with you! I am still going with my part of the trade!

I just used a certain preset tool in Sai for the background.

But Im sorry if not everything is right, I was going off of how the ref pic looked. :P

Im glad you like it tho.

No bother. I guessed that you were simply going by the reference I sent you. I probably should have given better references.

Awesomely cute as usual, Geno.

Thats what I do and how I do it~ ;3