Feck me...that's even cooler than the final piece. Very informative :DDDD

Haha thanks n.n

OMG how did you do that! I love it! Do you have a more detailed walk through of this?

Thanks so much! Unfortunately not at the moment. I had been meaning to do a tutorial of how I shaded. If you have photoshop, basically:

I selected the shading shapes by using the Lasso tool with a 3px feather, one piece of her body at a time. Then I'd use the Gradient tool to fill in those shapes on a layer below the lineart which created that whole shaded layer there. I set that shading layer on Multiply.

That soft shaded layer that first says (multiply) I just selected her whole body and threw on some gradients over areas of the body to soften it up. That was on a layer above the shading layer set to Multiply.

Then I do my solid flat-colors on a layer under everything, and tada!

I'll have to save all this to remember lol XD Still, the picture came out lovely! Awesome job hun ^.^

Haha thanks so much!! n.n