My basic formula for working from paper to digital these days. D: it's nothing great but you get the general idea. I decided to use onna the images from my Ruke folio as an example.

1. The sketch. Usually time taken can be anywhere from a few minutes to about a few hours. depends on what I'm drawing. This picture of Kimmy took me like five minutes cause I had done a page of thumbnail poses, closed my eyes and pointed at one and then redrew it.

2. Once scanned, I took her to oC3 and inked her up. notice how different she looks. Yeah that happens alot. I bushed out her neck ruff and made her hair longer and wavy in places. but for the most part she's still Kimmy.

3. Then I colored the lines. Which was just me locking the layer. hitting insert and then touching up a few of the line colors. I didn't show it in this step but I also added her markings on a separate layer with a verry thin pen drawn in gray.

4. Flat colors. Done by selecting the outter portion of the lines, Contracted by one two times. and filled with her base color. Then the rest was just doing the needed clean ups.

5. Shading done on a multiply layer. I wanted her to stay nice and pastel like so I lowered the opacity of the layer to about 40 or so. blah blah blah.

6. And the highlights. Basically the same as the shading, but on an addition layer, set to about 60% because she was GLOWING when I finished highlighting and that.. that's not pastel at all, it's GLOWING.

As you can see, it's very simple, but again, you basically just learn things on your own and mix to taste.