[Duchess]

I've felt the same about this particular piece. XDD

I sketched these lines on paper and inked with a pen.. I thought it came out amazing... so I wanted to do some digital work on it.
I did the line art with the pentool for it. It came out fine... but I lost something from the traditional work in the process :S So I thought colour would fix it
yeehhhh... it just made it worse. OTL

Oo Maybe you'd need to experiment with your colouring style to find out which compliments your lines the best. Your lines ARE amazing. ZOMG I should colour one sometime x]

The way I colour.... is a lazy cheap way of "colouring" xP It's like... fill bucket -> pen tool -> burn -> smudge -> burn again -> dodge -> more dodge desu

Aaandd you're done. xP If you have complex pattern, insert a layer mask somewhere into the steps.