THANK YOU!
Thank you SO much for this tutotial! I actually came across it a few years ago... well, I can even give you the date: it was on the front page, so it must've been 6/20/09 haha. But I didn't really use it then; I just thought it was cool.
Now that I have been drawing more and more and my skills are improving, I want to color my black and white drawings (I mostly just like to draw and shade with pencil on paper). However, I just couldn't get a look that satisfied me. I had the general idea that you use, with coloring under the lines-that's obvious, but it just never came out right. Your tutorial has REALLY helped me now, after these years. I remembered it and came back to check it out again.
One of the ways it helped me most was actually your little trick at the very beginning. I had no idea how to get my lineart separate from the white of the paper without manually tracing it out. lol. you saved me a lot of time, effort, and frustration there. The coloring techniques helped a lot, too! I have a different style of drawing than you, especially the hair; the hair coloring didn't apply much, but everything else was really great. :)