Photoshop coloring tutorial 1

This is HUGE, and sadly its full view or no view. Tutorials take a freakin long time to put together. The image only took a few hours to finish, but the tutorial took 7.... and its only a small chunk of the process. Next time I will cover my secret color finding technique, personal shading/highlight technique, and whatever anyone else wants me to teach them.

If you have any questions, please ask them.

Here is the image that the tutorial walks through coloring: [link]

Summery of whats covered:
1. linework prep
2. base coloring
3. a quick introduction to quick mask mode (since I like using it for some types of selections)
4. how to get the base color layers to work

note I forgot - the linework layer must always be on top. And, yes I know, I started switching form "I" and "you", sorry bout that.

Heh, for no reason at all, I doodled a few Poko pokos in the akward open spaces on this. I never ever draw him, so I decided why not. He is also the odd thing in the corner of the preview image. Hehe, his socks are a diffirent color every time