ScarletFrost
For starters, I like your overall style. I'm not much of an art critic, so I'll just share some tips I've learned over the years.
One thing that has helped me get a better feel for colors and contrasts is to nix the white background. I know it's second nature to those of us who started out traditionally, but the white will make your darks feel TOO dark and bleach out your highlights. Try a 50% grey background. Then work down to darks as you shade and up to lights as you highlight. A good exercise is to draw different light levels--day, night, dusk, face under-lit-by-flashlight, etc.
For size, just use a bigger canvas and zoom out so you can draw comfortably in that space. Then zoom in to add details. Also, if you're scanning in traditional art and then coloring it, you might want to try a higher resolution scan. I always go 300x300 dpi at minimum.
I know how you feel about the whole line art thing. I'm pretty much resigned myself to being a comicbook-style artist. I just need the lines to define my world!!
ninja the background idea sounds great, I'll definitely try that with my next attempt, thanks c;
the size part was kind of my own fault, out of habit. I actually had a large canvas, I just then zoom in on it too. So when I zoom out again, I might as well have used a canvas 1/5 of the size :< zooming out instead is probably a good idea
& i know right! xD my next attempt (this could be a complete failure) is to do the line art 'multi-colored'- the outline will be a shade or two darker than the base tone I put inside. It will probably look awful, but hopefully it'll give me an idea as to what to try next.
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