I got the lineart off ‘krissthebliss’ on deviantart after I saw he’d had a go at this one and he even sent me his flats which was nice of him and saved heaps of time! 🙂 I got the magic circles brushes from ‘nomuh’ on deviantart as well
It’s been a while since I’ve done a picture that had heavy ink washes but it sure makes it easy to colour as you can let the washes do most of the heavy work. Getting the highlights bright enough is mostly the trick to it and then painting over some of the washes with colour holds to lighten things a bit here and there (eg skintones)