thanks! i just filled in the colours, created a layer mask, painted on the layer mask at i think 30% opacity in a purpley red shade (kind of the shade of her boots), and painted in highlights on an overlay layer (light yellow). the background was roughly painted and then i put a gaussian blur filter over it. sorry, it's hard to go in depth and talk about the colouring process without reference pictures or pages and pages of text, maybe i'll make a tutorial one day. >u<