alrighty~ so  biscuitfox was chosen as the winner!

I saw how to do this in photoshop but not sai....so I wanted to play around with layer settings and such to see if I could ACCURATELY color over black and white images.

It worked :)

The colors are not spot on accurate, but I think I did ok considering that was my first try at that :D It's just so much easier to put more detail into black and white things for me, so I think this will help me a lot when it comes to things that need more detail ( like really intricate accessories or such~)

anyway, thank you all for all the volunteers~ I'll be deleting the journal now~ :)