I absolutely love how you use the markers. I've been trying to learn to color like that and am having some major issues. ANy tips?

Blending the right colors according to the relation and coming up with the right color scheme! So basically it's good to learn your warm and cool colors for this. There are so many colors out there! XP BUt for shading and lighting Pink would be the lightest red would be the mids and purple would be the shaded. But that's in that color relation each coor has a proper relation and finding each that match shouldn't be so hard. It's fairly simple. :3

I would start with the dark shading and then go to light for better blending that's how I do it!! :D