I was looking at random video tutorials and one said to draw a crappy sketch with the tablet, do weak shades over it, put on base colors, redraw the crappy sketch into a crappy outline, and fix shit you fucked up on before.

Needless to say I was doing great until redrawing the outline. Then my moral took a hit. Cause the shades looked terrible. So I spent over a day fixing those.

Sadly, the turtorial ended before telling me how to make the art awesome. There was a big gap. There was, "Fix Shades, _, _, _, BEAUTIFUL LIKE-PAINTING PICTURE! And I have no idea what those extra steps might be.

So I'm took my buddy Squic as a test subject and left him at the last stage I knew about. Now he's... Anime Squic.