Teach me the shading/ colouring/backround ways you do sensei.
I shall teach you, mine child.
Usually I use simple pastel colours for all my drawings, but usually the happier ones! If a drawing is darker or edgier, using a darker palette can make the drawing fit the theme better! Never use bright eyestrain colours unless the drawing is meant to be eyestrain. But sometimes bright colours can work in the background!
I don’t shade very often, but when I do remember: always avoid shading with black. Black is a drab colour that lacks the colour that you want in the drawing. It makes the drawing more dull, but shading in any colour else like a purple or pink brings out more colour in the drawing!
Pupil shading, I feel, should be done in the lineart colour! My lineart colours are never usually black, but some kind of dark blue, purple or pink! The regular colour you use for shading, depending on what you make the eye colour, can make the shading of the pupil look lighter when you want darker, so using the lineart colour helps it look like you wish!
Backgrounds are easy, unless you are making the background a location of sorts, you may struggle to get it right. But if you are doing a simple colour background, you can do anything you please! But keep the colour of the background light or dark depending on the palette.
The background can look however you like, whether it be making the whole background your colour of choice, or making a shape with the colour and making the rest of the background a darker colour or plain white!
This is all I know since I don’t exactly think too much about how I do certain colouring/shading/background things. Hope it helped out a bit!