Digital portrait 1/1000

[BumsUnite]

I plan on doing 1000 of these
I just dont know how to begin coloring in without destroying all the values i have set in place. I tried overlay mode with the brush but it doesnt seem to work.

Also i am having trouble with picking out the right colors...can anyone give me any advice on how to go about coloring in my greyscale paintings?

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n202/MatterdE/self4copy.jpg

[BumsUnite]

I can already see an improvement from the last one, this one took me half the time to get going! - still need some work though.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n202/MatterdE/NewSelf4copy.jpg

[saa]

those are nice.

to color your grayscale images you can use the color mode instead of overlay. it's nearly at the bottom of the list.

you're doing good so far, keep going