Original- Mirii Colour

I'm not sure if you would classify this style as cartoon or anime but I decided it looked more western than eastern so placed it here.

Mirii is one of the best friends of the main character in a story me and my sister are working on. She doesn't get much air time in the first story arc but I like her so I wanted to draw her. A quiet and good girl who loves animals and plants as well as mechanics she cares a lot for her three best friends and tries to help people as much as possible but can sometimes be lead to mischief by one of them who has a large streak of mischief in him (a case of if you can't fight them join them).

I wasn't sure if I liked the background or not so I decided to post them both together and see what others thought. I don't often get around to shading my pictures but I decided to try my hand at a cell shading style, again not sure if I like it or not. If anyone has any advice or good tutorials on cell shading I'd be happy to hear them.

Pencils- mechanical pencil (B)
Ink- Flash MX
Colour- Photoshop 7