Ariana Grande (Base colours) TUTORIAL/UNFINISHED

Birthday gift for my bestest friend and 'lil bro.!  Love ya bro.!

Finished this thing at 02:00 on the morning of 21 December 2013 -___-;

TUTORIAL:  This is a form of cell shading - honestly LOVE cell shading!  I'm better at this than realistic shading  So, as you can see, I used the reference photograph as my guide.  To paint the base colours, simply look for the sections of colour where it seems to has the MOST of that particular colour and paint it on your sketch.  After you paint it, find the next most prominent colour and paint it where it should appear on your sketch.  Keep repeating this step, decreasing the amounts of paint as necessary.

Once all of your base colours have been properly painted on, look for the colours which appear in the least amount and use a fine point pencil or small brush to detail the painting.  Repeat until you're finished

EDIT: To be honest, I actually like this one better than the finished picture.  Not sure why but I'm better at flat ('cartoon') colours and shading than I am at realistic colouring/shading.

EDIT: Yes, her eyes look black, but they are actually a very, very very dark brown.  They were originally a little lighter, but I darkened it a bit for shading else it looked weird  If you zoom in (DA won't zoom in very far for this - I don't know why since it's a freaking high resolution >o< but if you have Chrome or some browser) you can zoom in and see brown around the iris.
I also just realised something...it's bothering me now  that hairline looks off but it's the shading X'D  haha  that's really creepy and funny.

Reference photo: eu.cdn282.fansshare.com/photos…