Well, last night, the lovely Iong and I tested out a free drawing program called DrawPlus starter edition. It is awesome! It is a vector drawing program, which means that it actively smooths my dodgy lines as I draw them, and also - my lines are editable =D

Here is an outline that I drew using DrawPlus:

After I had finished the outline, I exported it as a .png - with a transparent background (which is an awesome export option!) - so that I could color it in Photoshop. Here are some in-progress pictures of my coloring in:
And the finished picture!
Lastly, I tried out some filters in Photoshop:
~Addy =)