Well, I'm going to try something where I go step by step for what I do YO
I start off with the messy base that I do with some vibrant color I can see (I used this base color fo pikachu as well) you can see I basically didn't try at all but my goal is to get an ok picture of what the body looks like.
Then I do a less messy outline in black. This one is my real outline, so I take my time. This one took me about an hour or so. (Oof the body XD)
This is where I started raging because I couldn't get the tail right. This took almost TWO HOURS to get right. It was the worst experience-I mean look at that tail.