Mabelma's Thread of Stuff (Art)

[Mabelma]

Hey guys so I sketched this out yesterday and it looks good enough to be inked and colored but I though I might try something different so I though of coloring differently maybe like this or something like that but I have no clue on how to do that. I think he used photoshop for that and I looked around on google for a while but I didn't find exactly what I wanted so if you could help me out that would be greatly appreaciated. Do you have any tips on how to do that? What should I search on google to get some better results? Critics on the image? Also the image is based of the popular game Castle Crashers for XBL by The Behemoth. The art in the game was created by the amazing Dan Paladin. Here's the character I based mine off. I know it's a big jump on style but I didn't want to just copy I wanted to be more original. Hope you like and that you can help me.

He's suppose to be sad for some kind of reason, I might draw a few skulls of his friends on the floor with some blood splatters later and maybe that will be why he will be sad or something like that.

The image I'm using for color reference does not belong to be it was made by Jouste and it's on my photobucket because I'm using as my Desktop BG and it was easier to upload it there than to look for it again.