I use a mix between traditional sketching and painting/coloring digitally with my wacom tablet using both Photoshop CS2 and Painter. This is much like I would paint in normal traditional ways just with the neat addition of an undo button.
Additionally a few more older pieces and their progress steps to download:
A rough process overview of my autumn piece. Click the thumbnail to download the .zip file.
A rough process overview of my too sweet.. piece. Click the thumbnail to download the .zip file.
A rough process overview of my “Spring Petals” piece. Click the thumbnail to download the .zip file.
A rough process overview of “the Soulcollector”. Click the thumbnail to download the .zip file.
Here is a animated gif of such a process (please be patient as the file might take a bit to load: