Well, I'll take the compliment
. I'm sure you would get much better by just trying different coloring methods and just practising, you make really great ideas, a drawing style (Which takes a long time to get) and you make really clean linearts, something I could never do well (I try to avoid making linearts as much as I can because of that).
I just found a workflow I think I feel comfortable with, but it's definitely not the only way to work, or rather, not everyone would feel ok with it. So the only way to learn which workflow is the best for you is to try all the ways you can find.
And some general message: Yeah, I haven't updated in a while, and if you check DeviantArt often you might guess why. I got invited to participate in a book with 4 other artists (yay), so I've been actually pretty busy drawing, and I don't think I can show anything of them yet. That puppet I showed is actually a tease of one of the drawings