I love the colours and the hatched kind of shading (I must admit, I'm going to steal that tactic soon 
I've never used soft brushes, looks like you use them quite a bit.. or don't you?.. ^^)What I mostly like it the raffled kinda thing from her sleeves. Colors are really great there!
And like Pery said, your work is always so glowing! I'm short for words to desribe And that lineart looks good too, I need to learn how to make longer straight strokes (I always make many small ones resulting in something ugly ) looks like it makes coloring from greyscale alot easier that way :3
Yes I am a sucker for soft brushes. It all stems down to insecurities with using strong brushes haha. I think I have learned a lot by using just the very basic brushes and I'm still learning about the soft vs. hard shading, and how you should only use the hard edgy strokes in places you want to bring forth and leave the rest softly blended. As for the lineart... Heck I'm messy as hell too, especially on paper. The only reason I am able to control myself and do the clean lines is because I'm already thinking they will be painted over so it doesn't matter that they suck... I'm trying hard to learn drawing stuff clean on the spot. I have a few friends who are very good at this and I'm soooooo jelly tbh. I believe it has a lot to do with self control aswell. 
Spent the last week sick and now I start over with this:
My work is like an endless stream of tasks and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. I guess I just have to get used to this but I miss doodling at work when I had nothing else to do. ;_;
