Coloring Before Lineart. It generally should not be the same shade as the coloring. This lineart is freely available for coloring. This is my way of doing it Color layers on one folder with lineart layer on top and all of this will go into a single folder. You may have strong lineart so compliment that with even stronger shading techniques. Keep the line art separate on its own layer.

Keep the line art separate on its own layer. The more comfortable you become with this process the more versatile artist you will become. If you want something thats to the point and clean cut you should go for outlining first in case some part of the colouring goes wrong. This lineart is freely available for coloring. Lineart in vector or raster.
This lineart is freely available for coloring.
The more comfortable you become with this process the more versatile artist you will become. This is my way of doing it Color layers on one folder with lineart layer on top and all of this will go into a single folder. You can just set the lineart layer to multiply and proceed to coloring Multiply will disregard the whites of that layer so you can just add color underneath. Do you do Lineart before or after coloring. The downside to this is you cant change the line color. Keep the line art separate on its own layer. If you want something thats to the point and clean cut you should go for outlining first in case some part of the colouring goes wrong. It generally should not be the same shade as the coloring.