>>287727Thank you quite a lot actually. I actually did this without planning on working on it in photoshop so I went ahead and shaded it. I kept in the line work because I thought it looked a bit better with the shading using it as texture. But yea, normally it's not shaded in the line art.
if you wanted to poke an idea in or just take a look at what else i've been working on you can go here:
ikimono1.deviantart.com