So first I sketched out a character here.

But first I'm gonna do the hair. So I darken the lines of the hair with a unipin.

I started with this part. I used a red brown and red for the hair.

Then I used a que tip with a bit of baby oil and gently smudge the colors to blend it.

I think it blended well but it's kinda hard to control

I just did the same for the rest of the hair. I used red for the base color of the hair and red brown for the darker parts.

Then I blended it all

Then darken the eyes using a Unipin as well

Coloring the skin. I used a light beige for the 1st layer of the shadowed areas.

Then I added the second layer of light brown to darken it.

I used two colors for the rest of the skin. I blended beige and a lighter beige.

Again I will use the babyoil to blend all of the colors

I used the same color for the eyes as well

I used a white gel pen to clean up the mess. XD

I colored his shirt black and I also used the same method here

So here it is. I think you can make it easier to color your drawing using this method. Just don't used a thin paper to avoid it to bleed out. I think it would be great if you would use a smooth paper and wax based colored pencils.