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Digital coloring techniques are the same as "analog" coloring techniques. I'd recommend doing master studies of academic painters from the 19th century. Science didn't really have a conception of how light worked or what it was (inb4 i'm proven wrong,) so it was left to painters to figure that stuff out. Artists came up with all sorts of batshit crazy ideas about how light works which are all horrible on paper, but fantastic in practice.
In my opinion, you should do a few thorough and accurate (no half-assing it) studies of William Bouguereau's early pieces (digitally- or if you're feeling especially masochistic, with oils) and try to get a feel for how he painted various materials.
Oh, and when I say "get a feel," I literally do mean try to imagine yourself feeling the materials in his paintings. If you have a Kindle or the Kindle app on a tablet/smartphone, buy a copy of The Practice and Science of Drawing for $0.99. It'll explain the mindset artists were in back then (but, fair warning, it won't give you any practical advice. The whole book is basically an angry artist ranting on how every painter is stupid except for him.)
tl;dr/conclusion learn how to paint color realistically and just dial that knowledge back a notch when you're working on cartoony stuff.
One more thing. The best book on drawing IMO is The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed.
mass drawing is basically drawing with values instead of lines. or even just large areas of blacks like in Sin City. the idea being that we don't perceive the world as lines, but as masses of color and value.
i made this quick sketch to illustrate more clearly (ugh i hate it already). the sphere is the general idea, and i included the figure drawing to give an idea how it might be used in a more refined way. the basic idea is to learn how to use large brushes and make forms, not shapes like with line drawing. if you had to break drawing into two categories it would be line drawing and mass drawing. you might also notice that both my line drawings and my mass drawings include hints of each. they work best in concert (well, i think so anyway).
i suggest you give The Practice and Science of Drawing a read. it is one of the best academic books on drawing out there. its a dry read for sure, but the lessons learned in this book are invaluable. its like a how to for drawing in the academic style. give it a read. its only 99 cents if you have a kindle.
anyway like i said, keep it up!