I think I prefer your traditional over digital art XD I really like the traditional ones.
Something I love doing is combining traditional and digital together. Meaning, using traditional line art/little shade + digital base color + little shade.
here's an example of what I'm talking about XD
http://ashjackson.net/images/works/flight.jpg
It has digital colors + traditional line art. Maybe something worth experimenting with since you can do both
Color pencil shading also has a nice texture so something to think about too.