THere are a quite a few excellent books on colored pencils; one expert who has written books is Bev Borgeson (sp?) A recent issue of Rubber Stamper had a great article on colored pencils that would be a good place to start.
The thing to remember is that pencils look good when you layer the colors. There are different looks you can achieve depending on the paper you are using too. Rougher textured paper holds more of the pigment you are releasing from the pencil, so pencils on US White look very different than pencils on Naturals White.
When you are shading, instead of using black or grey to make shadows, use the color opposite on the color wheel than the one you are shading. So with yellow, you would shade with purple. With orange, blue. With red, green.
You can either apply the color very lightly and build up tones by layering, or you can apply colors very densely, then blend with a white pencil over the top or use a blending pencil (you can find them at art stores.) There is one made by Prismacolor.
HTH!
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