yeah Ben pretty much has you covered. you're getting the multiple circle effect by using a hard brush with some opacity. by using a selected path as Ben described you're giving yourself the lines that you don't want to color outside of ... if that makes sense. This way you can use the brush in one quick stroke with the mouse. There is also select> feather, this would let you make a selection and then give it blurry edges rather than just being a hard shape of color. I have a wacom tablet but it's more to simulate painting. It is to take advantage of pen pressure and the zillion brush effects that you can get with PS. It's more for blending color than making a consistent gradient of color - the latter being more useful for automotive art. You'll notice that people who don't do what Ben does, have some sort of outlines on their cars for a "toon" effect. This is how they color inside the lines. Somehow, the key is, give yourself some boundary that allows you to make one pass of the mouse to color a large section and if necessary, remove what you don't want, or put something on top of it on another layer to cover it up. Then again, keep in mind that however you go about it, is part of what makes it your style.
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