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To fill in a color easily, use the Magic Wand tool (W), go to the outline layer, and make a selection of a part of the image you want to fill with color by clicking on the white space that you want to color in. The black lines of the outline will prevent the selection from spilling over to other parts of the image. Then, with the selection in place, go to the layer that you want the color to be on, use the Paint Bucket tool, and fill the selection with color.
For parts of the image—such as the hair or bunched up fabric—where the outline is not simply a border but also helping to emphasize the texture of the particular part of image—such as the direction and flow of hair or the way fabric creases—then you may run into difficulty making selections with the Magic Wand tool, which will often want to grab the entire outline in the selection of the black lines of the outline are drawn too close to each other. In such cases, we’ll have no choice but to either color everything in by hand with a hard brush. Or we can use the Pen Tool (P). With the Pen Tool, we draw a path around the hard-to-fill-in parts of the image and then right click->Fill Path…
It will take quite a while, but once you finally filling the image in with color, it will look something like this.
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