advice on shading/coloring or general painting techniques

[severe scaffold]

also any process on how to simplify/make the process of painting go faster

i spent alot of the time just playing with colors

non tattoo ver

[small crag]

You need more contrast. Rn the back for the most part looks pretty monotonous.

[severe scaffold]

will take into account mucho gracias

[true frost]

Your Shadows are way too light and your light way too beide

Bride*

If you Look between the inspo and your picture you can directly See the differences of your colors, i tried it both way with the colors of the inspo and yours

I guess- you should make your Shadow darker and little more yellow Like, cause your skin IS pretty yellow

[true frost]

Secondly, the normal skin IS too light too, make a tid Bit darker. Next Thing, you Put light on places where isn't light, between the inspo and your picture you can See the has the light source only on the Ride Side. The left Side of His Body only seems brighter because the normal skin color is Showing in the shadoe

[severe scaffold]

ah thats really helpful

tysm

i was coloring on night light and i never bothered to fix it thats why it ended up slightly yellow

but the advice u gave is really good

thank you

[true frost]

Maybe this helps you then :3

They are Just some color Palettes, But i personally use stuff Like that too for coloring ^^

[severe scaffold]

thanks i dont have much experience with coloring or color theory

saving these

[small crag]

Fyi the last pic is a bunch of different blending modes. Which is really cool imo and id love to figure out how to do stuff like that sometime

[severe scaffold]

this any better?

the shadow feels a bit dull

does anyone know how to fix that

(i turned off night light)

[true frost]

That Looks way better

But i some places Like around the Jeans and where the arm and Torso meet are still a little Bit darker