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Been grinding away at this for hours but the coloring just looks so off. Also made a mistake and rendered the face too early on. Im probably going to ditch this and repaint it at another time. In the meantime, what is the issue here? I was attempting to draw a desert scene with the character in the shade. Warm light hitting her front and left side. I looked at some paintings for similar desert scenes and shadows and even color picked but it just looks so wrong. Any tips? As a side note what’s a good place for immediate critique? Discord?
>>3742397
I like it. Next time I would imagine the leaves as masses with form rather than paint each leaf. Also in general there doesn’t seem to be any form, it’s just colors. The lighting situation in the ref is not ideal for that though.
>>3742235
I can’t tell what this is as all. Is it a road? I think for large swaths of color try using dry on wet and wet the entire surface of the road first. Then when you lay down your brush strokes it won’t have a glazing effect where the strokes overlap. There are some great YouTube references for various techniques.