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[Pinshivic]

Whats up berry, what I'm seeing as your main issue are values and cool/warm relationships, try to see more of colors for what they truly are, you are putting a lot of saturation on colors that should be grey, putting warms where there should be colds and vice-versa and you seem to not be taking into consideration color relativity overall, which is one of the most hard things to do accurately. I would recommend reading about the topic of color relativity. Also keep painting on diffused white light situations to get good at playing with local color and value, don't do roughs try to get them as finished as possible then transition in different types of light and light color. Keep going!

thanks for your response! i've always struggled a lot with colors, and despite having read lots on the subject, i'm terrible with executing it. that comes with more practice, i suppose! i read somewhere that you should try to limit yourself to a certain amount of time when studying, but i'm not sure what the rationale behind it is besides getting you to do more, quantitatively and not overworking yourself. do you think there's more value in trying to get things more finished? i'm afraid i'll be trying to fight too many battles at once... i will read up on color relativity for sure! for now my main goal is to see values and hues more accurately, which is something that will hopefully develop the more studies i do.

That's exactly what the diffused white light is for, it's the most simple way to see color for what it really is, do some still lifes in that setting of simple objects, but try to get the form and shadows as close as possible, limiting yourself to some time to study it's good to get to the point of what you want to achieve and not mess around doing anatomy when you're studying color to put an example, depends on the person also, seems that you are a beginner with lighting and colour and it takes a lot of observation, that you are not getting when you are doing rough stuff, so my point is doing more by doing less, but being sure you're making it right. Again diffused white light is the perfect setup to start, then adding ambient light and main light with color. Hope it makes sense. Good Luck!