Trying to paint better

[PUPILZ]

Yeah Pretty much the orbs are there as

A) study practice for the particular item you are going to create
B) Understanding your material and making you think more on what you are doing
C) Light and darkness with its reflected light you are wanting to use for piece

Then once you do them with the lighting set up you plan to do for piece you can then repaint the material/texture onto your objects being painting.

Wood orb = wood handle for your pike axe
Plain Skin = without hair for stomach and man piggy boobies thing.
Hair = hair
Kinda hair skin orb = like for arms

And if you paint it from just Eyedroping the colors
from you pre colored orbs letting you work more on how you apply then 3d wise on your character and not messing around with colors any more until you get you just like atmosphere and constrast at end to make image pop etc.

But yeah man if you do these orbsand really study what you want for character then when you actually paint character again you'll have the confidence in your strokes and the knowledge of where to apply it.

Then all ya gotta worry about on what actually needs detail and what doesnt need to be over detailed.

Wow, that's fascinating. I assume that you create the orbs to establish your pattern of painting and then just apply it to the final form? Thank you for your input, I am going to give this a shot!