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[Tristan Berndt]

I'm on board with what smrr said.

I'd like to suggest you try out a slightly different approach when painting that might help with some of the problems smrr talked about. This is something I've found very valuable and it makes things a lot easier. It's based on the classical approach to cast drawings. After you've done your drawing, establish what is in light and what is in shadow. Two different values/colors with basically no mid tones. This allows you to setup your basic value relationship and to define your drawing without worrying about different colors or gradients. Then pick an appropriate mid tone and work it into your drawing. When you have 3 basic colors, your forms should be fairly well defined. Now you just need to work in different saturations, hues and gradients. It should be easy because the core values of the image are in place.

Anyway, it's just a suggestion. Keep on working! You're doing good!!