03-18-2016, 02:38 PM
Hey man! Your still life is looking really nice! I def recommend doing some studies of film stills to improve your colour picking. Alternatively studying the masters is a really good way to go. Try to pick the colours by hand first, then colour pick using the eyedropper and see how your colours differ. This should help you out! I think part of your problem is with tone - in your imagination piece, everything is looking very mid-tone at the moment. Try to also vary your hues across your piece - at the moment you're looking at only a few different hues, whereas you would see more colour variation in real life. If you look for some analysis of Bougereau's paintings, you can see how he uses different colour tints to create realistic skin tones and some of this applies to other paintings too. Hope that helps: Keep up the great work!