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When the light is too diffuse it's really hard to capture the values and colors correctly, and the hue shifts and values are soooo subtle.

Dude, I hear you.

If you're not so much of a purist, you can try slapping a curve Adjustment layer (assuming you're working on PS) on the original photo, make the darkest values darker if the model is too light, or make the lightest lighter if otherwise.

Sometimes when the values are hardly shifting, it's hard to capture the form!

And man. Your portrait wasn't *that* bad!

Hey John, thanks for the critique!

Yeah, I think I'll do adjustments on my next studies. And I also think that I should take I step back and make my values and brushwork better before tackling color once again. Those studies served well to make me understand what I should focus now. My paintings are very sloppy and I can't define the edges and make a smooth blending yet.

I was trying out color because I've got to the lesson about it on Learn Squared, I wasn't really confident to do it but I gave it a shot anyways, and it made clearer that I should go back. Anthony Jones really stressed out that the colors won't work if the values are bad.

Back to the studies now :)