Trying to paint better

[Chiritsu]

Hi All,

I created this character for practice. If someone could please check it out and help me get it to pop, I'd greatly appreciate it. What I did was paint the entire thing in grayscale then use overlays to color it. I find that I get distracted when starting with color and lose values and shape quickly, but I still find myself in that place after overlaying color.

I was just doing a quick paintover to see what I could notice and I realized that if you do it in colour or grey scale first it shouldn't really matter. What I noticed was that your shadows and lights feel too even around the form which is what makes it look flat. I'm also unsure of where your light source/sources are from..

Here's a rough paint over.. I hope it makes sense?
I mostly just roughed in some more shadows and colour for your character since the grey scale makes it look a little washed out :x