Beau's Sketchbook

[beau]

There to much white inside your color.Also think about adding a hint of yellow using layers mode inside the teeth the trick is to play with the opacity of the layers to control the intensity put the white on an other layers when your satisfy merge the layer.Don't be scared to go dark digitally you can alway fix it if you play safe.Just don't start to dark when your near finish it good to play with the adjustment.

You're right, I've noticed that I'm not going dark enough. I think I'm hesitant to go dark and even to use saturated colors because it feels so final and so permanent, almost. I feel like I get more out of studies by only using one layer, though, so I try not to go back over them to correct them after the first pass. I tried to focus on going dark in these studies here, and getting the lines and shapes right in today's-

I think the mouth in the colored image is the only real point I would go back and redo, because her mouth is such a specific form, it's really important in making her recognizable and I didn't take the time to capture it. Jillian Banks is the reference btw