Hi, it's me again. I think a lot of your colors are honestly pretty good, but I did make some tweaks to the base colors. I increased the saturation by a little bit to give her skin some more life, since the mood of the piece seemed more sunny and cheerful. Of course, if you don't like how saturated I made it, feel free to disregard. For rendering, you of course want to pick your light source. Based on the shine you put in her eyes, I figure the light is coming from the right, possibly above her. With the light source chosen, I created a couple layers: one for shadows, and one for highlights. I set the shadow layer to the Multiply blending mode, at about 50% opacity, and I used a mildly-saturated, mildly-tinted red color to shade (meaning the red color is roughly in the middle of the color wheel, neither too bright, too dark, too saturated, or too desaturated). I set my highlight layer to the Color Dodge blending mode, at around 75% opacity, and used both a saturated orange color and a heavily desaturated (borderline white) yellow. Lastly, I added a little red trim along the edges of the shadows on her skin. This is called sub-surface scattering. It's what happens when light hits out skin, bounces around in our blood, and comes back out, creating this red glow. It's most visible on the edges of shadows. Adding it makes her shadows really pop and gives more life to her skin. Last tip: while you're working, or before you even add color to your painting at all, try to work with black, white, and grey. By working in monochrome, you can see if parts of your image art hard to read, and where you need contrast. What I do is I create a layer at the very top, set it to the Color blending mode, and fill the entire layer with white. This turns my painting into a black-and-white image. I can then toggle the layer on and off to check if my painting is readable. When I did this to your drawing, I could more or less read it clearly, but I I felt like the contrast between her hair and her top could have been stronger, so I made the top a little brighter and a little more saturated. This made the top, hair, and skin easier to distinguish. I hope this helps! | Artwod Feedback