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>>6968172
Just use white or black to lighten or darken. Complimentary colours will neutralize whatever colour you're mixing from. If your current swatch is too intense of a saturation, let's say ultramarine blue, you can desaturate it with an orange (it's opposite). Lightening agents involve titanium white or naples yellow. Paint that lightens the value and changes the hue of the current swatch minimally. A darkening agent involves paint such as mars black or burnt umber.

When you're mixing swatches, try not to use more than 3-4 to get what you want as you'll just pollute the purity of your paint.

Most of this information is useful if you know how to paint.
Watch this video, it's how you should be approaching painting. With an average light color and average shadow color. You can subdivide this by each element in the painting too. A tennis ball will have it's own average light and shadow color compared to a red cup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5QF0q4QqQ&t=122s&ab_channel=MarcoBucci

Also the reality of painting is that you're going to use paint, there's no avoiding it, although it's a bit less than you might think.

>>6816045
Hard Round/Rectangle, Pressure Opacity. Focus on shape and accuracy. Make your brushwork interesting with the a decisive brush. You'll learn a lot.