/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

hey friends
so I just took a reference, did some construction for it, copied most the linework but wasn't too worried about it looking exact as I was mostly worried about figuring out how to paint.
I'm only half way through the base layer of colour, but I'm using watercolour brushes so I'm thinking that I'm gonna blend what colour I've put down and then work on values (hence why my colouring looks real fucking lazy right now). Would this work? I'm doing this entirely to experiment and figure shit out, so I am next to entirely clueless, but my figuring was: base colour, blended - values on top, then blended again - then detailed colour on top of all of that. I sort've have it in my head where I want the detailed colour (for example darker yellow in the hair to try create the mass, I want the pants to be a yellow/orange, and then more detailed orange over top, etc), and a generalized idea of my lighting so I sort've know where I'm going with this... but I am still very new to colour. Its kind of obvious I tried to add value in with my base colours, which I wonder is a mistake or not. Also, I'm definitely getting around to fixing that hand and the legs lol.

Any help appreciated.