/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3990778
The problem is you just made darker browns, not shadows. You have no warms to balance the cools off, everything is a middle value in the face. Look at this example, see how the cool blues and purples are not a dark brown, but read as that in the eye, when viewed from a distance, even with loose paint strokes and washes? And see how they're balanced against warm colors? Art isn't photography, it's the illusion of life, and sometimes getting there isn't what you think. Study paintings like this, too see how often colors mix in the eye, not on the paper. (The image I'm attaching is what I think you're aiming for.) Watercolor isn't so much mixing the color on the paper, it's mixing it in the eye, by using transparent layers. You're using opaque concepts in a transparent medium, if that makes any sense.