/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2651152

>... how do you suggest I do so?

Well like I said, what I do is fully desaturate my drawing. IE to full greyscale. Usually if something looks 'foggy' it isn't because your colors are off as much as your values are all too similar. Going based on what you described I'm willing to bet if you desaturated your problem drawing the value range would be between 3 and 6, and you just need to include some darker darks and lighter lights to make it pop.

If you desaturate fully and still can't regonize values intuitively you just need to do some practice exercises, IE manually creating value scales like pic related, or trying to identify where a color would fall on a value scale without using a color picker. Once you've got the hang of black and white try the same process in color.

>>2481770

Generally it means make it a little higher contrast.

If you look at a value scale in black and white, and your work is sitting almost entirely between 3 and 6, someone telling you to push your values is telling you to have more stuff in the 1/2 8/9 region generally. Or you might just be all 1 to 4 and you need some lighter values/vice versa.
0 and 10 are generally reserved for points you really want to draw attention to.