Here are some painting tips, as promised. I hope they will help beginner artists!
Composition
Position of characters on the sheet
Choose the location of your character to be beneficial to the appearance of the art in general, you can accentuate the important places where the viewer should look first by using perspective and composition.
Tone sketch
Set the lights based on references, but adjust to your own, favourable lighting.
Contrasts come in many forms. Contrast in color (warm and cold), values (dark and light), shapes soft and hard, straight and curve, etc.
Less is better. Work on the details of the most important part of your work while cutting down everything else. If you do strong detail in one place, don't forget to add looser detail in another so the viewer's eye can rest. For example: If you are detailing a portrait, don't detail the background as much. Next to a place of high detail, there should be a place of low detail so that the picture does not look overloaded.
All in all, you can twist and break perspective, anatomy and shapes to convey your idea better. No rules are made of steel, they should support your imagination, not restrict it
Anatomy
Break down objects into simple shapes to arrange them in space.
Check references! plasticity comes first, then structure (muscles are important, but proportions and line of movement come first).
Take a photo of yourself, you will be able to understand how to perform your pose naturally. Color/light.
Light is part of the composition, put it in a way that highlights the important things. Air perspective
General rules of composition. From the general to the particular, first prepare the general scene, correctly place contrasts and accents, make everything important in contrast, and take the unimportant into an aerial perspective. (aerial perspective, or atmospheric perspective, refers to the technique of creating an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as paler, less detailed, and usually bluer than near objects.)
When all the points are ready we can start working out the details.
When all the details are finished again it's back to the overall picture, looking at it from a distance. Check if the accents you wanted to draw attention to are working. They should have the highest contrast. Check if the contrast is not created by objects on the edges, where you don't want the viewer to pay attention. For example, if you are painting a portrait then the focus should be on the face and not on the details of the clothes or details in the background. (You can always convert the image to black and white and check the contrast)
Save the stages of your work to check against the initial idea and see what things have changed for better or worse!
