Coloring problem!

I don't seem to get the way colors work, for example, when I want to add shadows to a color, I just get a darker color of the primary color and add the shadow, and I know that that's not how I'm supposed to do it, but I don't know how.

Good question. I've had this problem when I started coloring. Well, most people have.

As a rule of thumb, where something has a shadow on it, the shadow is usually not only a darker version of that color, but also a less saturated version. Highly lit places are more saturated.

That's not all there is to it, though.

You're gonna find This thing extremely useful.

Edyrem wrote:

This thing

This guy's knowledge is basically a super-fast shortcut to hella scientific wikipedia-ing.

Why thank you, I try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPz8Xyt3z-w
This one is pretty usefull too.

^ I thought of that one too, thanks for posting it

Thanks guys, u da best!