I made a couple of mistakes. If you look, the top "head" section of the snake has different colored spots than the rest of the body that is "naturally" painted. This is because I am stupid. Here is what happened: I painted the board a light blue as a base (this helps colors be a little brighter). When I painted the head section, I painted around the spots, leaving them the light blue, first with burnt sienna and then over that with vandyke brown. I then painted the spots with naples yellow. The blue and the yellow gave the base of the spots a lovely greenish-yellow color. I was in love with myself when that happened. It is a perfect starting point for the spots.
But then came the stupid part: It took forever to paint around the spots twice. Sooooo I thought to myself, "I know! I will just paint the burnt sienna over the entire section and then paint around the spots with the vandyke. Brilliant, I shall save myself time!" Well it did save me time, but it also covered up the blue to the point that the yellow couldn't interact with it and ta-da yellow-brown spots. :(
However, I am looking on the bright side, the browner spots look like they are more apart of the snake's body, which is good.... that is all I got. Yay for color theory and me ignoring it.
I also ended up shrinking the first color stripe. It looked like it was cutting the snake off a little bit too much up top. I think it was a good decision.
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