Hello, Everyone

I am new to the art scene, I have started with some sketches and tutorials on art, and have progressed to a stage where I am capable of drawing the human form and animals, however colors are new to me and I need a firm understanding of it before I can apply it. could anyone give me an Idea on where I should go or what to do. I have drawn my puppy using color pencils and it is according to most people photographic in nature, they might just be saying that to be nice, however I would like to know more about colors and especially airbrushing, I find airbrushing on computers awesome and the stuff some of the artist do is very inspiring and I wish to mimic them, may be I am aiming to high. sorry if my words are all over the place, I really don't know the technical terms to things but any help would be appreciated.

Kind Regards 

 Theodore.

Make a digital palette. That's just a small file where you paint your initial colours and colour pick from them so that you don't gradually desaturate while working on your image.

Limit your colours. Using a small number of pre-picked colours beforehand can ensure that your image has a better colour range when finished.

Try to understand colours, checking out other people's work is the most direct approach but a little research into colour wheels and colour catagories will help.

Practice, get to understand your software, one advantage of digital is that you won't waste paper so mistakes or inspirational moments won't waste materials.

By the way, airbrush emulation is considered a little old fashioned. In 2D, natural media effects is where it's at. The airbrush tool is very useful but again, if you do some research, you'll discover that more accomplished individuals (I don't mean me) use it as an additional brush rather than a main brush.