I couldn't catch you on Discord, but I wanted you to suggest something. Try to work on contrast. Maybe it's just me, but in your recent works all colors are pale, values are pale, especially with this drawing, when you use only cold colors, so it feels like looking through dull lenses, and painting becomes less interesting.



What I suggest, for example, open this drawing in Photoshop or another programm and use Autocontrast. It will look 100 times brighter, and colors more interesting, because some of them are highlighted, especially yellow vs. blue layers on the background. Of course manual contrast or value shifting is much better.



As a side effect of this change you'll notice that shadows would become darkerr and stand out more in cold light that you gave to that picture, which adds to the contrast.