tips: applying digital colours

Just a quick tips sheet on applying digital colours. There are two tips on here that are specifically only for beginners:
"don't use gradients" because beginners think that applying gradients is doing the work for them. They can be used and applied stylistically, but most of the gradients I've seen are painfully obvious and bad looking; remember, nearly all shortcuts are obvious and lower the quality of your work.
"work from light to dark It doesn't actually matter if you work from light to dark or dark to light, but most people beginning CGing for the first time come from a background in traditional art and as a result this method is most familiar to them and sticking with it can make the transition more smooth and easier :3

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