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ATTENTION: I would appreciate feed back, suggestions or links to tutorials, videos or other artists that may help me improve.

Trying to come up with decent workflow for stylized drawing
From left to right:
1 column - dynamic line art
2 column - static 2px lineart
3 column - no lineart at all just sketch

Rows 1 layer for each:
1 drawing
2 flat color
3 soft shade (kind of ambient occlusion)
4 shadow according to light source
5 direct light/highlights

I'm more or less satisfied with result up to 4th row, I put shadow with multiply layer use either base color or slightly shifted to either blue for cool shadow or red for warm one
however when I try to apply light it just doesn't look right, I use overlay for it and it seems it works quite well for bringing up color, and changing temperature if needed, but I cannot exactly point out where and how much it should be illuminated, where exactly mid tones should be ?

Also this one was to test how much effort I need to put in early stages, result is confusing, sketch with some minor refining questionably looks best, simple lineart doesn't work for me here, huge lack of contrast. Dynamic lineart works better but compared to sketch it still requires more attention to AO pass and hard edges (still can't figure out how properly balance hard and soft edges, but this hopefully will come with more experience)

Description
ATTENTION: I would appreciate feed back, suggestions or links to tutorials, videos or other artists that may help me improve.

Trying to come up with decent workflow for stylized drawing
From left to right:
1 column - dynamic line art
2 column - static 2px lineart
3 column - no lineart at all just sketch

Rows 1 layer for each:
1 drawing
2 flat color
3 soft shade (kind of ambient occlusion)
4 shadow according to light source
5 direct light/highlights

I'm more or less satisfied with result up to 4th row, I put shadow with multiply layer use either base color or slightly shifted to either blue for cool shadow or red for warm one
however when I try to apply light it just doesn't look right, I use overlay for it and it seems it works quite well for bringing up color, and changing temperature if needed, but I cannot exactly point out where and how much it should be illuminated, where exactly mid tones should be ?

Also this one was to test how much effort I need to put in early stages, result is confusing, sketch with some minor refining questionably looks best, simple lineart doesn't work for me here, huge lack of contrast. Dynamic lineart works better but compared to sketch it still requires more attention to AO pass and hard edges (still can't figure out how properly balance hard and soft edges, but this hopefully will come with more experience)