Nice work! The copy study is really on point. Those values look great!

Some character head line-art assignments.

Looking good! That's very clean lineart!

14 days later

oof pretty much a perfect rendition, hard to tell which one is the original without the text!

Almost 12 hours of work was worth it 👌

9 days later

Using characters’ color palettes [generated on color.Adobe.com] to color in this character copy [of Rinotuna’s drawing] I did a while back.
Characters’ palettes used:
1. Uzui Tengen - Demon Slayer
2. Aerial - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
3. Misa Amane - Death Note
4. Shiver - Splatoon 3
5. Lucy Heartfilia - Fairytail

…I probably should’ve aided the website in picking the color scheme a bit more precisely. That way I could’ve had gotten the characters’ skin tones too.

I personally like Aerial’s color palette the best

Ooof this is one of those exercises which, while I understand why it's here and it IS essential, it's not that fun to do(for me at least) and I'm glad it's not too frequent across the board. You did it well though, shadows seem to align well.

Messing around in Color.adobe.com to make some color palettes.

ooh your color schemes are so aesthetically pleasing!