I like this, it's very helpful
Is this how you start a scene that is going to have characters added? And are you doing all the different colors on seperate layers?
Well it's more for doing color sketches before you do a big piece..but than you can turnaround and use it for your final. It works for doing complex scenes...but it's a good rule of thumb for lots of stuff...hmm maybe I need to write all this down...when I work with scanned pencils..I put the pencils on a layer and multply them in layers and color under it..wth bkgrounds I think light to dark works as an overall themes..but when I color figures..I work from the 2nd darkest color to light building towards the highlight and than I put in the really dark shadows last to make contrast...hmmm...Ahm loopy today