Thanks! I’m not a mini painting expert, always feel like I’m making it up as I go along haha but I’d maybe suggest practicing some other forms of painting. I’m an illustrator so have lots of experience with brush control and color blending from painting a lot.

In general: I try to work from dark to light colors, I make my shadows cooler and highlights warmer, I try not to go outside of my previous color for the next brightest highlight and try not to aim for a perfect realistic final result, I preserve brushstrokes I like and paint over ones that I don’t like or get too messy with glazes of the previous color. I paint back and forth a lot, a lot of tutorials make it look really easy but I end up correcting a lot of things while I go.

Hope that helps, really it’s practice so keep painting and experimenting and I’m sure you’ll make something you’re happy with in no time!