My Current Fustration

I know I said I wouldn't post anything till I finished it, but I miss posting things and I didn't want to do another photo post. I wanted to redraw something that I had done in the past. Guess I wanted to prove to myself that I had improved somewhere since it doesn't seem like it most of the time. I have the bad habit of when I have a way of doing something, I won't change even if I'm shown a better way. So I know my coloring suffers the worst for my stubbornness. This is what I have so far..


Knowing that I have a harder time with orange then any other color you think I would have avoided this but its what I had colored the original..


This was drawn nine years ago. At the time I thought this was the greatest thing ever, now I just flinch when I see it. Unfortunately I'm flinching at the one I'm working on now too. I just don't know what to do with my shading. I know where it goes, but when I put my layers down it never looks right, they are either too close in color or to far. Oh well, I will still get it done eventually and then I won't touch orange for awhile, lol.