Twindragonsmum, one thing that really helped me was KoishiiKitty’s painting tutorial. I was having a terrible time learning how to layer paint and kept losing details of the carving because I was caking on too much paint . . . and still not getting the colors I wanted! 🙄 Koishii’s tutorial showed a different approach to the one I had been using; I tried it, and discovered that it worked a lot better for me. Maybe it might be useful to you too?