After you're done with tree week, there was this exercise we did a few times in class to learn how other people use color, and I think you should try it too... We'd take a bunch of drawings and illustrations and chose a simple color palette out of it, finding the five or so colors that explain the range of colors in that picture. We had to match them up with color chips from the paint store, so it'll be much easier for you since you can just use the eyedropper in Photoshop. You should do a bunch of them and look at the colors that you pick out vs. the colors you're picking right now. It'll really sharpen your eye for color. We would also take the colors from one picture and apply them to another that we were painting. Since you've been doing matte paintings, you might want to do the same color range thing to a bunch of photographs after you do illustrations.
I think I understand what you're saying...try to use colors from photographs, for example on my cartoon tree, so that it looks a little less like a cartoon?
Even in cartoons, people may be using the same range of hues, but they are tempering the colors in ways that you aren't yet. To make your colors more sophisticated, take a look at what other people have done and see what they've done right... Take a look at this picture from flickr
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