*almost* got the colors where I wanted them to be without color balance
but I'm finding a new issue with my drawings to be that I feel they are too busy, in terms of brushwork, I need to work on placing perhaps less of them, or thinking about where to blend them.
On the flame, I drew with a flat brush and sharply cut out from it using other similar flat brushes and sometimes plain deleting bits with the lasso tool, and that's my favorite part in this painting. I'll try to really smoothen out my brushwork a little on next pieces, but it's pretty challenging for me