Anatomy Painting Practice

Decided to try painting for a bit today!

I started with a sketch and the reference and got to the base colors

After that I noticed the colors didn't blend great so I tried another approach with more color picking and it seemed to help

Once I got everything done, I wanted to show how it looked like with and without blending for the final picture!

I plan to paint some more projects like this to get better at rendering, but for now this is my first one done; If you guys have any suggestions for the next painting I should render, lemme know!