Vector colours

I dont really do vector designs much, mainly because I’m not very good at them. But I do try and practise a fair bit.

I’m fine at tracing an image but when it comes to choosing a colour I can’t seem to ever make it look at all realistic.
I use photoshop to get the colour values from the original image but it never quite looks right. I know that normally theres shadows and stuff not just one solid colour but I’m hopeless at shadows and gradient mesh too.

Does anyone have any tips for colouring vectors or anywhere I can go to get some tips? Most tutorials I’ve found about vector art are mostly about tracing…

thanks

hmm, dope sig.
I think there was a tutorial on vector line art on this forum, which featured a skin tone pallette.
would love to see your work sometime…