Balcony - 6 and Mikado

This picture shows you how i work almost mechanically when building up areas of one shade..to stop it being too tedious, I work in blocks. I find that keeping my mind on what i intend the finished picture to look like, keeps me going! The result that I'm looking for here is to replicate the depth of shade you can see below the guy in the baseball cap's arm...to do this I first put down a layer of dark blue..then over that goes blue...then red, then yellow ochre then perhaps green...then a further layer of blue or red.

Below is the finished poster I designed to publicise the Mikado. I've produced artwork for the Rose Hill Musical Society for four years now.