Bathing in the Woods (digital painting)

[liralith]

It's definitely rough right now, but I was wondering if I could get some opinions on how to really get some nice color and definition going.
Any and all help is really happily accepted.

[IndigoNight]

I would start blocking color into the background, keeping lighting in mind. I find that if the background isn't done early on, the subject matter tends to look copy and pasted into the piece. I would also wait to start defining details until colors are blocked in.

[SpacePossum]

I'd have started with the bg first. But shadows and highlights can be put in later. Thankfully, digital work isn't so hard to change later.