A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Or A Guide

There are two Guide followers in the basic set, who keep you safe in a couple of squares. Here is the first one.

I am posting retrospectively and looking back at this guy I realize what went wrong. Way too much white pigment. The end result is pale and chalky with the richness of the colours gone. Damn. And I painted more than one like this. Seems that my learning curve is very wavy indeed.