I don't really know, save for I lean towards natural or less neon coloration.

I'm bad at this myself. I have a character I haven't "seen" color for for years.

I take one of a few options:

1. Adapting real-world animal colour patterns - for example "Hey, that dart frog looks awesome, but I like dusky dolphin markings" and combining them or just tweaking the patterns to fit your character.
2. Naturalistic colour schemes that work with the "where the critter would live if it were a real animal" - often with some sort of highlight or display markings
3. Strong contrasts - dark tones plus highly saturated or bright tones.

Ah, thank you! I'm going to have to experiment with those options, then. Hopefully I can get the hang of adding color to things soon!

I just have a huge folder on my computer where I save color pallets I come across. They help with character design a lot o:

https://i.gyazo.com/1af761f0501872e.....08af026561.png

Oh, thank you so much for sharing! 'v'

Try to use complimentary colours unless you want things to stick out. You'll have to balance the colours properties but I know blue brown yellow red hues can work together, and purples brown yellow. But then again. I only draw dragons. ..

Some characters have a darker scale colour and a Lighter tint on their fronts or underbelly.
It's all really thinking about what YOU want to have in your character. Because markings can change a lot.