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It's values, try Sketching/painting/drawing something digitally with a white layer on top of your drawing set to "color" blending mode to draw focusing on the values while picking colors randomly.
I would then turn it off, put the drawing in a proper indexed color program like Grafx2 and refine it further
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>>7934755
>Grafx2
oh yeah i forgot about that little gem
>while picking colors randomly.
i think this is the part where it breaks down, since the colour choices are definitely intentional in many of these and the hue choices look completely intentional
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>>7934221
a lot of this emerged from the limited color palettes used by early personal computers/computer monitors, look up example CGA & EGA color palettes then try using them
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>>7934221
So much of color theory is just advanced value control. Once you learn color value then it can you can puke random colors onto the page and they won't fight each other for your brains attention since their values will be within the same range. Just squint you eyes and look at the image. The biggest point of contrast is stone henge. The field in front is just noisy and colorful when you look at, but as a whole it's all relatively within the same value range just adding variation in value.
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>>7935129
It is intentional but if you can't recreate these color palletes naturally then you don't have enough experience and you should gain it through experimentation. Otherwise go find a color pallete, perhaps for the zx spectrum or something.
Good thing about indexed color programs like grafx2 is that you could change the color pallete later down the line