When do you know you have too many colors?
Hey all, I've been into art ever since primary school, that's what I studied in both high school and university both as a bachelor and then as a masters degree. I've always dreamed of having the biggest, baddest set of any colored medium, mostly watercolor pencils and regular colored pencils, but a few years ago, unexpectedly even for me, I really got into comic books so, naturally, I decided I wanna dip my toes in comic book coloring. I immediately ordered the 168 color set of the Ohuhu alcohol markers and ever since I've tried to use them as intended. Here's what I found out - that's way to many color options, some of them are so close that I find them almost indistinguishable between one another. Same with watercolor pencils - the biggest set I've gotten my hands on was I think 120 colors - again, way too many options. I've been trained in more classical mediums like pencils, charcoal, chalk and gouache and, for instance, when I'm using gouache I don't really need more than 10-15-20 colors at most because I can mix and blend them to my liking and get the results I need quite easily. My girlfriend got a cheap set of, I think, 32 colors alcohol markers and I've managed to use them more efficiently than my own set. I've always been more of a concept/study/graphics artist and not so much a painter, if that's of any significance.
So... my question to you is - do you ever feel like you have way too many options in your color pallete? Have you found yourselves in an option paralysis situation? Am I going crazy or it's not just me in that situation?