Hey, I'm drawing wooden floor planks and I really can't get them to look good. It feels like the colors of the palette are way too different (I mean that there are not many in-between colors for shading). I'm a total beginner so I really don't know much stuff. By the way I use Piskel for pixel art, it's very simple but it works.

Here's what I have so far. It tiles pretty well but it looks kind of horrendous in my opinion. I tried switching the colors around but I found very few good results. Maybe the planks are too small? Maybe I could make this "fantasy wood" and add weird colors and patterns to it? If so, how???
Any advice will help, even if you're not sure about your advice I'm willing to try stuff out




