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Hello,
Ingres was a master draftsman and his paintings are very, very linear. You seem to work on white canvases. Ingres used coloured canvases to work on. It's not only the use of shadows that makes a background convincing. The blue that you use is very strong. When you weaken a color it will tend to move to behind in its appearance. When an object comes to the front it will have stronger colours in its appearance. So, to make a background appear like it's in the right place the old masters used weak colours, very brownish or gray.
If you want to study Ingres, maybe you can copy details of his drawings to get the right feel.
Which oil-colours do you use ? The choice of pigments is very important to have a balanced approach in the colouring.
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