too many colors, too much banding, and really poor color choice. try to make the entire outline black and recycle some colors

Color problem?

I pillow shaded red and move into bright orange. I use a few secret techniques that makes it look like it has alot of color

You didn't use a secret technique, it has a LOT of colors.

Red - 7 shades
Gray - 4 + 1(black)

The outline is really good. But you're not supposed to pillow shade it and gradient it just because it's inorganic (metal)

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What's with all the unnecessary lines?

Some are metal plates lining, some are tatoos, and some are metal plate with odd color lining to make it look flashy. the first design scale the color on the light areas and pillow shaded red on the dark areas with 1 exception. This tank design lack that unique shading style with a few weird lines to make it pop. this last design take away the wierd colors, and simplify everything.





Suzy since you advised it what do you think?

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This is what looks good to me. It not always about staying simple. The requester loved the first version of the tank so I'm animating this regardless but I figure I would at least try to make it right. The tank was draw in a style to make it really explode off the screen and I mean really explode. Just because I use many color or it bright doesn't mean it's automatically bad. Sometime you just have to break a few rule to realize something. It's busy, bright, colorful which shouldn't always be one sided.