Tears of a Clown. (WIP)

[Cobalt Blue]

both character's face features are really low on readbility. if you want to actually portrait them as "happy & sad" without leaving the style you're working with now, i'd either recommend in working in their body language or straigh rework their faces avoiding the use of such a pure black with all these soft, warm colors around. in the latter, you'd need to actually work hard into blending that linework with the rest of the sprite instead of juts throwing it there. such black outlines eat the colors and minor details, not to mention they tend to draw way more attention to them than to the sprite itself due the really huge contrast gap they usually create between other colors.