I think the black inner outlines "eat" the details, it deprives you of many usable pixels. You avoided this issue on the hand and the "belly-plate", but IMO you should more generally "eat" at these outlines when coloring.
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Thanks for the comment, yrizoud! I'll try to work on this - you helped a lot.