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How Not To Start A Webcomic #40

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Contributed by Risawn of

mcDuffies says:

Well, ok, this is not so badly drawn, but it is slopy colouring and, as it was said in a comic itself - twice (I think we'd get the point if it wasn't), colours are too bright, not at all pleasant to look at. It's a standard pallete of clean colours from MS paint that doesn't look good or natural.
I'm not an expert in colouring but to my understanding, colours on a comic page should match just as well as the clother you wear. Now, you wouldn't wear a combination from this strip, would you.
Varying one or two colours on page, darker or lighter, with adition of neccesary tones to give the impression of other colours existing in scene, gives much more aesthetical look.
There are exceptions, of course, like Regis Loazel. But he draws "Peter Pan". Of course Neverland is gonna be full of bright, harlequin-esque colours. But we don't want every town or country in our comic to look like neverland, do we?
Sadly, although there's many colouring tutorials over the web, not too many of them deal with the subject of matching colours.