Comment on “E8”

It looks like the body of the tankard of beer (the part that's not the handle) was drawn by doing a gray-gold gradient across a circle shape. The problem with that is that there's no distinction between the tankard and the beer; it's just the two colors mixed together. Fixing that should avoid the lollipop look. Try a gray rim and then fill the inside with gold only, i.e. a circle in a circle, the outer one gray, the inner one gold.

The above might require making the tankard a bit larger to get the effects across, but it may be that once the container and its contents are visually differentiated, the contrast will be stark enough to stand out even at small sizes.

Hope it helps.