Hello!

So, I have some project going and I am drawin lots of houses with their building processes included. This is a WIP as you can see:

Starting from the left, the middle one is a process of building a base (finished), middle one is supposed to be final (wip), and last one is somwhere in the middle wjhere the structure is being built (wip). So, what do you think? i think I must fix the little sand hill on the first stage. The main problem is, that there two types of background the dark (dirt/grass) and the bright yellowish one (sand):

 

So, all those yellowish lines must be clearly seen on sand texture also, but I don't want to lose the colors and shapes I already have. Any tips/tricks?

i like how this is nonconformist stuff. not the usual blocks but something more real.

i don't know what you're planning on doing with windows and stuff, but so far it looks nice. the yellow roof is slanted right?

couple of things though, the porch looks pretty worn out for such a new building, and i'm missing some shade

This looks interesting inkspot. I would love to see the structures placed on the ground tiles (both). I suspect that your colors are too close in hue to show much details in the final project. The shadow engine could help, but might just be overkill and not worth the effort. SimCity didn't use shadows for a long time and the player is never distracted by it. I would concentrate on the coloring of the structure which entail a lot more attention to detail and adjust the tiles and theirs color to conform and contrast to the structures (and their yellow lines), not the other way around as you seem to think...........ramblin........

I can see it just fine, but they sorta blend into the grass and dirt BG.

What are the black shapes?