Darn, you were quicker on the draw than me. I had been working on a fairly similar Monty Python reference. At least I lost to a gorgeous looking tile.

Looks I'll have to come up with something a bit different.

Calling this done, until there's a neighbor.

@gawrone; looks epic!

If I'm understanding things correctly then tile 70 is available. Could I please claim #70?

Vikings!!! Wonderful! Will the ship have a stereotypical striped sail and shields on the sides?

If it’s some kind of a shore maybe that pole could have a lantern hanging so the vikings can find their way to plunder much easier :)

Since I’m continuing it down, please let me know how you want to end the water edge? Falling off as a waterfall? Frozen with hanging icicles? Fade out into a myst?

Thank you for the compliments.

Yes, this is getting much better! :D

As for the continuation I think you mostly need to work on the right edge, add some of that darker green to break up the line between the two tiles.
I'm glad you're persisting and making something nice out of this!

@gawrone; you totally nailed it with that dragon's texture. Amazing work! Can't wait to see more from you...

Wow! Always nice to read compliments from someone I look up to. I've only tried to use everything I've learned in the previous collab - also from you :)

Please show us the Shrek tile already! The anticipation is killing me.

I do yeah, have done for the last 3 years! That hadn't even crossed my mind :O

It's a neat stone but they've put it right next to some quite depressing municipal buildings hehe

I have a suggestion to put it into the collab image! That water looks sooo realistic.

@Gecimen: Nice! Now there's two floating monk heads up for grabs in the collab

Sorry missed this; yes you can!

I understand, but I still want to thank you!

Looks nice, is it possible to make the left corner a bit darker as if the water is getting deeper, to slowly blend with my #50?

Ok, let me modify it

Wow! What a lovely tile.

You are doing great!

1) At this point you already could start the process of cleaning. The most important thing here is all those higly contrasting singular pixels. If you have so many of them, but they are not consistetly used in some sort of order (to be interpreted as a stylistic choice), they just look very noisy and unpleasant. The most disturbing are those brown ones on the bottom grass part. But also the green ones sprayed here and there on the road are not perfect. You don't need them. In this collab already you can find few very different solution examples, presented by different artists, on how to make grass blades that look better than random single pixels. Take inspiration. Also you have some single pixels that look very unintentional on demon's horns and legs. I think that the stone orb could stay like that, becasue this gives it a kind of granite texture, but clean its outline a bit - especiallly on the bottom.

2) Fix the isometry of the demon. The eyes the horns and the nipples follow the grid of 2:1 line, but the feet and the belt are straight and elbows and knees are only slightly leaned. Try to keep it consistent but don't be super rigid about it. Try to add some curvature thicknes (to the straight line of the belt for example), otherwise the demon constructed only from the 2:1 lines will look flat, like cutted out of paper.

3) Something happened to the flute during your edits, and now it is completely unreadable. Or if you decided it to be a different instrument try to make it more clear what is it.

Gawrone gives a pretty good rundown of things to fix. I did and edit to adress some of the points. Because a lot of the readability of the demon got way noisier since your last update that I thought was actually pretty clean.

Single pixel noise can be used for texture, and sometimes it can work well enough like in grass, but often it just makes it hard to see what something is supposed to be. In the edit I tried to approach a smooth stone texture with cracks and bumps and where it need texture a little bit of dithering might be more appropriate. Likewise the aa on the demon doesn't really work in my opinion because the purple and especially the green both don't read as darker than the red.

I also wonder is it a flute or is the demon consuming an infant like Cronus?

I also want to alert you to the fact that you've introduced several different shades of browns in the image.

Keep going though, you've made big strides already and this type of gradual refinement is what pixel art is all about and how all of us learnt the skill to begin with!

@Gawrone: While the characters show excellent sprite work they are at least a head too tall for the scale, especially compared to your horse. I would consider angling the waterfall In an isometric angle.

But the pixel work looks excellent, the bard is fantastic.

In advance, if anyone asks me about the horse on the roof.

WIP. Slow but steady progress

@Gecimen: Your tile came out looking awesome! Really nice work!

@Nitbe: Super cute!

@gawrone: Love how your tile is looking so far! The characters read so well, and when you adjusted their heights it blends so much better with the other tiles. I'll work some more on #46 tomorrow, been to tired after work the past 2 days. But, I'm thinking of extending the water a bit further to the left. I hope it doesn't mess anything up for you with the composition and the waterfall.

@Christoballs: Looking real good! These edge tiles take a little longer to work on with the bigger size.

@Gen_void: It's coming along really nicely. I would still listen to the advice from Reo and gawrone about single pixel noise. I see there's still some on the ground and on the demon (random yellow pixel on demon body for example). Also, when you do outlines, it's better if you keep each line to one colour I think, and make them brighter on the sides where the light source comes from. When you make it back at the edges and lighter in the middle like that it gives the demon a "fuzzy" look which isn't great when you're working with such a small size. So, look at the outlines of the demon on Reo's edit for a good example. But you are definitely making improvmenets, and we can tell you're putting in some hard work.