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Top Pixel Art - January 2021 (#2)
@StecenM: First of all thanks for the effort - really appreciate it.
@railslave: thanks, pal! appreciated - unfortunately, all I can do now is to throw here my old stuff :/
hope I will be able to back on track soon...
@tecnologgamer: thank you kindly sir
The difficulty in offering feedback here [aside from feedback being filtered through a subjective lens] is not understanding which aspects of the colour choice and rendering are intentional, which are blindspots, and which are fixed or redrawn in the updated later version. Feel free to correct/inform me.
From a 1:1 view the water, skin and hair rendering are masterful, clearly a lot of different tones used to anti-alias certain surfaces. Spatial depth on display with the hills and foliage is very well done. The purple tone transitioning to orange hues in the very top cloud is an interesting aesthetic choice, ditto the desaturated cyan leading into red(!) in the cloud below it. There are parts of this current picture that seem a little unfinished (the foliage on the far right jumps from mid-value to near-black, the clouds and sky being dithered in spots and being left as clusters of clashing value elsewhere), but that leads back into the difficulty mentioned before.
I'd like to see the later version of the picture one day. The 'more consistent' descriptor makes it sound like it ultimately loses something in the transition, so being able to compare the two as a before-and-after could be educational.
Just wow, arguably your master workx, for me. It all is tho
Beautiful piece! The ligting in the clouds and on the water is incredibly realistic and very pleasing to look at.
@gennoveus: thanks! indeed, a lot of time - too much :D
@wakimojo: thanks a lot man! aprreciated :)
@jeffSturm4nn: :) not really but thanks!
@Kurz: thanks - It was a challenge, glad you like it.
Ha ha - on the next frame (this is just first frame of an animation you know? ;) )
@Theoden: Thank you!
@pixelcharpi: Thanks!
@Wrex: thanks a lot!
Holy smokes the work that must have gone into this! Really fantastic piece.
this is really beautiful, very poetic textures and color spectrum
Oh nice. I like the water here.
By the way, could you turn her a bit to the front 
This is so amazing. Especially love the bounce light on her hands and lower face... the use of blue on her back, and the use of purple in the water... the wet hair and how it blends cool and warm. And that's not even factoring in the arcane color limitations...
I wish I could see this on an amiga monitor. If you ever feel OK to share the exe... I'd love to try that, at the very least on an emulator. This is a work of art + engineering.