It just may be the way I work, but don't sweat the colors yet. You don't yet know what you need. Say later on in the process the house ends up being made out of bricks, then this color works. However if you end going with painted siding or stucco then this red color is horrible. I would put the effeot into laying out the scene first, the details and coloring come later in spurts. As it looks now the roof does not everhang the walls which give it an amateurish look look. The door seems too thin for the wall space so perhaps a portico or small step up area to beef up the entrance which is the main focal point of a house would help tremendously, particularly with such a wide path. The roof could use a chimmney/skylight/santasleigh, anything to break up the tile monotony. Also consider breaking up the box a bit. the roof overhang will do so but also a potrusion of some sort like say a bay window. You say you would like a tree, consider the right side of the house to visually stop the sometimes inevitable "leaning down" look that iso creates. This will give you a division of 3 on that side which looks good (2 windows and a tree), smaller trees could be placed in the front of the house or by the front door (colummn substitutes) this would also help to break the box. The grass, dog, people leave for later. architectural features first. The house will then tell you what it wants.......more later, get to work

Update

Made the roof overhang, added the bricks, steps, made the way to the house more narrow and made a chimney



I will definetly change the color of the roof


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I did what you told me (I think this was what you meant with the bricks), and changed the roof color. Thanks sensei jalonso

Weekend tomorrow yay! I will have more time to pixel, can't wait to add the trees and details

I like this brick style. :D But if you want more realistic and less cartoony
st0ven has a brick tut on Zoggles that
you might want to use. :)

That's a very nice tutorial, and the site has other tuts as well, thanks! This will be a great help in my learning.



I'm now in phase two of the work, the details! But...I'm stuck with the trees,  they look...stupid. I would like them to have a realistic look. After I figure it out I will try your cool suggestions.




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I want realistic kind of trees, the ones where you see the branches and the leaves on them in a sort of transparent way. They would take away monotony to the scene more than the round and coniferous ones I think. I haven't seen the twisted though.

Edit: I officialy suck at trees




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I did the trick in the edges of the bricks.

Aaaaaah, mmm maybe. But I will leave them as they are for the time being, I'm fighting with the trees right now

Speaking of trees




 

The trees are getting somewhere, I just don't like the harsh line of dither on the side of the bark

omgwtflololo true. Thanks.

@setzer: I thought it would give a trunky look. But looking at it, I could soften it.

When I finish this piece, I will give credit to everyone who have helped me, seriously

when are trees smaller than bungalos?

hm this is just an idea, but aren't there white lines in-between each brick for the uhh.. sticky stuff that holds the wall together?  cause right now it looks like a toy house with bricks simply stacked onto one another.  and as someone mentioned the plastic-y highlights just add to the toy look.  I know you're focusing on the trees right now, but I just thought I'd give you some c/c for later, since I can't really help you with the trees at all.
Yupp.. that's all, keep at it, there's been great improvement since the first  try

Update



-No more plastic-y look! Or so I hope. The good thing is that now I know how to make toy houses.

-Fixed the dithering in the trunks, and added a chopped down "tree"

-Added window sills

-Gave texture to the path to the house

Didn't do much, damn family taking over the computer >_>

I will add details like boxes and things you all recommended.
@jalonso: the brick trick didn't look good on the chimney

Yeah, please do

Why do the steps not have any texture?

Yes, that's what I was looking for in the bricks, it needed texture, variation....etc

the only way to make isometric pixel art interesting is to either -
A have hell of a lotta skill and break away from the generic cube
houses/buildings ( like that pixeldam piece that just came up and got
like 50 million favs)

B include loads of details the viewer will have to spend ages looking
at, the more small details the better.

C have a really great concept that is orignal.

so my advice for you if option B, just go overboard with details there
can never be enough. When i see the final version of this i want to
be able to spot something different everytime.

Update



Fixed the bricks following jalonso's example
Added two plants pots thingies near the door
Started some details

To do:
Details, details, DETAIIILSS!!!
Change the trees
Of course the grass

Lol, I feel like smashing a brick on my head.
Anyways, I will try to finish this already and then make the necesary changes to the bricks.

Here is my tree



Big and leafy

The leaves look nice? Yay! That's a great advance

And there I was getting excited....

i think you should add more contrast to the leafs of the tree, and the dither on the tree gives it more like a smooth feeling try looking around for other peaices that have trees in them and try to make the texture like that, but so far it looks preety good, nice job  considering i hate Iso :O

Woops, didn't post the version with the AA already in the slide, it looks like a torture device of some sort O_o. Thanks for your advice, guys, I will improve the tree and add the final details.

My meaning was to add an actual slide part so they don't fall off the ladder. XD

I like the table, and the tree is better, but maybe darken the highlight, or use less and dither for texture.