i got really inspired by jalonso's backgrounds (especially the gothic-ish one, so it might look a small bit like that one :P) so i decided to make one myself :O so far i got the ground and part of the heaven done and i just decided to use 16 colors max. anyways, here ye go:



i will probably add some house thingy or something in the background too. and this isnt for some game or anything, i just felt like pixeling something >_>

crit away :D

update: more clouds!



there will be some kind of building on the right side.. but i dunno what yet.. maybe some mad professors castle would fit with the swirly dark clouds.. well, i dunno yet :P ideas please :)

update: added a castle (still wip), bushes, rock and some more clouds. still 11 colors.



(i still have the version without castle and stuff in case i wanna make something else instead of a castle :P)

contrast?

Oooh.. it's looking so evil and dark.. amazing work.

because the swirl is "awesome" [lots of alternating contrast between the shades] that's going to be your focal point; almost anything else you put on the canvas will be lost in comparison. I didn't even notice antyhing other than a door and part of a castle until my 3rd time looking at the image. you need to make the foreground [bushes, ground] pop alot more; be that adding shades with more saturation or whatever, because otherwise it really wont matter what you put there; because with the hues you have now you can't even see the bushes.

[edit] After taking another look, it came to my mind that it's quite possible you worked on this at 8/10x zoom, and haven't really cared how it looked in 1x view; or anything below 8, because while the details are not lost zoomed that far in, I doubt many people will actually zoom that far.


Edited by Setzer

thanks for all the crits! really giving me inspiration to continue on this piece.
i dont really know if ill continue on the one with the castle tho (i still have all crit in my mind so i can make it better tho), so ive made an alternate version which will focus more on the sky. the other small details i put there will hopefully still be noticeable :P



might change some of the clouds there and might change the ground to just a hill or something (i think that would fit better on this one) and i hope you can all see what the little glowy thingy on the right is :P its still 11 colors btw

This new take is interesting. I just think the sharpness in the lower floor bit doesn't really match the softness of the hanged man, or the clouds for that matter. The glow around the man is nice and mysterious though.

I love those speckled highlights. even if they look out of place on grass. they seem more fitted for a rocky road or something, but they still rock.

Looks really awesome quickie

Is this an actual game you're doing?

I personally like the light highlights in the sky that you originally have, you just need to continue them throughout the whole sky.

The grass looks alright, but I perfer the castle setting personally.

Can't wait to see how this ends up!