Perfect. Now just finish the sidewalk and submit it. :)

One small crit is whether the sails would be out if the ship is docked.  When I think of the above scenario, its with sails tied down, etc.  Then again it might be just like having a car parked but the engine is running.  Anyhow, it looks awesome Jalonso.

Jack

hey
its THAT guy.

i guess... ahem... i guess, reluctantly that i can pretty well say the sails have good texture now. hehe
theres a few sections here and there of that ever lover '50% dither' and harsh 45degree cuts in dithering patterns. But they arnt bold and dont jump out at you
I suppose i can finally say you got some good texture going on.
Only left me with one last thing to say about them. (and thats no fun... tsk jal! fixing all my crits)
The range in contrast is too great. It ranges too greatly from very very light colours, to very dark colours. If possible lighten / remove some of the darker colours. Id almost say the 2 darkest colours of blue (besides your darkest/outlining colour) should go, or atleast get reduced.
Just to lighten up the contrast within the sails.
Otherwise. Dang yo. you fixed my crits. Texture is working now. Good colours. pretty well no 50% dither, no block colours/shades.
Its just contrast now... but maby thats just me.

New boat colours are sexy. but no texture.
With the harsh highlights strictly in a line, it almost gives a sense of rounding out/bubbling that each board does.
Beautiful colours, just too plastic.
same with the flat/walking part of the boat. Add even just one similar shade, and add alittle bit of texture. Dont even worry about your ramps, or shades, or anything. Double pallete blend (DPB), and then you dont even have to worry about shading. It jsut adds that extra bit of information and texture and detail, which the rest of the picture holds except for on the wood part of the boat.

Water seems too blue for being right at the coast / edge. Water is blue from reflection of sky, but when in amongst the buildings and ship there would be other colours reflecting onto, and if thats not good enough... then its also shallower which then gets the colour from beneath the water.
in one of your older edits (i think the one i last edited) it had alittle bit of green in it. I rather liked that water. I can just about see that shelf though that i suggested. Its a nice touch.

after those areas...
all that i can see or say.. is that the rocks still seem oily..
and the green dome seems flat.

you keep fixing things, and it keeps getting better.
making it hard for me to crit.

however, if your fed up working on it, and or is tired.
this is nothing to be ashamed about quitting with. This is still a good final piece. I just made a few more suggestions just incase you wanted to hear.

As you wish. Like I said they're nitpicks so they are small and pretty insignificant.

The birds, the ones up in the air, something about their color that doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the picture. But more importantly that one bird between the ship and the building seems to stick out like a sore thumb. As it is it looks like it's trying to tackle something behind the ship. The head is turned to the left while the body is facing north, and the head is above the wings. I dunno maybe you could work with it and place some unlucky sailor covered in chum.

The tattooed sailor standing next to the plank seems to blend in with the floor. If it wasn't for the red bandana I probably wouldn't have noticed him there.

The skulls on top of the building (where the two guys are swordfighting) don't seem skull shaped like the skull hanging about the door of the white building.

If everyone is going to be putting in their two cents for every miniscule little thing at this rate you be, very very rich, and never going to finish this bad boy. Feel free to use this complimentary super emote...

Awesomeness. 

The problem with ripping the sails would mean giving the ship a battle hardened look, and that means you'd also have to add scratches and marks on the hull as well. And that equals to more time and more work.

pleeeeez, suggest.

It's flabbergastering how much work you've put into this. I envy you your level of motivation. It really shows that a lot of work does pay off.

The lighting suggest late afternoon and so low sun, which would mean little light penetrating the surface of the water and so I think it should be darker except perhaps for some specular highlights.

oooo
looks like your getting pretty close to being done.
shall i do 1 last edit for ya?
just giving 1 last visual crit for you?

Gah, I'm sorry jal, I should have worded myself better. The blue worked fine as a highlight on the domes, what was odd looking was the blue below the dome, on the tower (indicated by green box). What I thought, was, that not much light would reach that entire area, and instead of being blue it should be a green color like the rest of the building, possibly lighter to show that there is some light reaching that area (at least more than the area occupied by the trees). Is it too late to change the domes back to the ones in the previous version?

Edited by Acherhar - 23 December 2007 at 4:27pm

This is pure awsomeness jal

Ah, much better where the trees are :) The clean look actually works perfectly, and the tower looks fine now as well, though I see you removed the light on the door, any specific reason? Well anyway, I LOVE this piece, and I would choose image C to represent it, though A is really close.

I like C.  It leads you to think this is a nice simple picture of a man and his dog... and then you click on it and then BAM!, you're blown away :D
Perhaps nudge the icon down a pixel or two though, so there's a tad more border at the bottom of the rocks.

I think C is. I'm glad you're finally done.

hmm
i could still give you an edit
but it probably wont be until late 25th or 26th...
doing that christmas thing.
but its up to you if you want to wait or not.
snazzy snazzy

jal, who are you kidding. you love it :)
the attention

ill get one to you as soon as i can.
the final edit.
how exciting. :D
looking good.

"Barely edited anything"? 

If one 'barely edits', then one needs not to post an entire paragraph as an explanation of said edit. There's been a wee bit more than 'barely' here.

No, no, it was very helpful. I just meant is wasn't small as that 'barely' would suggest it would be. It was meant a compliment, sorry for the confusion. 

im glad you found my help useful and learned a few things.
this is a huge change from what it originally was, and the final product looks good.

its good though too, that you understand that even the things you dont fix in this image, and the things that you did, can be applied to something new.

Im interested to see what your new project is.
(editing your pixels is much better than making my own :D. i can colour, but not always draw. hehe)

now submit to the gallery.

Retarded



What do you mean, that its even on there or how I drew it?

omg, will this ever end o.O


* yup they are too small.

Chime in anytime green :P

Tortoise and the hare, tortoise and the hare.