Refreshing.  This is a good chance to form good foundations for your piece before you get detail and pixel perfect crazy.  It may also be a good chance to do a piece with a more encompassing palette instead of a single hue that dominates the whole piece.  I'd like to see some reds and blues here too, but that's just me.  The planet or sun on the right looks pretty cool- the light adds nice punctuation.  Perhaps make it a bit brighter down the road after you've added detail to keep this punctuation. 

Also, it is a bit hard for people to give good critique when you just give the image.  It helps to voice your concerns for the current state and where you want to take it.

It's not that FrostButt's questioning your composition, it's that we can't tell where it's going. While you're still "composing" your piece, it's not going to look entirely like the final copy. Therefore, we can't see the vision you've set for this piece. If you want us to help you, you have to let us in on your big picture before we can help compose your piece. When you're done, the piece will speak for itself.

Here guys:

Thanks all!


So, I kinda dreamed about this scene, that's why I am doing it.

Fits with this song

The perspective of the closest city/building thing fails, and you might as well want to throw some reflection in the piece to make the water and the piece it self look better.
Here's a rough edit:

@Night - Okay, it's not water, it's grass. Heh, so I have to change it. Those are just statues like the MOAIS, they are not underwater.
@Angel - I don't know about that, I don't see anything wrong with it, but I will experiment something different.

Oh, I thought it was water too. Like some green mucky toxic water with people wading through them, which is why the trees didn't fit. But now they make sense. :)

Thanks Night <3

I still don't think your dithering ever fits the style of your pieces.  Just add another color or color mix more. 

somewhat off topic: I also thought the greenish blue was a murky water at first, and I thought it made the piece very interesting and brought the viewer to an interesting place.  Somewhat saddened it's grass :p

kutgw

Nice colors and sky.. I'm glad to see you take another approach! Those colors with dithering look really good and give it a nice misty effect.
But why the heck are they submerged into what looks like short grass on a plain!? That's just bizarre in a bad way.

Yeah, but the Easter Island heads aren't really buried in the ground...Are they?  More importantly, they are HUGE and HEAVY.  And your statues look human size.  Work on making your statues appear huge and much larger than life, which gives the feeling that it is so sturdy it'll never move, not like yours look like they are ready to tip over easily.  Maybe add tiny sized humans walking through the valley?

Oh I see.. it just comes of as if they weren't monolithic statues in ruins at all. I thought it was one guy buried almost fully as if in quicksand and the others too sinking, but carrying on through a marshland. I was confused by that because of the flowers though.
 It makes more sense now indeed; but maybe have the statues less submerged and more crumbled with rocky debris to show the mass.

Another positive thing.. I like the shadow in the foreground a lot!
EDIT:
I just realized a second after posting that maybe the perspective of the shadows is a bit too severe on one side:
The one on the right being a suggested approximate angle


Edited by |||| - 27 June 2012 at 4:23pm

Also, I noticed your piece may have a very basic compositional fault. Take a look at this, and compare it to your tower centered in the middle of the picture and decide for yourself.

Thanks guys and thank you so much frostbutt!

|||| working on te shades

Edited by philippejugnet - 28 June 2012 at 11:12am

well, its far away on the horizon...

I think it'd be an interesting move to make the mountain to the right that is connected to the castle into a castle itself. I think it'd give the scene a sense of being vast and make a good focal point that would lead you from the right along to the left. I'd also make the rock formation that obscures this new castle a little smaller to make this new focal point stand out. Just a thought :)

Thanks guys, here, update. It looks like something done by fool but it was coincidence, if there's a problem in than I will post ref.

And the only thing that I want to say critical - it is too early to do small details - it distracts you from the overall composition and the painting of those little details takes much time.


И единственное что я хочу сказать критичного - пока рано заниматься маленькими деталями - это отвлекает тебя от общей композиции и на рисование этих маленьких деталей уходит много времени.

Me lembra muito shadow of the colossus , só faltou o cavalo agro

Wow! Great work. I kinda thought I would miss the castle and the bridges, but this setup gives the scene a more solitary/isolated feel. Wonderful details all over the place.

during this WIP thread the artwork has gotten much more refined in terms of detail, but has lost all of the atmosphere of the original. the truncated forms of the statues are also distracting, a bit too even in how the meet the ground. the pool of water was more interesting than grass, even if it is more derivative of the Elk piece this is inspired by.

the narrative of the original is also gone. it was once a heroic bowman looking at a fearsome dragon with ruins in between, but now it's just some half-statues in a field.

The composition of the original was well-balanced, with the focal points of the narrative balancing each other. The current composition is sort of cluttered along the bottom.

That being said, the parts that are refined are looking good, I would just keep in mind composition and the narrative, and don't get lost in refining until you know how you want to move forward.

Again, I admire your ambition, courage and confidence, but perhaps you should learn to master a more traditional pixel art canvas size before doing a size that is more or less completely out of expected size for a pixel art scene.  Perhaps even less than 1/4 of this size would fit this very well and the size restrictions would probably coerce you to have sharper and better arranged pixels.  Don't abandon the unique advantages of this medium in a courageous attempt

Thankyou guys, I still don't like some stuff so I will probably be changing it.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Oh, floating mountains, there is something like in the movie "Avatar"
:)

О, парящие горы, есть что то похожее в фильме "аватар"