Almost a year ago I was working some map for a friend who wanted to make a fantasy MMO browser game.

So we've started working on this island as a starting point in the game, but he then resolved around IRL stuff and quit his project to go working on another, so I've left this sitting by until I stumbled upon it yesterday.

I was horrid. It had 160 colors and needed shaping up, and I played a bit last night and put it down to 21 colors palette.

This is current WIP:



I'm now working on the sea.

Most definitely it will lead to some 10-20 frames animation of the island. :)
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Any ideas, c&c, liky/no-liky and etc. is most welcome. :)

Your perspective in this piece is really off. The buildings do not seem to match the way you would view the land. I think it would help to draw or find a grid of the perspective of the land and draw the buildings from that. Right now it looks like this is a top view of the land but then maybe a slight side view of the buildings, if that makes sense.

And, as skeddles said, your colours are super satarated. You should try to lower them down a bit. I'm not a pallate expert but from what I've seen, saturation is better in lowlights than highlights.

Just my two cents; maybe it's because you came down from so many colors but there's something really delightful in the palette.  It feels very much like something I'd play back in middle school.  So I don't know if messing around with those is that big a deal.  Same thing with the perspective.  Maybe if you showed foreshortening in the surf surrounding the island and dithered it out right it might help with that.