No idea on how to do the grass really, and not completely satisfied with mountains and sunset. Help please?

 

You have very bright colors in the fire. I think you could use to look at reference pics of fire that show how it comes from burning material (wood is the most common one) and how the tongues are formed.

 

The castle looks very out of place for several reasons. First of all, it's in plack and white. I suggest at least giving it a solid fill of a color around what you want it to be so you can assess its affect on the piece better. Secondly, it's parallel to the bottom edge of the picture. It would look much more natural if it was at an angle perpendicular to the person's line of sight and showed some perspective. The village behind it could use some perspective as well.

 

The person looks anatomically incorrect and he's basically gradient-shaded. That isn't how light would really reflect off clothes or skin of a real person, and he doesn't show any highlights from the sun. The ones he does have, like the rocks', could use to be 'orangified'.

 

The grass the person's standing on is very saturated and lacks real texture; right now it looks more like a spraycan-grass than anything. Decrease the saturation and portray it as an intermittent grass with patches of grass on a surface of dirt to add interest.

 

What's up with that lake? Blood (the most commonly portrayed red liquid) doesn't look nearly so red and water isn't that blue either. Cut the saturation and make the red have a reason. You might be tempted to tell me the reason for blood being there, but showing it would improve the art's logistics a lot more. A possibility would be to have soldiers and corpses out there to signify that a huge battle took place.

 

One question: do you play runescape?

Anyway, could you show me what you're talking about? I really have no idea how to "orangify" my mountains and rocks. I know that the grass is bad, that's why I asked for a few tips on it. 

 

I know you're trying to help, but I don't need to know as much of what's bad as much as I need to know how to improve.

 

I realize that fire comes from burning material (Duh) but I tried the wood and it looked ugly. I don't mind the fire not looking realistic.

 

I have no idea what saturation means. The castle is white because I haven't colored it yet.

 

I don't understand how my guy is anatomically incorrect nor do I know how to fix it.

 

All the stuff on the ground isn't nearly complete, it's just an outline of what's to come. I realize that the blood is fake looking but I'm not really worried or working on that right now.

 

Saturation is how not grey a color is. In the image above, the colors towards the bottom are grey and those towards the top are completely saturated (not grey). You should try to limit yourself to things not at the ends of the continuum. Ignore the luminosity slider on the right for now.

 

I admit, some parts are spray canned. It is because I WANTED that texture that I spray canned it. I know how to dither (Sun). At first I did dither the hills, but I didn't like it because it looked like a gradient. I wanted random pixels in the line of the transition of colors. Why would I want to do all of that by hand instead of use a convenient tool in Paint?

I don't really mind if it's not accepted into the gallery. I didn't start this pixel for the gallery. I might do some others that are specifically for the gallery, though.

 

Thanks for the help, but I prefer my fire that way. How do you choose and place your colors so well?

 

You may like the spraycan texture, but you'll find that doing it all yourself gives you more control and usually makes you end up finding out a method that emulates the texture of grass. You also have a lot of unneccessary colors in the hills; you wouldn't have needed those if you'd placed every pixel by hand.

 

The guy looks wrong because he lacks joints and muscles. His legs just flow out of his torso, showing no thigh muscle, etc. Even if he's not a bodybuilder the muscles are there, they just may be more subtle. He has no knees and his elbows aren't visible. I suggest adding slight bends to make the standing position more natural or choosing a pose that forces them to be bent. His back looks curved like a cylinder due to the gradient shading there. Show that he has a mostly flat side and a mostly flat back, and show how his clothes hang off his body where the shirt ends and where the pants meet the shoes.

 

Good luck and keep pixelling!