Changed the color of the ship to something a bit more readable. This pic has kind of a breakdown of the layering...
1) Top one: This is just the ship layer, black, green, dark green, and transparency.
2) Middle pic: Shows the other layers that go on top of the ship, the jewel colors have been changed for gameplay, and the black outline is just to help visualize it a bit.
3) Bottom pic: Shows all the layers together, I've changed the color of the guns in the front to grey, which I think is an improvement
Next step is to draw the jewels as damaged, although I find myself having a really hard time doing that! Are there any tutorials on how to draw things that are damaged/being destroyed?
Here's a pic of this bad boy in-game, the supporting projectile animations still need some work
Thanks for the feedback all!
-Johnny B.