Ok, two new attemps. There's some improvement but I'm not quite there yet. Readability seem to be the issue. I've tried to put into practice everything you've said.





A quick comparison:

Thanks for pointing me out in the right direction, I humbly accept your criticism. I've saved both your messages to my hard drive and will try again with a bigger size show it you later.

Hello again,

I've tried my hand at doing a portrait and I'm having a hard time. I'm trying to improve my pixel abilities and decided to do something pretty hard.

Reference (sorry, can't find the hide tag):



Here's my attemps (I'm using little paintings as a ''concept'':

1st:


2nd:


3rd:


4th:


Current 5th attempt:


Anyways, I'd really like to become good at this. I'm open to just about anything you'd have to say and I'm hard working.

Thank you.

Unrelated nudity:

Yup  .

Anyhow, I fixed most criticism this time:


I added the bush which wasn't there before but I worked on it a bit longer before doing so. I think I'll get some comments about the shading of the bush but I wanted to try something. Not sure the colors of the bush match the rest of the map either. I also moved things around to make the forest look more like a forest. I tweaked the clouds a bit.

Anyhow, let me know what else could use some improvement and I'll do it.

I'm working on adding a cliff but it doesn't look very good at the moment so I'm not putting it on the map just yet.