Wow, you guys are brilliant! I love this forum <3
That style looks really nice!
I think your explanation is pretty spot on too, since every time I tried to increase contrast it becomes very grainy. I actually considered making it more clean after seeing how the wooden floors looked without any grain.
The problem I'm having is that I tend to jump from style to style, I see something and go "oh let's try that!" and then next week it's something else
Right now I'm sorta trying to collect it all in my head before I start re-drawing the tiles.
A question, what method do you use for selecting colors in photoshop? I just have the standard color picker, but it can be confusing when shifting hues. Like a darker shade for wood becomes more red, but perhaps I need to shift it much further. I'm kinda bad at exaggerating colors and contrast as you may have noticed
edit:Had a go at making some objects and tiles using a quite colorful palette.
It's really hard with the limited colors and it's also looking quite plain. I assume this kind of style looks best when you see the whole picture. But I had some trouble with the top of the barrel looking quite plain.
Ugh and outlines are looking quite messy in general, bah, need to do this properly when I'm not super tired and can barely see straight