A spaceship or a gun?

That's what I thought as well. Like a Halo-esque gun or spaceship.

Thank you everyone. I really appreciate the feedback. I'll work on the background some more before working back on the fountain.

Hey Thanks you two. Youre right about the lightsource, I should have chose that first.

For the first one I put a yellow overlay to hopefully give it more of a golden tone. Got rid of the back feathers and added another red. I also colored in some of the feathers with a pink or gold to try to make it look less busy while still showing texture.

I thought it might possibly look even more busy now, so I tried a second edit with taking out all of the middle feathers and just shading the body.
That's where I'm at right now. Thoughts? Thank you !

I would recommend choosing a general light source for all of your game assets to keep them cohesive. If you're going to have a bunch of environmental lighting... you're going to have a much more difficult time making your assets look good unless you want to have multiple versions of each with different light sources.

Don't worry. This particular room I'm making uses an image as a background instead of a tileset.

That does make it look a lot better, thank you