females tend to be more bottom-heavy.

supe rlovely, indeed on a whole different level compared with how your villag epiece started out.

THough get this atmospheric warm shining sunlight in
just a color edit, exept I filled the floor to the left with a darker shade, bc it felt quite bad in terms of seperation.



on another note, I feel like you use far too much dither. It doesn't really work for the trees or for the cloud reflection.

Just to moderate here a bit, although most have been pointed out already:

Critique is the section where artists of all kinds can get help from other artists, depending if they have time.
It's like free education, which is a service, which takes the providing artist already time and most of us here try to give back to people, since they also received help as they started out.

Asking one of the artists who provided an edit to actually work for free is something which is maybe not thenicest thing to do in a forum, where most artists who give critique are professionals and they do it on top of their working schedule for free.

Of course most of those artists work also will be done faster, or of higher quality than of newbies who post here, but time/skill usually translates to freelance rates as well.

Getting serious critique though and applying it to your work and making it better step by step and learning while doing so is something which makes yourself a better artist. THe gain from the critique section lies in learning and improving yourself, not necessarily in receiving a good edit you can use instead of your own art. 

If you need to get free work done, please use the "Unpaid Work" section of the forum which you can find here:
http://pixelation.org/index.php?board=14.0

Of course nobody took offense so far, but the spirit of this section on the forum exclusively lies on learning the craftmanship ofmaking pixel art by doing it yourself.




And if you want to receive help, the best thing you can do is to show what you already created.

Lots of good edits and you really took it to the next level.
There is more you can do now though:



1) take out the noise of the water, it breaks the style

2) seperate the color of the roofs from the color of the water to get a better contrast

3) highlighting the front edges of the roofs will move them forward and make them look more like they overlap the house

4)
-added some cast shadow on the last house
-seperated the light on the ground plane, front plane is now brighter
added another gray

You really should consider using about an equal amount of colors for each ramp. The houseroofs have now 4, while other spots have 2 or 3, beef the ramps up to 4 as well.

5) more work on the ground box.
erased detail on the top plane and exchanged them with more planar ones which look cleaner.
seperated the bricks near the water in terms of contrast
added a cast shadow beneath the street

6) keep in mind that the water level should be constant throughout the piece
I added a brighter wood color to the sunlit planes
the inside of the last house is not visible, somehow i see now that you placed a box down there, which was eaten by blackness before
added some more detail to the street and added some front brick details to the groundbox - also used more interestingly differentiated shapes on them





also removed highlights in the shdow planes, which were distracting


regarding the cave: didn't even notice there was one, but i know now what you mean. Yeah it should be more lit up, like the inside of the house at the rear.

using the colors and style you used as a base i added a bit of mechanical detail to it and hinted slightly at the background.

I think you pulled off the perspective quite well and everything has a solid feeling of volume to it. Use a bit more complex forms and add "cool" stuff like stripes, antennas, additional pistons, joint protections and stuff you would expect from a machine.

COlor wise I envisioned kind of a mars landscape, but generally the background isn't that important, I think it's more important to use the bg detail to draw you in to the character and to have some dynamic swooshy shapes which add life to the very static robot.