This is part of a larger isometric scene I'm making. It's a sort of colonial log cabin with random bits strewn around it.

It's really messy and uses a lot of colors and I'm afraid the grass might be too noisy for some items to clearly show, like the campfire. I used a few Age of Empires images as references to get an idea of how to render certain things. Later I'm going to add a trail, lots of foliage and a halfway constructed cabin if my attention span allows it.

The highlight makes it seem like plastic, I'm pretty sure skulls aren't that reflective. The highlight needs to be dispersed to make it like bone. Perhaps give the highlight a little more yellow, it looks kind of clean. You have a lot of unnecessary AA.

Just a quick edit to the lighting giving more emphasis to the eyebrow ridge, cheek bones, bridge of the nose and the sides of the forehead which flatten out with the temporal bone on the side. I didn't mess with the jaw and teeth much but right now they're almost invisible.

Oh, and the cheek bones are too round, the actual bones, if you look at references, are angular and square.

I just want there to be a pretty strong point of focus. I mean if I were to refine everything and have everything as detailed as the rocks/sword it wouldn't read well. Like if I were to detail mountains in the distance as much as mountains in the foreground it might be confusing. Maybe I'm wrong but that's how I've always understood it, it helps with time (not that time is a matter) but also that's what I've always seen in traditional paintings and such.

Your lines are kinda sloppy, otherwise it's nice. However I don't feel Arne's style in it.


A character inspired by Western novels

Thanks you guys. I will fix the confusing lighting soon but like I said, I sort of hit a wall with the grass so I kind of went with a lazy styled look instead of actually pixelling blade of grass after blade of grass. My biggest problems are giving the grass a believable texture and the tree bark.