Everything looks really good, especially the fire/smoke, tho it could use some sort of ground telling us its a lantern, cos atm it looks as the other poles tha's holdning the ground and other stuff up. Another thing that bothers me is the pink/skin-looking colour uve used at some places, you should consider changing it and maby add just a little more contrast into the picture, cos at first I thought it was a JPEG cos of the simmilar colours.
Yeah, I do need to play around with the colours more but PictureWars always seems to use low contrast anyway, so it's more of an attempt to fit in than anything else
that said, I like the contrast of your edit. The pinky colour used is because I wanted to keep the colours fairly saturated and needed to describe wood, and I quite like how it interacts with the ground, but I might tweak it a little.
Who are you on picture wars? I must say this is very nice, but often maps like this are hard to play on, especially if lazy members don't bother the fix the ground where they've been.
I'm not anyone on the actual picture wars forums, I just play on DRLFF and am internet buddies with Lizard (or Lizzrd as he is on PW), and we're thinking of having a "high quality" match. I personally don't think nearly enough effort is put into the pixelling side of things in most PW matches but I appreciate the realism behind such a statement. Putting the terrain back after you move can be a pain, but I think playing in a more interesting setting is worth it, tbh. I think there's the same difference between a detailed map and a "standard" PW map and illuminated text and crappy paperbacks (or at least a nice hardback with a dust cover), sometimes it's fun to be indulgent, especially when it comes to pixelling
