pixel landscape

[Grimsane]

haven't pixel'd in ages, figured I'd spend a few hours of my afternoon getting back into the groove rather satisfied so far, figured I'd post it here
anyone have any suggestions/feedback or crits on the composition or the clusters themselves? 26 colours bit too much? hopefully get back into low restriction pixels more so

[Decroded]

cool vibe.
quick doodle for better or for worse:

[Charlieton]

I don't like the debris stuff in the foreground. The image is so dark, so the bright stuff sharing the same colours come off as being part of the same thing, and on the same level of depth. At first look for me, anyway. Also, the piece of debris on the left is a very generic pixel shape, and it breaks off from the style of the rest of the objects in the image (a piece of abstract symbolism (that exposes the grid) in a mimetic landscape). It's noise, essentially.

[ErekT]

Cool little piece but I think all the colors and the overly antialiased edges work against it big-time. If you bring down the color count it'll be easier to spot banding issues too.

[Parkerbaby]

It looks so much like a resized and blurry picture. Everything is banded, and it seems more attention was paid to making it blurry than to actually address the forms.

[Grimsane]

nice edit decroded

yeah I agree with you guys, feel I've lost touch , and with fresh eyes it's all too apparent, that and pixel'ing at 1200x zoom is pretty silly 

think i might double the res and half the colour count

[pistachio]

If you look at photo refs of temples most pictures are taken from a low angle. IRL it would be a low-angle viewpoint, so why not?



Not sure what to put in the background but a mountain would add depth, could be another temple also, but the current tree is throwing the composition off balance.

Second doubling the res though, keep it up mate. This could be twice as great. But you gotta watch out for those clusters.

[Grimsane]

mhm yeah, awesome suggestions Pistachio! definitely think I will push the low angle, looks far more epic.

just spent awhile on it, not long uprez'd, I'd have to disagree with the previous comment about heaps of banding, because there wasn't really much, but the banding was removed with the over use of subtle colour changes which is probably worse colour is down to 18 at the moment



think I'll run with pistachio's advice, also yeah the tree isn't working amazing still either, gonna push the background.

edit:
down to 11 colours, going to go 12 so i can add one more tone when i need if I need it, messed around with the tones, and figured I'd experiment with composition before attempting to change the perspective


edit II:
messing around some more with possible background,  and also just tried increasing the height a bit



going to see what I can do to push a low perspective, might not have too much time to work on this for a while. Perspective on the bottom exploration is screwed