D4RK3 54B3R wrote:

I think you could try adding bricks to get rid of the smooth feeling. It'll look even sexier than it already does! :D

I dunno, I kindof like it with the cell-shaded look.
Really good job, Iain! Lotsa a detail and a very cool perspective. I could totally see this in a good strategy game. Only one nitpick: the round two level turret closest to the viewer breaks the perspective just a bit. The ovals on the highest levels are too round for that perspective line. Other than that, really cool!

Kataharo Tayoko wrote:

It can still be cell shaded with texture, right now it looks like a plain cement castle. Add stuff like bricks...

I added all the details I thought would be visible at that distance, with the colors I allowed myself. I don't think individual bricks or stone slabs would be visible at this distance, and I feel that adding them would detract from the image. Please feel free to modify the image and prove me wrong, though. I'd love to see what another artist could do with that basic image.

Add stuff like bricks vines and colors

Part of the charm, for me at least, in pixel art is the constraints put on the art. I could have used a different color for every pixel, but I don't think the image would work on the imagination in the same way. When using a limited number of colors like this, I feel that the brain assumes that it isn't seeing the whole thing, and it activates the imagination to fill in the rest. However, like I said before, I'd love to see what you or someone else could do with the image, adding colors and other stuff.