Cartoon/DOTT-Style Medieval Background

[TheHidden]

Hello everybody.
This is my first post in this forum and the first background I dare to mistreat the public eye with 




It's supposed to be Cartoon/DOTT-Style Game. I didn't proceed with the details of the background, because I stuck with the house. It just doesn't say "medieval" for some reason. Also I am not happy with the grass in the foreground. I have no idea how I could give more structure to it, without creating a hilly landscape.

I appreciate any advice. Thanks.

[TheHidden]

EDIT : Nevermind

[Privateer Puddin']

Code: ags

[img]http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/thehidden.jpg[/img]

copy and paste this into your post

much easier than copying and pasting the link, especially when my browser showed the data for it rather than the picture itself

[Mats Berglinn]

Well, the style seem quite DOTT-esque but there are things that looks strange.

The roofs of the two parts of the house isn't at the same height and they don't even meet so it looks very strange. Also, the tree seems like it's made of paper or carton (it looks like a flat theatre-prop).

[passer-by]

It just doesn't say "mediaval" for some reason.

I think it is because surfaces are too smooth. The wall looks like painted with some modern paint and the lower part looks like bricks, not stones or plinths or something.

[TheHidden]

After your advices it came out like that :




More C&C please, and thanks for all the good advice.

[Scummbuddy]

1) maybe less of a change in the sky colors on either side of the clouds. the darker one should be less, in my opinion.
2) some of the tops of the fence are not shaded, while some are, and they are in the same direction. There should only be one way.
3) I loooooooooove the tree in the background. I love how there are no outlines to that whole little quadrant of the image. I wish the rest of the image had that style.
4) the fence posts that make "Z"s as well as the light post that makes a "Z" shape are a bit too exaggerated. I would lessen that as well.
5) The roof looks a lot better now, but its the only thing that isn't wacky perspective, which should get a touch of.
6)The "L" bends in things should really not be there, especially the building. If you make it more of a curving, then it should be more DOTT.
7) Medieval times didn't have light posts. Not even candle ones, or oil ones, that I know of. But, if you call it one, then perhaps its will be okay.
8) we need to be led to think that the fence continues a little bit more. If you were to add just one more, and have it be "cut off" at the midline, then we could easily believe that it keeps going. You'll learn that in Visual Concepts 1.
9) It really does look too clean to be a medieval house. It needs mud, and hay/straw...generally a farm look. Not many people did much else than farm if they were to live in what seems here as away from others. Couldnt just get in a car and go to the grocery store.
10) Lastly, the texture of the roof doesn't match well with that tree on the left side, which, I think you should continue mimicing.

All in all, you've got yourself a great beginning to a background. I can't wait to see the next update.

[TheHidden]

I think it looks better - unfortunately it isn't what I really wanted when I began 
But those were some great advices you all gave me - even if I couldn't turn them all into a picture yet.

[ildu]

It's better, but now it's too blurry. For a job like this, I'd advise you start over. Print the image with the right dpi, draw the outlines using the printed image, get photoshop, and fill the coloring and shading in. Of course, if you haven't done this before, it may be a bit hard. I'm just saying your image has much potential.

[TheHidden]

I have the Outlines (the hand-drawn template).
I don't know what I did wrong - but still, I agree with you.

[passer-by]

I don't know what I did wrong

I quite likeÃ,  the picture, if it was a real place I might even buy it!! But, it still doesn't look medieval to me. I can't do a paintover to show you what I mean, I'll try and find a picture for you.
edit
It isn't a manor, is it?
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/mdvl.PNG
I think you also needÃ,  stables, barns, garden, animals, filth etc...