Critique this bg

[Publius]

http://www.deviantart.com/view/29665954/

Thanks

[Squinky]

I like the style. All in all it is a nice picture.

Things that bother me are the gradient for the sky, something more subtle might be in order. And there is an odd blurryness around the tower.

[DonB]

I dig it.. great.. cartoony style!.. wanna see more of this style..

and actually i do like the gradient.. it fits

[Evil]

Yeah, it's a nice image over all. Some cast shadows would really improve it, I think. The gradient is all a personal prefernence. It'd work better if there were more gradients in the image (not that I condone the use of gradients).

[Publius]

Yeah, I knew I was opening up Pandora's box when I put a gradiant in the sky, but I think I'll stick it out.Ã,  As for the obelisk being blurry, it's a photoshop filter gone horribl awry and I'm going to fix it.Ã,  Shadows would be cool, but I feel like I'd need a phd to do all those measurments.Ã,  maybe I'm just lazy, or is there an easy way to do shadows that i'm not thinking of?
Thanks for the kind words, btw.

[Evil]

Lasso tool and an opaque layer using solid black?