Oldschool backgrounds

[kjetting]

Here are some BGs I made just to have a few rooms to experiment with in AGS. It's not officially going to be a game yet, but I hope that that's what my experiments will eventually lead to. As you can see I chose an old school pixeldrawing aproach to these, instead of 3d or photorealistic imagery.
Being kinda new to pixelart, I would really like to hear what you guys think of these:




Everything you see here is handdrawn with a mouse, exept the illumination effects in the first image and the grafitti piece in the second (The grafitti is vector-drawn)

[Sektor 13]

first one is good, but still needs some toutch up, too much straw-like, use blur ,,

[kjetting]

Good point. I may use some sort of smoothing filter on it, but I'm not a big fan of blurring everything out so that everything looks totally out of focus, because then the characters and objects would have to be out of focus too. I know a lot of people think it's nice when backgrounds look like they're viewed through a thick layer of fog, but I'm not one of them. I guess I'll try to decrease the strawiness a little, though.

[m0ds]

Very nice style, kjetting. It almost reminds me of dare 2 dream style backgrounds, but in such better display. They should have used your style. The bridge scene is very nice to look at. I like your style. I like the crispness of your style. I can't wait to see it in action in your test game. Old school still works well!!