Sorry, but I don't agree with this. If you own Photoshop CS, there is absolutely no reason to be using MSPaint. Put it this way, If you had both a hand and a foot and your hand was better for drawing, would you ever use your foot to draw with? As long as you follow the "sprite/pixel rules" (ie: no brushing, filters, etc.) Photoshop is a very fine choice of program. Now, with that out of the way, great sig! The sky's colours look fab, the blending is great right now. However it's looking a little plain near the bottom of the sky, maybe some clouds or something could spice it up? (note: do things like this on a diff layer ;) don't wanna ruin your sky) Also you should try and clean up your lines, try to keep them at about 1px thick. The horizon line looks like 2-3px thick, which should be fixed. :) Lastly, don't forget to use some lighter shades & highlights on the rocks, and try to avoid pillow shading. :) Good luck, keep it up! To be honest I've never tryed using photoshop ( can't afford it ) and if you think it's best go ahead. I know there are quite a few of the top pixelers who use Mspaint Back to the picture: 1. The lines of the landscape are too thick - You need to make them thinner and maybe change them to a darker colour of the landscape rather than black. 2. The coal rocks' bases are too flat, to change that maybe you should go a bit wild and make them more pointy. 3. The light source of the coal rocks is in front of them, however the light is behind them. Only some minor faults, other than that it's a brilliant start and you should defiantely continue.