Most of the initial critique I recieved on my “finished” image suggested that the colors looked flat. Unfortunately I don’t have time in the immediate future to work on this piece – however I whipped up a revised version to show how I might adjust the colors in the future.

(click the thumbnail below to view the full-size image)

I wrote in a comment that I would actually use vibrant colors now that I think about it – I must have forgotten that part…

EDIT 2007-05-28: Initially I interpreted the critique of “colors looking flat” as a problm with my choise of colors but I realized later that what people meant was that it was the grey-values which were flat. The problem was the contrast. Not the colors themselfs. (allthough the colors were a bit iffy too) The solution was not as straght forward as just “bumping up the contrast” however.