Ok. The first part is kind of finished, give or take a bit of polishing and file size reduction.

I know a lot of the things that were discussed haven't been included, but that's why there is a part 2 ;)

I wouldn't use Affinity to do it either. I'd use GIMP. It's the only app that can sharpen a mask if such proves to be necessary.

I think my idea of something being too much work is probably quite different to yours. Only yesterday I processed 364 symbol pngs to 64k colours instead of full colour - one at a time by hand. All in the name of reducing the sheer size of a new style for download next month :)

(I use Corel to do that particular job, since none of the other apps seem to be capable of it)

Thanks Cal :)

Update for the day. A few more buildings done.

Oh Mike! Well, don't worry. The changes are supposed to make the outline less noticeable ;)

Here is a more general shot of the style

Ok. I now have holes in the roof on both tiled and thatch houses. The thatch house holes were a lot harder to work out than the tiled ones. No sharp edges!

Anyway! I was hoping to find out what you think of the 'derelict' version of this cottage. Does it go far enough... too far?

There will be full ruins in part 2 later on in December.