Kimberly said:

Hey dude, I just did a quick draw over of your work to show you something.

You may, or may not like what I have done as it was a quick job and I dont have the original files..but....I hope its ok?

Personally, I recommend you draw some sort of glow (light shining out in a perspective/lines with a glow in the middle)

ICON SHOW GUIDE

1. All of this is done with a simple computer mouse, it took me less than 3 minutes.

2. Add some black shadow fade, with a large soft brush on one side.

3. Add a soft big brush (yellowy orange) on a new layer on the other side like the shine of a sphere, then set that brush layer to overlay.

Then draw some reflective light so it doesnt fade into the background. Draw this on a different layer.

Re-adjust and put the artwork more into frame.

Shrunk Version

Hope this helps

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Cakedog345 said:

First of all - zoom in a bit, to understand "what is happening" and then - do it clearer.
The big pic is not bad!

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Apheraz Lucent said:

It looks like it's... withering, in some way. Don't get me wrong, but you tried to represent the earth with dust and mud, which both do belong to the earth element, but it heavily deforms the concept of earth as the only rock-solid (no pun intended) element.

Execution is, well, messy. 64x64 is already quite small area to focus your eyes upon, so why distance the orb away?
The mud just made everything look weak and it also looks a little weird, mostly because distance killed details and blured the rocks, resulting in a smudgy cast of light sources and shadows.
I usually don't encourage people to use focus details (a single small detail that draws attention in this or that way), but since the colors are quite pale and neutral, a small bright-green sprout with a leaf or two would revive the icon.

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