Switching out renders and colors is well and good, but have you thought about using a different sort of background altogether? Variety isn't a bad thing, you know.
Would look awesome if the render wasn't chopped off at the bottom.
got a few more options on mine here, any opinions? Kinda fond of the first... takes the ship out and there's nothing on the background interfering with the face...
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It's still missing a border. Seriously, just draw a recangle in Paint.
First one with a nice pretty border would look very good.
How's this? I took a spaceship texture and cut it down to a 5 pixel wide border... =P
I would say try a more plain border, like black with white outline. The texture seems out of place...
ok... 5 pixel solid black border:
or white border:
Thats better. 'Specialy the first one.
Yeah, first one is pretty awesome. Good work!