Progress? The Space Farm

I was looking over some old illustrations lately, and came across a piece I did a just a few years ago: The Space Farm.

I remember at the time thinking that it was one of the best pieces I had done.  I still love the utter randomness of the concept and the composition isn’t bad, but I’m surprised at how raw my drawing was.

Space Farm– Version 1

So I decided to redraw the illustration completely.

Space Farm- The Revised Version

As you can tell, I kept the composition mostly unchanged and kept the colors close to what they had been before.  Beyond that, I don’t even think the two look like the work of the same person.  I guess this means I’m progressing as an artist, or something…