C64 graphics are hard

I made a Helsing’s Hunt Christmas card a while ago. I tried to change it into an opening picture for the game. Not sure if I wil use it, but it looks OK:

I also tried to redo the picture in PETSCII (the Commodore 64 ASCII). That is pretty hard. Some artists are great at it (like this one: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=121498).

At the moment mine looks like this:

It’s in standard C64 start-up colors, because I have used it as an PETSCII loader image.