[Kinten]

I need all the help i can get on this one.
How can i improve the atmosphere?
I need more detail, but i dont know what to put in there + i dont know how the mountains and the forest should look like.

Paintovers are welcome!!

[Goon]

Good start. Assuming i am qualified to critique it, i will say this.
Compositionally you have a huge expanse of sky which is very visually dominating: it is warm bright and covers a good portion of the page, including the center. I find it difficult to draw my eyes downwards towards the small campfire amist the dark and rather bland landscape. The mountian range is bland: it lacks depth and has no really strength. Each peak terminates at roughly the same heigth in the picture, nearly of the same color. Additionally the campfire is at the very bottom of the page, is very small, distant, and inneffective. It seems to be merely to have something there rather than serving a purpose by its presence. If the campfire was your reason for creating this piece, make it larger, closer, maybe viewed from a low angle so that its flames mingle with the setting/rising sun. If it was because of the sunset that you painted this, ditch the fire or at least establish it as an effective counter point to the dominance of the sky.

Your rendering skills need work, but as this only comes with practice and you are already on the way. Good luck.

[AndyT]

Did you use ref images? It's probably a good idea to do that.

Look at images by good artists. Think how you can make important elements stand out against the not so important ones.
I like the sky but I think it shouldn't cover that much of the canvas.
Think about cropping it or at least adding some details.

Very good examples:
http://www.saunderscreative.com/painting.htm
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[Kinten]

Goon, thank you for you advice.
I see what you mean with the composition. One doesnt really know what the purpose of the image is, im gonna try changing that. And about the colors of the mountains; I generally do this kind of error, I guess im afraid of contrast and of using a wide range of colors. Its good that you point that out, gonna try to do something about that aswell.

AndyT: Yeah, I guess studdying the work of others is the best way to learn. That plus keeping at it, practicing.. Thanks for the link!

[Kinten]

I know that the lightning is f*cked up, gonna fix it in the next post... ill redraw the char from scratch, got a bit carried away on the face
But i lieve him so that you can see my intention...


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