[Manamaraya]

I'm really sorry if the image is too large. Please yell at me and tell me to resize it if that is the case.



Any and all critisism/advice will be absolutely loved! I appologize if the underscribbles are too messy to make out what is going on. I will update this once I get a bit more order in there...and hopefully at that point, it'll be a bit more easier to critique. Untill then--this is all I've got so far.

Thanks guys!
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[faeklone]

Well, so far the only comment I have about the picture would be a bit on the composition. In the foreground two things are fighting for dominance: the bird and the girl. The reason being is that the bird is done so big to pull your attention to it. If it's supposed to be a secondary point of interest then I would suggest making it smaller and possibly more in the background than the girl is. At the moment the girl is sticking out more just because she is fully coloured and has some bright colours on her compared to the background. I think that is what is going to make this picture really work for you is having the brighter, purer colours on the girl while the city in the background stretches out behind her in a monochromatic wasteland with a little bit of colour here and there. I must commend you for doing that.

AS well compositionally, if you are going to have 2 points of interest on the same page, I would suggest putting them at a diagonal to one another, and the one that you want to be the focus of the picture the higher one. That allows your eye to catch that one first and then be lead to the second point of interest accross the page, and then to the backgound that they had to look at while going from one edge of the picture to the other.

Lastly, I know you're just starting with this picture, but I would make the sky a bit more painterly. Being that rendered makes it look too rough.
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[Manamaraya]

Thanks a ton! That really does help the composition I think! I updated the image accordingly. I'll probably--definately play around with the clouds some more before this is done though. Thanks alot for the advice, faeklone!
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For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle,
And the merry love to dance.

[Affected]

It seems you have two perspectives here: the foreground works, but then the palace in the background is viewed from a pretty steep upper angle that you wouldn't get when viewing it from this height at this distance.