echo´s sketchbook

[Fedodika]

Its good you have a seperation of values in the for middle and background. I think the painting is more about the sky than the character, theres just too much of it. The rocks arent very rock like, they seem a little too perfect, almost like toys and the contour of both the ones hes standing on are almost perfectly straight lines. Like the only diagonal lines in the whole image are the flag, and the figure closest to the background on the left side. even the soldiers down below are vertical, and the spiraling rocks above them.

in fact this crop here fixes a lot of the issues
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...e_crop.jpg

Mainly just think more about sexy shapes and compositional motiffs, like radiating lines and what not, id highly reccomend reading andrew loomis Creative Illustration, its fantastic for learning those things. And always thumbnail your ass off before making that first mark on the final image!