Fantasy sketch crit please :P

[Wardy]

Have you ever heard about atmospheric perspective?

Yes, but (rightly or not) thats usually one of my later stages, I just add an airbrush layer with the horizon sky colour on low opacity and cover the distant things in it. Quick and dirty, but it works :) That would be my next step after establishing a good comp, though I recognise in this case it makes the arcs seem like they are touching each other which isnt good.
Thanks :)

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Thanks for posting up at so early a stage before you've noodled away a bit...it takes guts.

I'm pretty sure I showed you this before for one of your enviro pieces on dA:
Composition basics

While the example is character focused, the same holds true for environments, just replace the foreground, midground and background with your environment's shapes. I think you've jumped straight into old habits again. I'd say redo this, but this time paint only with 4 values as per the blog post. Put each one on a different layer. Paint with a large brush, full opacity ,no pressure sensitivity, so you get flat shapes and create an interesting composition and your depth that way.

And actually as long as we're going for it why don't we do it properly? Work at thumbnail size only (<500px per image), and do at least 6 of them. Then post those, and we can crit you on comp first of all.

We can worry about things like atmospheric perspective later.

Ah I complely forgot about that, that was a really good page I remember. I've had another look, and that 4 colour thing will help push the perspective for sure :)
Yes I kind of have reverted back to my old habits actually, probably because I really wasnt concentrating on this one, it was just a doodle that evolved. Will do a repaint with the same idea behind it but with a better foreground, midground and background. May tilt the 'camera' too, that always adds some nice dynamicism :) (how come that isnt a word?!)
Cheers for the feedback, good ideas, will work on this afternoon and post.