03-17-2016, 07:57 PM
I like the first one but it can be tweaked to suggest depth and scale more. The banner is nice, but it's huge. I would take the riders from the first with the banner, and make them about half smaller, so we can see most of the horses.. Make the rider in front a bit smaller than the one behind and overlap them. Then take the scale of the village and reduce it in scale a bit so it is more like the second and compress the value range so it seems to be more in the distance. You can bring intermediate layers of forest and road that sweep down towards the town from top right as shapes to accentuate depth and make it a bit more dynamic a comp.
I did a paintover because I like composition problems, so I know it works, but I'm going to have to let you at it yourself...can't give you an advantage others haven't had! Good luck!
I did a paintover because I like composition problems, so I know it works, but I'm going to have to let you at it yourself...can't give you an advantage others haven't had! Good luck!