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[Pubic Enemy]

Ha ha ha. Any examples of those animes you mention?
I think I still don't grasp enough to call it a style lol, but I would like to get it somewhere along a more realistic lines if I could, then again abstraction is kind of the point sometimes so, I'm torn.

Practically any anime show or OVA from before the widespread adoption of digital ink and paint around the late 90s/early 2000s (not sure of the exact time period), like Dragon Half, Bastard!!, Vampire Princess Miyu, and so on (I don't recommend actually watching the first two unless your schlock tolerance is as high as mine). I'm not any sort of traditional purist, it's just that digitally animated anime soon became characterized by very pale and low-contrast color choices. Not sure why.

You probably just need to follow what you think is prettiest with regards to the abstraction question, unless you have some project where going full Toriyama would be more appropriate.

I actually quite like the landscape painting you posted. The circular landforms give it a nice fantastical quality. The only place where I feel like it could be given more of a sense of story is in those curved protrusions coming out of the ground; it's hard to tell if they're architectural ruins, huge animal fossils, or something else, which could be fixed by either changing the arrangement or adding more details. Also, feel free to bullshit those picatinny rails; I doubt that anyone will notice if they're out of perspective or whatever, haha. As long as they're in the right place you won't get any comments from gun fanatics. You're not doing a technical illustration here.