Madahgi Sunrise

Hello,

You have submitted this in the #Realm-of-Fantasy Critique Corner Section. So I will do my best to give you some Constructive Criticism.

I really like the idea of wandering adventurers in a beautiful foreign land. Has good cinematic promise.

My biggest issue with this piece, Lens Flares. It is something that needs to be used very sparingly, if it is to be used at all. In this case it simply overpowers the piece between the flares an rings, distracting the viewer from the beautiful scene.

Lighting is another issue here. This could use some ambient lighting. A dim low earth tone light to simulate bounce back from the ground, a dim light to capture the ambient light from the surrounding sky, and finally the high key rim light from the setting sun. Lighting can really make or break a piece. While this has a nice silhouette style going on, it needs a little realism.

Since the sky is a major impact part of this, I might have had some more interesting cloud formations as well.

Also her head sort of gets cut off be the tree foliage. Try placing the character in a place where nothing else competes with it's presence when working with silhouette style pieces. Her position next to the tree crowds the composition on the left a bit much as well.

But after a few tweaks, this piece could really shine. I see where you were going with this, and it has some definite promise.