[DJorgensen]

I have just been working on a new piece here, testing out some new techniques and generally trying to improve.

Initially I did a quick sketch just to define what areas were going to be what, decided on a mountain / volcano theme for the background, and a pond / forest for the foreground.
The image size is much larger than this at 6000x5000 px.

Here it is after about 90 min,


After this point I used terragen to generate a few hills, and the volcano. I used them as a template to paint in a landscape that would be practical.

This is at about 4 hours (not including rendering the landforms in terragen)


I am still working on it, fleshing out the backround and adding some depth to the scene. I have yet to add in the forest and foliage in the foreground, and a whole ton of detailing yet to go.

Any crits or suggestions would be great however.
I will post the progress as it comes along.

Thanks
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[DJorgensen]

So I have done work on a volcano and some hills.
Also touched up the person in the image, and cropped it.

I think that the crop makes it more dramatic. Other than that I am still plucking away at it here... slowly.

I am going to redo the sky and likely add in some sort of fog to increase the sense of distance. I still have the foreground to go - which means adding in trees, bushes and foliage, and as well the pond.

Crits and comments and suggestions are welcome.
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[Walkaer]

Mr DJorgensen sir! Great start!

I couple things to watch out for:
(1) the bottom edge of the "fuzzy" hills in the middle ground seem to OVERLAP the foreground, as opposed to sit behind it. (I understand you mention that you haven't gotten to the foreground yet, so I imagine you'll be sure to address that)

(2) I really like your nymph, and here's why. She's really crisp. And when things are in the foreground, they are more saturated in color, they have more contrast, and they're less blurry. The only other place in your picture where things pop like that are the clouds (the objects that are the farthest away from your viewer and in the background)*.

*that being said; i still really like your clouds. Their stylizedness is really quite charming. So I'm not sure what my advice would be regarding them.

Anyway; good start -- I look forward to seeing what you have when you finish =)
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[Sumaleth]

DJorgensen, are you going for a realistic or abstract style here?

It's very abstract at the moment. There's no sense of depth, and nothing is shaded realistically. But that might be what you're going for, which is why I asked.
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