Beautiful as always love.

I think it turned out wonderful for the your first attempt at something along this line.

I absolutely love the soft orange glow and how soft the green of nature looks as it creeps along the ancient building.

I like the river a look too, you did a great job on the reflections!

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Thanks bébé!

I'd probably still be scrutinizing over it right now if you didn't give me the courage to be finished with it and post it when I did!

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Looks awesome. Nice work ^_^

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holy DETAIL batman!
Nice composition, I like how the horizon slants down to the left but is straightened out by the towers, and the weight is balanced by the landscape in the foreground. And, aside from all the tiny little lines there's no clean edge to anything, very impressionistic.
And aside from technicalities, it's pretty too!

absolutely gorgeous <33 and holy shit, 12 hours of a speedy LOL.

Loving the composition, but I'm wishing you had included a bit more pinks and purples into the receeding sky to denote a sunset/sunrise, and to set off the yellow undertones the picture has. Work with your complementaries, color theory will always make a piece look much better (lol i was told the only thing that saved my godawful art was my use of color...and im quoting those words).

also, i like that things are very well defined, but perhaps they're defined backwards. Things close to you should be more uniform in shape and edges, while those redeecing get more hazy not only in color but also in the way you see their outlines.

Also, next time, don't use too much green for the water if the sky isn't close in hue. Water is reflective as well as its transparent, so even though the water might look one color upclose, from the distance at which we're looking at it, it'll reflect a great part of the sky color mixed with the water itself, which tends to be greenish blue, not simply green. Go to a nearby river during a sunset or late afternoon, and you'll see what I speak of.

Overall, great job!

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Wow! This turned out stupendously!!! I particularly like the water. It compliments the atmosphear of the city. Seems to help it look futureisticly ancient.

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It's funny you mention that, 'cause I'm actually pretty handy with color theory... Heh, I actually did quite bit of color correction (blue shift) on the background layers. Guess I didn't go far enough.
I was also thinking that this could be an off-world or post-apocalyptic scene, so the sky is actually orange, like Mars. Regardless, I agree this piece could use more color.

My idea for the detail level was to just simplify things as they got farther away, and I did reference some photos before I started, but I'mma do some more research.

Oh, I know exactly what you mean about the water.
I had originally put a layer of sky reflection on the water, but I guess I got a little lazy... I picked green to give the impression that even the water is full of plant life (algae) and sometimes water like that loses some reflectivity, but yeah, I probably should've left the sky color in.

Thanks for giving such a detailed critique!
I'm just a little embarrassed that I didn't better exhibit my artistic knowledge while I was working. This was more of an exercise in brush technique, so hopefully I'll do better next time...

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Oooooo...*hides my project of epic fail*

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<33 glad to hear.

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