nah it ain't crappy. it's pretty wicked actually. did a good job to me

Thanks, always nice to hear c:
I just have rediculously high standards for myself, so iunnolol. It feels like I could have done a lot better.

nah, nah, it's good

It's good :3

I like the glare from the sky

ytankyu

it is rather well done, the only thing I can think to suggest is giving some sense of life to the picture, by having some silhouettes of birds, pterodactyls or something.
The colour scheme is well balanced, lighting believable. Just I dunno, there's just something missing that just doesn't pull me in. >.>

as you said, it`s absent of life
there ar not even any plants

any way, very nice!!!

Mm, that's a good idea. I was contemplating putting a person hiking the trail, but I opted not to as I suck at people. But yeah, my biggest problem with it is that it's just...there. The lighting works, but it doesn't DO anything for anyone.

I'll keep working at it!

The only thing I see is that wall hanging off the cliff, it would collapse in real life and that bothers me for some reason.

Nuh uh >:V

I like it, in fact it gets a fave~

The drawing itself is done well and the place looks realistic and believable.

All that I think it's missing is some sense to make it look alive in any way, be it from animals or maybe any movement in nature such as wind, etc. and I think the buildings in the back need a lil' more altering to not look like crackers. XD

Still, good job on this one. =D

Hahaha cracker buildings. I'l keep it in mind X3

And yeah, I'll be sure to add some plants and living things in the future. Thanks for the comment and fave c:

I know I'm speaking from a non-artist's perspective here, but... I can't describe how envious I am of the idea of being able to do something like this in three hours!

Just grab GIMP or something and paint! Really the hardest part about these is starting out.

Bin there, done that, it did not end well.......i has no talent.

Srsly, this is very nice Aden. Would make a good back ground to build on.

I dunno, I kinda like this. It might be a bit odd in detail, but the general concept seems to all be there for a speed-paint image.

I think my favorite part is the whole "and then it went boom" aspect.

ker-pow and such

I wish I was more experienced and knew how to flesh out details. Thinking some planning out linework beforehand might do some good :V

Maybe! Never done it myself, but it sounds like a good idea

The rocks look great, in my opinion; I could almost see this being used as a matte painting in a pro production. I could tell something is off, but not sure what - I'm not a 2D artist, so I figured that throwing a few primitives and a sun in a box would help me figure out why I can't troubleshoot this. I was right! The style is great, the problems are technical: secondarily, perspective, and primarily, lighting.

Because the camera is tilted, the image needs a vanishing point, in this case far below-frame, but nevertheless still causing off-center vertical lines to appear slanted. The profile of the midground is important in this piece, and the ramrod-straight vertical profile of the bricks is incorrect - should be slanted - and confuses the viewer's sense of where they are in space. The profile would become vertical at some point, but with this point of view, would need a lens below 35mm, which would have noticeable fish-eye effect.

Chiaroscuro is a neat artistic technique, but the heavy shadow is at odds with bright outdoor ambient lighting. The technique would work here, impressionistically, if the light and shadow were geometrically consistent, but as of now it's accentuating the inconsistency - the shadow is clearly showing a sun almost behind the scene, but the diffuse and specular lighting are clearly showing the sun to the right. See attached.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3315946/

Keeping these theories in mind doesn't take any time to implement in a particular piece, but does take years of practice to get an innate feel for. One of the main reasons I like letting a rendering algorithm do my perspective and lighting for me.

Ah, this is what I needed! This is a great help. It's really good to get someone else's perspective on the things I worry about because it's like that acclimation effect that distorts my pespective as the artist. Now that I have that perspective, I can see that fixing the foremost shadow of the left cliff would be a major benefit to the piece.

Keeping everything you said in mind, I think it can all be solved by having a longer planning stage. The planning for this one was all in my head and basically went "UH WHELP I GUESS THERE WILL BE SOME ROCKS HERE AND A CLIFF BACK THERE OKAY GO :B".

I may take you up on that 3D sketch preplanning thing, but maybe not. My brain is making me think of it as cheating, in a way (if that makes any sense)...? But hey, rock on, fellow Blender user :3

Thanks again for taking the time to crit

no problemo. I see what you mean about the cheating thing. Perhaps it's better for the learning process to guess-and-check rather than reference.

Could be. I haven't tried both yet, really. I have this whole thing about myself where I don't like to use help - art references, music teachers, the like. I'm weird :V

But hey, if I'm ever stuck, I may do the 3D thing :D

Gahahaha, I feel exactly the same way about most help; this must be why we use Blender. Though, the complete lack of documentation on the higher-end features is a disservice to the community, and I might write some content for the wikibook after 2.5 gets stable and I use it for a bit. I am ass-tired of having to read dev notes for any info on the more recently-coded features, and also of getting hits only in the source code when I google for error messages.

Haha
Well at least it's usually not THAT hard to figure stuff out by playing around a bit

Crazy fennec is crazy.

noU B:

Wow.. that's a good looking 3-hour piece O:

Ehhh, I'm not happy with it at all, but I'm really hard on myself (my par is like those concept artists' 1-hour pieces that look amazing). :B Thanks grom :D

Well, you've been improving so much. The better you get though, the more technical and crazy things get, the more you understand you haven't mastered, etc, etc...

I can't offer any critique or anything, since I don't even know how to begin on a landscape. Still a nice looking work.

What I'm trying to say is that you make stuff that's in the 98th percentile of FA. So kudos :D

\:3/ thanks grommmm