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This is an experiment with landscape painting. I need to get better at that.

critique on composition or the usage of light would be marvelous as I would love to advance in my craft.
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This is beautiful. Is this really digital? It almost looks like traditional chalk/pastel. :hug:

I love this style of drawing, very gentle & expressive. I think you should keep making more of these for fun in different landscapes & such. If you were a local artist I would definitely request a piece from you.

Looking at this I would say you need to work a bit on your depth. The mountains in the back are much too crisp (although pretty), especially the furthest ones. They should be much less sharp & less saturation as well as colours - especially warms. Save the bright warms for a sunrise or sunset & not on the shaded side. (I'm assuming the light is coming more from the left)

The clouds look a touch separated from the scene due to them not having any warm tones (like the mountains do). You could bring them into the scene a bit by reflecting a tiny bit of colour from the mountains, on to them.

The flying creature (dragon?) in the background has a beautiful sillhouette but is a bit out of place. When I don't zoom in, it looks like a black splotch. When I do, I see the detail you've worked on to outline it. You should try to bring it into the scene a bit, perhaps giving some hints of colour, outline. Not too much though; remember if it's far back it'll be less saturated/contrasted.

If the stones in the center are the main focus then they need to be sharper & a bit more in contrast/highlights. Right now they're about as 'blurry' as the rest of the scene so the eyes don't stay on them very long. A bit stronger lining and they would -pop- much more nicely & steal the show.

As a future note, it might have been good to bring them down a touch so they're in the lower half of the painting. This would keep the foreground interesting as well. An alternative might be to stick a 'pointing' stone in one of the lower thirds foreground area (kind of how you did w/ the dragon in the background) so the lone stone (or object) subtlety points to the group.

I hope this helped! :hug: