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#1

Hi! This is my first attempt with matte painting. Hope you like it. Thanks :slight_smile:
Valentina

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#2

hi Valentina, weolcome to this forum, there are a couple of things I see in your image that can be improved
first, the visual composition , the focal node is your city I see but I think it is too close to the right edge, also you ahve lots of detail but the skyscrapers look blury
you have some wrong values in blacks in your background left mountain, it should be darker than the dark values in your sky, the city also has a smoky look that is probably due to a fog or atmosphere you painted over but it is not even all over the city making it look odd
of this can be helpful , you can take a look at some interesting tutorials in the tutorial ssection in this same matte painting forum,. read the visual composition and landscape composition rules, you will learn a lot with those

#3

Hi Jaime, thank you for your feedback, i’m tried to change the things that you have write, with the mountains darker and changing the skyscrapers less blurred and towards the centre, there are two modified versions, one with more sunlight and the other without the sunlight, which is better? thanks again

#4

Hi Valentina, well this is looking better than the first one, if you take a look at your background sky, it has a strong blue tone in the shadow side, if you add a little blue to the shadow leves in your background , middleground mountains those will look more integrated as one image and will match the overall mood , feeling,
photo integration can be tricky but it just take time to work and work more so your eye can later tell all the issues you images might have,
anyway this is a great approach for a first time matte painting, keep´em coming !

#5

Hi Jaime, thank you for your answer, i’ve tried to do more light the sky of background, hope that now is better integrated. Thank you again for the feedback :slight_smile:

#6

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