Artstation Environment Challenge

jackalope · Apr 2017

I am participating in the Ancient Civilizations: Lost & Found challenge.
This is the concept I started from:

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/media_assets/images/images/000/082/098/medium/tuareg1mission.jpg?1489439606

it's by Marceau Nakayama, and you can find more of his work here

Here is what I have so far

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/s6/4mw7be7sxrvs.jpg

There are eleven days left in the challenge so I am going into polish. Any opinions on how i can push it further would be appreciated.
Thanks!

hmm_rock · Apr 2017

Looking good, but your lighting is doing the face rock no favors. It should be one of the focal points of the scene but if I didn't know there was supposed to be a face there I'd never be able to pick it out. The moon(?) light needs to be rotated around where it's either hitting the front plane of the face more, or at least rim lighting it more intensely. It's always a good idea to check dark scenes on different monitors, while it may be perfectly readable on yours, I think it's better to err on the side of brightening the scene a bit.