Portfolio Critique Please!

Felsmoothie

Hi everyone! I am currently looking for a full-time job as an environment artist.
I would like to hear any feedback and critique for single work or the whole portfolio!
I plan to add one UE5 relighting piece to it recently. Should I add or remove any other pieces?

Portfolio Link: https://beiqiliu.artstation.com/albums/1900433

Ashervisalis

I like it. Keep pushing forward, for sure, keep improving, but its definitely a hireable portfolio. Main crit is your watermelon house could use better texturing/material definition, and your texturing on your snow enviro could be a little more focused (it looks stylized but some areas, like the ground in front of the dock, have a little too much noise). The snow could also fall a lot slower I think.

Felsmoothie

Ashervisalis said:

I like it. Keep pushing forward, for sure, keep improving, but its definitely a hireable portfolio. Main crit is your watermelon house could use better texturing/material definition, and your texturing on your snow enviro could be a little more focused (it looks stylized but some areas, like the ground in front of the dock, have a little too much noise). The snow could also fall a lot slower I think.

Wow This is so encouraging for me after receiving tons of rejection emails. Thank you for your critique! Sure I will keep improving my snow project I was planning to do it more stylized (like Darksiders Genesis) but somehow it turns out more realistic.

Ashervisalis

Rejection emails are going to happen a lot, its best to get used to them!

JohannesAg

I think your texturing in general is a little simplistic, you could def revisit the coffee machine and the scale and take things further in that area, good textures are super important. I like the ice material, it looks nice. I´m not getting a clear direction of what style you´re going for with the snowy scene, do you have a concept you're following or are you making it up yourself?

Felsmoothie

JohannesAg said:

I think your texturing in general is a little simplistic, you could def revisit the coffee machine and the scale and take things further in that area, good textures are super important. I like the ice material, it looks nice. I´m not getting a clear direction of what style you´re going for with the snowy scene, do you have a concept you're following or are you making it up yourself?

With the snowy scene, I do not have a specific concept, but for style, I was trying to approach this.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Jl1ZVD
As for texture, probably make the coffee machine more used/old or adding things like a logo? 
Thank you for your advice!