Kowloon
Helloooo. I made some lighting tweaks to my Kowloon environment. I've been studying great night scenes on ArtStation and finally utilising the blessed Win+Ctrl+C hotkey for making images greyscale. Lighting is actually way harder to get right than I initially thought.
This is my first polycount post, and I'm but a humble fledgling who finished his studies around a month ago. I post on ArtStation, LinkedIn and on Discord servers and stuff, but never really considered polycount so I'm adding on hopefully a new stream of eyeballs on my work. I know I can say it's done done I'm not going to touch it but then find something to fix and I fix it. So if you have any brutal critiques of my work then I'll take on the challenge.
This is the reference moodboard I used. Its had its reuse over the few months I worked on this project.
The project: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bg2nEn
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No brutal critique, just critique here.
The composition of the scene is alright, but the image feels flat. I would change contrast settings, change framing of the scene, add vignette. Highlight your main subjects with light in a more interesting way. Get some feeling of moisture in the air with volumetric lights, divide middleground and background add some supporting green color, play with wetness and specularity on objects.
Also, check vertex normals on your staircase. it looks very low-poly and that is why shading on it is super soft.
Good luck.