Those are looking really nice, I'm digging the over all color and hand painted-ness. The brick and wall blending looks a bit strange, like they were carved out of a stone wall and just left half finished. You might want to add some textural differences in the stone surface and the brick surface.
Here is another update. Gonna start work on the next one, but continue to crit. I Fixed the tiling, the crack in the wall can be turned on or off in photoshop. Tried to make the bricks bit more 3d but still retain that "covered in stucco" feel. I also added subtle textures to the wall and bricks and upped the contrast and…
Hey man, right now i'd say you need to work on making the bricks feel 3d. Right now they feel tacked on, like pieces of paper or cardboard pasted to a wall, and not bricks sticking out. Here's a really quick paintover to show what i mean. Also i kind of prefer the more painterly look of the first image you posted, it might…
The start here seems muddy, like there's a lot of smudging going on. Shapes needing more definition, and a few harder edges here and there to make things pop. Colors seem pretty good, a lot going on there. What I would do is when starting a texture like this, create masks for the basic shapes, like the bricks for window,…
I guess I should mention that I can't model anything. They are just to be projected onto flat planes, so modeling a window or any bricks for that matter is out of the question. I'll take out some of the more noticeable texture repetition (cracks) and start refining the shapes and defining them a bit more. So far the entire…
Your main area to work on is rendering. Your values are all over the place and work against your original light-source. It looks like you over-did the bricks and lost the simple-yet-effective rendering of the earlier version. Keep your back-light darker than the local-value. I would also suggest considering a…
It's definitely improving, I like where you're going with this, but I just can't help but feel like those bricks seem out of place. I get the feeling like some are melting into the wall, some are just stuck on there, and some just cut off midway through. Maybe it's just me. The color variation also kind of throws me on a…
Hey everyone thank you so much for the critiques and comments! I'll look more into adding some textural difference between the bricks and the "stucco" so that it blends a little better. I'll work the colors a bit more and then fix the tiling. I'm working at 2048x2048 right now and the final version will be scaled down to…