Hey Dennis! Great work, I see a lot of progress in your art! For some feedback on these pieces: - Values: I notice some attention spent on the separation of foreground, midground, and background, which is great. Just keep checking your values in greyscale so they still read clearly as values alone. I think with the last one especially the greys get pretty close to each other so the value clarity is lost a bit, so just double checking it and pushing the value distinction as a result can help. - Focal point: I also notice that you've put smaller/sharper details in the foreground and broader strokes in the background, which is good to draw the attention to the foreground. You do also want to be careful with other potential distractions from this though, such as texture and contrast. The digital brushes used, especially in paintings #1 and #3, add the same level of texture to the foreground as to the background, making their distinction less clear. It's best to pick only a key places to really emphasize texture instead, especially where you want to draw the eye. As for contrast, you also want to pick the area to use the highest amount of contrast, and areas where less contrast is used. For example, in painting #2, it seems like the foreground was given more contrast deliberately with the sharper brush, detail, and value contrast, but the background is also competing due to the sharp value contrast of the mountain and white cloud. Bringing the background's values closer together could bring back the attention to the foreground, I hope this is helpful, let me know if you have any questions!