How do I fix my environment concept. critique wanted
2yr
Fish
The parts I am struggling with is perspective, the ocean, color, and composition. I tried using a rough blender model to use as a guide but ended up just guessing most of the perspective. I have no clue how to paint water. How does water reflect light, what shapes are created, and how transparency in water works. The color and composition looks wrong. I dont know why. How do I get the bug in the middle to stand out more? 
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Steve Lenze
Hey Fish, cool concept. The best way to know how to paint water is to use reference. As far as the perspective is concerned, You need to create a vanishing point on the horizon line for each house. Your composition is also very heavy on the left, and you should balance it out by adding something to the right side. I did a quick, ugly sketch to show you what I'm getting out. Hope this helps :)
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Fish
2yr
I'm still not sure if it looks right. especially the new boats that I added.
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Dan B
The colours look ok, just a bit overall on the cool side and neutral (which is fine as long as there's some more saturated colours in areas you want to highlight). I would definitely brighten up the bug with warm orange/reds and perhaps make the roofs of the houses warmer too. Compositionally, the house at the lower right sort of feels like it's interrupting the flow from the bugs in the water to the main bug. Try moving it more out of the scene to see the beach, then you can move the bugs more into the scene instead of where they are which feels a bit squished in. Hope that's helpful, composition is hard and I really like your concept and style here, great work!
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Fish
2yr
Did I do it? Is it better?
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