Hey, Swade! Good to see some new work! Here's your dinner on a platter: The bump on your floor texture is going the wrong way. Invert it. You can see from where the sun's pointing and the shadows that the mortar troughs are actually ridges. The sky looks too purple, but that's a common Bryce issue for me. The shadows on the ground don't look dark enough to me. The bump on the column is too high and perhaps your material is "wrong" for it. I've never seen a column like that made out of granite - but who cares? ;o) It doesn't make sense to me that someone would go through the trouble of making such a column when the ridges they carve in it won't hold their shape very long (the high bump value makes the ridges look chipped and broken, but not really "weathered"). Also, for some reason, the column base looks 2D - I don't see enough light variation across its surface for it to look round to me. I like the three spiders in the background, but it took me way too long to see them. Until now, in fact. But that could just be me, of course. The trees on the right look like they have something that looks something like foliage and most of the trees on the left of the pillar look really bare. Also, the trees look too sparse and different to be living there together. I'd make them all more similar and maybe clump them a little bit so they're not so evenly distributed along the horizon line. What is this space with the tiled floor and one column and why is it out in the middle of nowhere? Showing at least a part of another column will help establish this more as a complete building of some sort and not just a floor with an old column standing next to it. The fog looks a little thick to me. Yes, i've seen fog like that, but only in real life - not in art. ;o) What i don't like about it is that it waters down the dynamic range of color on your figures. It makes them more wimpy - not dramatic enough (to connect with what others have said). The color of the sky, the direction of the light and the amount of fog make me think this is occuring in the morning. I think what feels odd to me is that i don't think i've ever seen a fantasy battle scene between something like an ogre and a scattered herd of giant spiders taking place in the morning - i think it just doesn't lend itself to dramatic action. Morning is more of a peaceful, tranquil, yawning-and-stretching time. Along the drama vein, i find that it's easy for me to get caught up in creating an entire landscape for my action or image instead of limiting the range of vision with camera angle, lighting, distance from subject or close objects that fill the frame in the background. Perhaps something like just changing the time of day to nighttime with strong moonlight in a partly cloudy sky so that areas of your landscape are visible in moonlight and the rest are darker and not requiring our attention. Something like that would focus our vision, supply more drama and eliminate extraneous and distracting details. There's my buck-fifty. Feel free to return any unused portion of this message if not fully satisfied. Cool image. I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops. If i notice anything else, i'll let you know. 8o)