Image 1 (Rider on the sand): The cat is looking directly out of the scene. My eye follows the direction of the cat's eyes and runs out of the picture, wonders where to go next... Image 2 (Awispa): Similar problem. What is she looking at? Image 3 (Temple guardian): Similar problem. (What is she guarding against?) Image 4 (Dress code): better, but still no action/centre of attraction. Would make a good fill-in pic in a comic. Unless you see the title and realise what it is you're looking for, there's no "focal point". .... Image 11 (Hunter hunted): Much better. Action, main focal point (the girl) 2ndary focal point (the enemy). So where am I going with this? - Hunt up some tutorials about "composition" (I had a couple, but lost the links, someone else here should know..). There are a lot of subtleties that can escape you unless you know to look for them. - I agree with all the above help. More expression in the faces etc. - (Possibly a monitor fault, yours or mine, I don't know), but I often couldn't see details 'cos the pics were too dark. However that's probably not too important at this point - Many of your pics seem to be of "Object A" placed "centre screen", with a background added. Composition again.. - Don't get hung up on techniques/tricks of rendering etc. A good composition far outweighs "detail" tricks. Errmm - I seem to be repeating myself (Composition,composition comp....) :-)) But a case in point. Take Image 4 (Dress code): A suggestion here: Try another render of this pic, after adding a light in the cockpit to show up the figure (in near full colour not shades of blue), see what difference that makes.. It should add impact..:-)) Sorry if I've gone on too long. I went through the whole of your gallery (and deliberately didn't look at any of the comments). I also did the initial comments without looking further through the thread (to keep my opinions from being biased by other replys). Anyway, hope that helps.. You're on the way, just need a better map...:-)) Cheers Diolma