yes thank you not what i was hoping for but great to be told something at least i know i suck lol. ya i agree about the 2 or 3 badly i'm mainly learning bryce didn't care for poser to much but i'm trying to learn 3ds max so i have something other then just backgrounds. thanks again for the response please people don't stop telling me it sucks or what it needs to improve because you are scared my feelings could get hurt. trust me it will take alot more then that to hurt my feelings this is a hobby i suck i suck if i'm good i'm good

while the image is ok for a newbie, its a little boring! you could have done so much more with it , why have no background ? some far off mountains or a distant shoreline would add so much to the picture ,stepping stones in the middle of an ocean? where have they come from? The title " the tree of life " promises so much but then you use a bog standard tree straight out of the presets ! and the sky is the same, play around with the dials,create your own,try adding some mist give the illusion of depth,basically dont rely to much on presets try and be original I know what its like trying to get a response from your work , and a little criticism helps a hell of a lot when your learning ,I too am self taught, and many will say it shows ,but its easy to pick fault ,harder to explain how to improve your work as art is in the eye of the beholder, but that said you should see some of my early work ! ( some of the later pieces for that! )they was pathetic ! keep at it ,and learn to use one application well rather than 2 or 3 badly . hope its been an help .

I'm now naming this a work in progress but also i havn't really got the hang of putting things off in the distence ie mountains i never get them to turn out right

Ive been using Bryce for 6 months or so myself and with me it is also an hobby so i can appreciate how hard it can be sometimes. This picture is nice concept, the idea has many possibilities. Maybe some of these suggestions will help you:) Try a small terrain in place of the stone for placing the tree you can give more form and texture to a terrain, work on the terrain in the editor with the dampen and erode tools and brushes, and change the grid to a finer grid for if you use it in the foreground. Try a material with several tones and up the bump height a little. Making the tree larger would give it more impact as it is the centre piece of the picture. Give the tree material a small amount of specularity and high light it with a light, try colouring the light for effect. Another terrain in the distance (I find using the arrow keys helps me to position it better, resize it until it looks right compared to other elements), connected with the stepping stones try angling the stepping stones between the two to give a better sense of distance. A really nice attempt.:)

to tell you the truth hawk i did change the rock the tree sets on to a small terrain this morning i changed the sky around alot added a beach an was working on a large mountian in the background which i just have alot of troble with when my computer crashed an lost everything i don't know how i can be dangerlessy low on resources when i have a 1 gig amd thunderbird 640 mb of ddr ram 20 gig harddrive with 5 gig left on it but thanks for the comments i'm giving it a shot