Watercolor mountain fortress

[hrothgar]

I have little experience with watercolors but I like them. Details were thrown in with black ink and a steel pen, took longer than it looks ;)
Please give me some crits

This is concept art for The SoulKeeper (http://www.thesoulkeeper.com) btw.

http://home.arcor.de/oskarschwermer/SKWaterEnv2.jpg

[Kartoffel]

Well, I can't help you much with the watercolor-part, since I'm also kind of a beginner with them yet.

But the composition is kind of bad, sorry. The tower is pretty centered and the whole picture is kind of symmetrical. Plus, the rocks in the foreground have very triangular shapes.
I would suggest you to work on a better composition first and THEN try to work with your watercolors on top of it, because if the composition isn't good its almost impossible to make a good painting out of it, even if you are a real mater at your medium.

[look]

Part of the sky is nice, but the other parts are too distincted between colors. I suggest try to color the sky and use different colors while the other ones are still wet, it might help to achieve a different blended effect.
I like the pink and slight cyan hue on the tower, but even with the different tint, it still failed to stand out against the rocks in the foreground. I think the rocks could use a much darker shading.
Also the towers are leaning toward one side, and current perspective doesn't quite work. I mean the perspective on the tower suggest we are looking up at it from a low ground, but somehow it felt we should be looking at it with a leveled ground, or a ground that's even higher than the tower. If you intend to make the viewer look at the tower as if we are at a low ground, try to bring the tower up more, give it a more dynamic perspective.

[hrothgar]

Thanks for the crits guys :rendered: I'll try to improve on composition

[Danilo]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/recevic/dvorac-rework.jpg

If you dont mind, I have changed something. About watercolours, if you use it alot you will find that they are wery thankfull. Now there is not lot of water colour. Try to use it without over-lines. Pull the maximum from the medium:)

[hrothgar]

Oh yeah I see... it really looks better that way, thanks Danilo :)