zx52hg, here's what I tried to do with yours

I thought the main problem here was value, everything is around a mid value, which really flattens out a painting. Maybe try to play around with how you can put dark versus light shapes, it can really help you make your stuff read. I also thought your painting was a bit oversaturated, which led to two things: 1. Hard to read and 2. doesn't work too well with the postapocalyptic scenery. So what I did was desaturate it and then separate the silhouettes by changing the values a bit. Things also tend to get more desaturated the further they are away, that's not always true but since saturated things pop out it's a good thing to have it in the back of your head

To further break up the shapes and have more light vs dark overlap I added that lighting from the side, just to make the value pattern more interesting and to separate the forground from the middleground a bit.
Media doesn't really have anything to do with it, the principles of painting are the same in traditional and digital, so don't worry about that
It might be a good idea for you to just do some more observation painting, and observe how light and contrast behave in reality, trust me, it really helps
And SouMeng, damn that moon really helped it D: Thanks!!
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