Iron Tower

Concept art for KIR. Work in progress, I might color it.

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Good, but nothing very interistyng... colore it.

Well, the tower thing looks flat, the rocks are just half assly placed, and the design on the building doen't really look that great or serve any purpose whatesoever. Don't take this as a flame, just try to improve off of what it is. I'd first work on perspective.

Not too bad. The individual pieces aren't too bad in and of themselves, bu when you have them arranged the way you do, the result is decidedly less than the sum of its parts.

The rocks don't look too bad; the angularity and shapes make them look convincing. The detailwork on the tower is rather nice; not unlike celtic knotwork, if unstructured at it.

However, the way you've placed these elements destroys any illusion of depth. In real-world physics, because of the atmospheric blue, objects which have less contrast recede whilst those with greater contrast are brought forward. Your tower is of the greatest contrast, yet you've placed it both behind and in front of the rocks. The eye is confused and the viewer isn't left with a real sense of scale or what is going on. Work on some quick thumbnails concentrating on composition before you get too involved with details.

I think that if I were to improve on it, I wouldn't necessarily rely on the cliffs too much. After all, this is a tower, not a bulwark, and having it nestled in those rocks like that detract from the concept of a tower. If you want this to be a massive and impressive thing, put it in the background and have it a muted grey against the sky. Rely on the outline of the tower to describe its shape and character, not its interior details. Put the viewer closer to the ground level with those rocks in front and within the immediate foreground, perhaps so much so that they are reduced to silhouettes. You want a tower to be a massive and singularly monolithic presence, and putting it in a flat plain emphasizes its perpendicularity. Putting the viewer on the ground instead of above the tower adds a great deal to its intimidating presence, as we are forced to look up at it as its subjugates, rather than the other way around.

Hope that helps. Good luck with it!

thanks for the comments :)

Design of the tower reminds me of ornaments from Stargate :P

do you mean, the ornaments on the goa'uld's pharao statue? or the goa'uld's ornaments generally? mhh... it's true, there are some resemblances...