Hey Asian Sam! Thanks for sharing. I think your work shows tremendous promise, and is already at a saleable (or hirable) level. You asked specifically for us to point out strengths and weaknesses, so here goes: Strenghts -- Your 3D form is consistently solid and accurate looking, without looking overly labored or technical. That's great! It's also very cool to see a variety of subject matter, demonstrating you can pull that aesthetic off with more than one thing - in this case, from creatures to robots to costumed figures. I also enjoy how your color doesn't appear formulaic, and that you seem comfortable working in different keys and color palettes/harmonies. Weaknesses -- I'll focus on one main thing that could be improved: your lighting design. First I want to say that the forms here *do* appear solid, which means your lighting is at least serviceable. Before you read on, I want to make sure I say that your lighting isn't "wrong" or "bad." It is, however, not quite hitting the aesthetics of lighting that, say, filmmakers or photographers would be aiming for. Namely, in most of these, the light direction, as well as the type of lighting (hard/soft/diffuse, etc.) is not immediately apparent, and forces my brain to whir for a bit too long before I can settle in and simply enjoy the design. You want your lighting to reveal your design in the strongest way possible, and to that end, there are a few things I think you could try -- 1) Separate your light and shadows more. Build in more value contrast into your images. Take the 4th dragon image there (that green dude seen from a low angle against the blue sky.) I think that image would be much more powerful (lighting-wise) if you lowered the value of the shadows, thereby revealing bigger graphic shapes of light that would pop. This would occur in real life too, given this natural light. Currently there is an equal amount of visual information in both your light and shadow families, and I'd submit that viewers tend to get overloaded when equal amounts of information is presented like that. So, as a way to shake things up, try doing an image where you reveal 90% of the information in light (thereby massing the shadows into deep, soft darks -- look up Phil Hale for some great inspiration here.) Then try another where you reveal 90% of the information in shadow (likely this entails crushing the light side up to near-white, so you have lots of 'exposure' in the shadows. Drew Struzan did this quite often in his work.) 2) Have you ever played around with 3D software? That may be the best way to get a sense for how lighting works with staging. I say 3D software rather than just getting some real lights because in 3D you can easily toggle the type of light you're using (it'd be very expensive to own all that gear IRL) and you can move the light around and see near-realtime results. Grab yourself a copy of Blender - or better yet, something with preloaded models and lighting setups, like Anatomy360 - and just start moving lights around, playing with different ways of revealing the subject. One video that may be particularly inspiring is this one, by Creative Shrimp: https://youtu.be/5WjAXWjCJsY (Ignore the technical 3D talk when it comes up; just focus on what the lighting is doing!) 3) Use your choice of lighting to play with lost & found. One great way to deliver imagery quickly and impactfully is to lose information where you don't need it. For example, in your last image (the guy holding the shield), I would ask myself how many of those buckles and straps we need to see in their full glory. Likely we do not need to see all of them equally, as it is currently. There is, I think, lots of room to render a few of them fully, and let some of the other ones get lost (in shadow, for instance) and piggy-back on the more rendered ones. Viewers are incredibly good at filling in information - it's one of our brain's primary functions, actually! So exploiting that in your image-making almost always makes for improved work. All right, I think that's all from me. I hope some of these tips help. Keep on rockin'!