I'm not going to lie, these are terrible. However I noticed you tried smudging instead of adding random C4D's, which I can definitely appreciate. I'll point out the more obvious flaws which should dramatically improve the quality of your work. 1) Most of your works lack good flow. When looking at them, my eyes get confused and don't know where to go. I'll explain... You'll notice that in the picture the woman's arms form a line, as I've shown, which is perfect! Most beginners end up choosing stocks or renders with bad flow already in them, but this one practically has it laid out for you! You should have followed her arms, but instead you went across her stomach. This is confusing because people will follow your line at first, from the left to the right, then see her arms are moving at a 45 degree angle to your line and get confused. Subconsciously, of course. If you would have had the smudging follow her arms, it would be much easier to look at. Again, your flow contradicts with the implied flow, but this time yours is almost perpendicular to the real flow! While working on your next tag you should definitely keep flow in mind and try to pick a render or stock that already has an obvious flow; otherwise you're just making more work for yourself. 2) Take off that white layer. As already said, it really washes out the colors of your piece and makes it look boring. 3) You should really learn to work with easier color schemes before attempting a rainbow. Try something easy like a blue and orange or possibly a triadic color scheme like orange, violet and green. But you should really know how to work two or three colors well before you attempt to use them all :P I think if you considered those three things while working on your next tag it will look significantly better. :) EDIT: Oh, and get rid of the lightning. I mean, come on, you'd have to be a REALLY good artist to make a lightning stock look good :lol: