there we go, critique time

the first thing that came to my attention about this piece is that I feel some sort of imbalance. apparently you made every figure to look distinctively like the party that they represent, and that's good, but it seems like the most dominating figure is the alien on the right. and at the same time this figure lacks any detail. In my opinion you should better plan out which of your figures is supposed to be dominant, and perhaps also figure out a counterpart, an opponent to it.
Working on the scale will also help with that. I don't really see why the pirate captain should be smaller than the seemingly human girl. You could do that if you meant to caricature, but then you should also exceggerate the expressions and such.
I'd rather make the alien small and instead make the mech guy bigger and more threatening you really need to bring out the characteristics of the characters that you chose. that would also include the facial expressions of the figures, as they are key to how the image looks to the viewer. The girl's pose for example looks as if she is thinking about how to proceed, but her face does not really convey that.
also the figures all have some anatomical insecurities, but that's rather a minor thing here.

what I'd really love to see are colours. this could look really fresh with some bold colours that underline the theme of a tabletop game, as they usually have really strong colours. the grey takes away from the life that this scenery could have go for it and try to paint in some strong colours.
and last but not least, indicate a little bit of a surrounding behind them. not much, just some thin lines that could describe a room and thus give the whole thing some depth and perspective.

It's okay already, but I think you could really take this a good deal further

Daniel

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Hi Daniel,

Thank you for your critique. I never make good plans how to compose drawings, I should definitely work on that. Facial expressions are important as well. I will have to experiment a little. Colour and backgrounds, they both sort of scare me, but that's no excuse of course

Anyway thanks, Maarten