A beautiful beach

[Bodrius]

Just trying to make a beautiful beach for my still no-titled game. My first attemp on water and plants

What do you think?

[monkey0506]

Okay...first thing I noticed was the leaves are BRIGHT. On the palms. Palms tend to have darker leaves. Reference

The next thing I noticed was that the beach chair looks more like a comfy couch cushion. Reference

Then I noticed that the water doesn't touch the beach. However, from what I assumed are the beach umbrellas, I'm guessing this is higher up on the beach?

[EDIT:]

Oh...and, nice job. It just needs a bit more work

[Evil]

The textures could use some evening out. The shading on the leaves and the chair are very blured, but the trunk of the tree, box and wood pile (white thing?) are all very sharp. The rocks under the tree could use some darker shadows, and the far islands need a beach line.

[EagerMind]

This is a great start! For the most part I agree with monkey and Evil.

What strikes me most is the differences between the dark and the bright leaves. I think it's a little too much. The couple of bright leaves in the front really distracts me from the rest of the piece.

The trunk of the big tree doesn't look quite right. The texture and coloring looks more like stone than wood. And it needs some shading to make it look round. The smaller  trees in the background look great!

I think the real problem with the beach chair is that the top and bottom parts are inconsistent. The top, where you lean back against, looks cushiony like monkey said. But the bottom, where the feet would dangle off, just kind of ends. If it's meant to be cushiony, the bottom end needs some thickness. If it's supposed to be flat, you need to remove the thickness from the sides.

Until monkey mentioned it, I also didn't realize the back of the beach wasn't the waterline. It needs something - maybe shading, or more of a sense of sloping down to the water - to make it clear that there's more beach that's out of view. If you removed the other umbrellas you wouldn't be able to tell at all that there's supposed to be more beach.