Hey lookat this

[Dr Fred Rubacant Edison]

I haven't been working on this project i was taking a little break from it.

Look at this Background. This is the start of the plant room.

What do you think about the plants and do you think the left side one looks ok.

[cyen]

The plant on the left doesn't look like a plant to me.  You need to give it more definition, more shape, more contrast.  Right now, it looks like a blob with lines drawn all over it.  I suggest look at bushes and potted plants and do some sketches based on your observations.  The plant on the right looks definitely more plant-like.  I don't know if it's intentional or not, but the plant looks flat at the moment because the way you're arranging the leaves. 

I know this is probably a work in progress so maybe you already considered some of the points I made so please don't feel offended by my critique.  The background looks pretty nice so far.  I rather like the complementary colors you used, but the objects look flat.  I see you're trying to make the pot a bit more rounded, but the other objects in the room (like the grey basket? and the brown counter) have no volume.  The flatness of the furniture is even more apparent when you compare them to the door and windows, which have highlights and shading.

[OneDollar]

There seems to be a few mixes in style, with the windows being done in a kind of Maniac Mansion/Zak McKracken way and a high colour texture on the floor, with everything else somewhere between the two. I'd also suggest the shading was a little off on the door frame/outer edge of the door in the middle of the screen as there doesn't seem to be any particular light direction on it. Anyway, you might still be working on all those areas.

I'll second most of what Cyen said about the plants, the one on the right looks good but flat and the one on the left doesn't look much like a plant, and also looks flat. The right hand plant has a darker outline, so why not use the same on the left, as it won't jump out as much. I'd have a go at using just your shading tones to try and define volume on the left plant, rather than using the outline colour all over it like that. You could use the outline colour in smaller amounts, but connecting all the lines makes it seem like your plant is made of lots of irregularly shaped blocks. For the right plant I'd try to get more overlap in the leaves where they meet the stem, so it doesn't seem like they're all coming from the sides. You need to work on the shading of the pots too, your band of light is horizontal which makes the plant pots look flat. You need to curve the shading around the pot, and probably put more of a curve on the base of the left pot too.

Overall its well on the way to being a very good background

[InCreator]

Suggestions:

* Fix plants
* Fix angles. Look at the plant pots! Make them either flat or give 3D angle, not BOTH!
* Shade opposing walls
* Why put plant infront of the window like this? This kills the whole purpose of a window?
* Use eye-friendlier colors. Your colors are extremely contrasty, dark and saturated. Why?
* Don't use black outlines on plant pots and corners.

This bg has potential, but needs some further work.