evaluation of my environmental piece

this is the comparison between my work and the work that inspired me.

the piece of art above is my final piece for environmental concept art, i have used two color tones to shade my work (red and green) to give it a very depressing ghostly feel as it represents a office looking threw the eyes of a mad man/woman or someone who has seen some things that have mentally effected there vision of the world. the way i have achieved this is by keeping the lines light and the shadows strong. 

first i draw the basic sketch lightly on a A4 page in my sketch book, once i was happy with the overall design  i took a HD image with my camera from a distance so that my shadow would not obstruct the sketch.

once i had the sketch in photoshop i changed the base tone to a dark green to start the ghostly claustrophobic feeling.

the fire:

the first is not behind glass it is mearly behind a steel Gothic styled grid allowing it to rage and flicker into the room giving a sense of danger as there really is nothing to stop it setting the whole room ablaze, it is also the only light sauce in the room and because of this some disturbing shadows are formed on the desk but the person has to move closer or else they have to face what is in the darkness.

the face in the mirror:

i based the face in the mirror on a story i once heard about rem sleep, the story goes when you are in rem sleep there is a shadowy figure watching over you and if you look into a mirror while trying to escape him your soul will be ripped from your body and you will become the shadowy watcher(the shadowy watcher is describe as a shadow of a man with small red eyes and a disturbing smile.

the shadow on the table:

the shadow on the table is coursed by the untamed light of the fire and is in the shape of man with holes where his eyes are suppose to be, this is to show that the man who sits in this chair is turning a blind eye to all the messed up things that are going on around him and in doing so has made him self unnoticeable this is why there is figure of him in the chair.

the hand, the monster in the bin and the eyes in the desk:

these three parts of the image are to show the onlookers inner demons for example the hand represents the persons desire to escape by he cant, the eyes are his/ her feeling of always being watched and the demon in the bin shows they are scared of disposing of any of there past.

this is a image of the art that inspired me.

good points:
even through my piece is not as detailed as this artists work i believe that mine follows the same sketchy like style as you can see on this piece the objects them self have very little detail but the artist makes up for this by the high quality style, i think that my piece shows exactly what i what the viewer to see which is a world seen through the eyes of someone in mental distress.

bad points:
this was my first time using photoshop to create a piece of concept art and because of this my shading isnt as accurate as i think it should be, to fix this i relied heavily on my sketch shading outlines to add the shading in photoshop.

improvements:
if i was to go back and redo or remaster this piece after using photoshop more i would add more lighting detail and make the light source (the fire) more realistically acting on the environment.