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:star::star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star: Impact

Requesting a critique, huh? Hmmm, why not:

Everything about this piece (details, colors, balance, emotion, etc.) is excellent. In fact, I've picked it as a painting to share in an article on my website because I like it so much.

But if you're desperate for advice... the white/less detailed building and the gray/shadow building are at the center/focal point of the picture. However, the people at the bottom and the colored buildings on the outside edges are more interesting and make the focus of this painting almost like a U-shape. This is nothing to be corrected per say, but just something peculiar I noticed. Sometimes artists get caught up in the details after staring at a piece for so long and working so hard at it, so I thought it'd be good to share with you a fresh, broad perspective on what I first noticed.

Many untrained art lovers will "glance" at a piece for aesthetic value, and I think the first things that catch their eye are contrasting lights/darks, bright colors, and either familiar shapes or bizarre shapes... and in my opinion (to address my earlier critique) in this order:

1. The entire picture from afar
2. Whatever is bright, flashy, prominent
3. The center
4. Just outside the center edges, usually starting with left and right before the bottom and top.

Only then will they decide to look deeper into the details/vision. I think you've done a good job here at all of those things and I'm really being a perfectionist here and trying digging for "corrections" to your work. Even as I decided to look deeper into the details I wasn't let down. So thank you for that.