Afishionado wrote:

I'm impressed by your grit after the beating you took on that first 
image ;)

THis is getting interesting now.  The major change is that you are now 
committed to a naturalistic portrayal.  Before it was unclear where 
"stylization" ended and "alien" began.

I believe that the gently rolling desert surface actually creates the 
sense of vastness that you had noped for with the totally flat surface 
earlier.  It's change that never changes, a far more desolate concept to 
the mind.  Also, organizing the flying things into a flight stream is a 
huge improvement.  It also emphasizes the vastness, adds an orgaizing 
element, and makes the scene seem more natural and real.  It also 
subtlely exploits that old trick of scifi depiction which is to bring us 
into the alien world by suggesting to us something that is familiar.

Now that you have made the commitment to naturalism, that is what you 
need to continue to improve in order to improve the picture.  ie the 
drapes need to hang more naturally, the animal needs some sort of 
creasing in its flesh and so on.

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