WIP // volcano (Patreon)

A while back I posted some different thumbnails for a painting with a vulcanic / sulfur rock theme! I got to working on the middle one and it’s a huge struggle because it’s so far outside of my comfort zone haha. I am usually someone who draws environments from studies and not from the imagination! Plus, creating compositions with a sense of space and detail distribution that fits a setting is something I still have a lot to learn about. 

I ended up shifting stuff around to try and get some more drama in the composition and now I have two versions: the left one which is more close-up, and the right one which is more zoomed out. What do you guys think? Which one has a more impactful compostion and is more worthwhile to finalize?