Ah'kalam The Wanderer - Coloured

Looks like you've done a nice job here, I'm just going to suggest a few things that I think might help you improve your talent.

You seem to have a decent grasp of using texture to define different items and surfaces in an image, but I still think this element needs a little work. The only thing I can really suggest here is to take strongly from the things you see around you - take a study photographs, use google images, internet databases of reference images. Each item in this image has a distinctly different texture, and reacts very different to light.

For example: (I hope the links come through)
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Notice how the feathers have a smooth, almost oily surface, and how neatly aligned they are. When drawing wings it is important to understand the functions of the feathers - that certain feather, like flight-feathers, have a distinctly different shape to the rounder, fluff feathers on a birds chest. Noticing things like this and being able to apply them to art will make your drawings and paintings more convincing.

I see you've got a phrase of what seems to be an original language there too? I'm impressed by that - personally I love conlanging and I admire it wherever I see it. My point about noticing small things about the world stands here too. If you're using an original race or language in a fantasy world, it can be genuinely helpful to simply know all sorts of strange little facts about how the real world works.
It's like when people complain about not being able to draw trees, when if they looked closer they'd see that when branches split off trees they tend to do so at an exact angle which is repeated throughout the entire tree. Knowing that about a tree can make it infinitely easier to draw!

Your landscape is also nicely done - in terms of proportioning the features of the land compared to one another. But don't be afraid to use quite dramatic changes in color and tone to bring out the depth of the landscape. The sun is looking nice, but like before I recommend studying photographs of clouds and mountain ranges to get a more convincing feel to them.

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this mountain range is a good example of just how much color can be packed into a landscape. (If the link doesn't work then just search 'southern alps new zealand'). Despite the fact that most of New Zealand is green, grey and brown, essentially, the land in this photo is showing underlying traces of purples, pinks, blues etc. Knowing where to hint at these colors can make a landscape painting very real.

So that's all I can really suggest, just to keep studying and learning from real life and applying the knowledge to your art. You've done a nice job here, and I hope my suggestions are helpful in some way <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Big Grin)"/>