Colour and tone tests

After making a composition that I felt could work for the scene with the omnipotent the next step involved trying to create a suitable colour palette. This would give me a better idea of how this scene might work and also check how the tone works within the composition. I have made a rough version of the idea along with a black and white version both clear and blurred. I like to blur the image to lose any detail and the tones can be seen far easier. There are several areas which are already standing out as issues such as where the background mountains meet the ground, the ships are hidden by the foreground and the area in front of the chair seems rather dead. One other more important aspect has also came out of this exercise, what is the story in this image? I will perhaps introduce the lava pool that was in the initial composition so that some are being forced into the pit and other onto boats. This then makes the omnipotent decide fates as described in the text. The work done just now is satisfactory for this point in time, I will leave the image for a while and then come back to it with fresh eyes and draw out the final composition. I have an idea of combining a drawing (traditional) painting digitally and adding photos for texture to create the final images. These experiments will come later in the project, the images that were made are shown below.