Comments please!

Trying new things.

Here is where it was yesterday evening (dragon close to be done).

A.

I kept having the same comment about the background. At least half of the time, people saw the bushes at the line of horizon like clouds, sky nearly touching the castle. 

So I gave it a try to change the time of day/night, to make it more obvious what's "sky" and what's "bushes and horizon line". Tried to improve the night atmospheric perspective at the same time (which is counter intuitive, cuz it's the opposite of day time).

B.

I was also told more than once that the distance between dragon (middle ground) and griffin (foreground) is really not obvious. Mostly because of the colors, so bright and sharp in the middle ground (as much, if not even more than foreground). There should be some sort of atmospheric perspective there too, but I'm not sure I to do this with this kind of scene. While talking with someone else, we thought I might blur the dragon a little (when it's going to be finished), to show it's further away... and maybe do the blur thick just a little more for the background bushes. I wanted to know what YOU think about whole of this :)

Thank you!
(I'll keep working on it, I style have to finish the king on the back! Half way done) ;)


EDIT (15h30) :
Approching a final, here's where I'm at now. Waiting for some approbations before I merge many layers (like the values of the main griffin we've talked about; after what, I'll be able to give the "right size" for the wing... or the dragon and sky, before I try to blur them...)

C.

Simplified version