I always appreciate your thoughts and Im glad you like it!

As for the color choices I was going through a lot of original Pokemon red and blue environment art, and trying to get a similar feel. The main town I was reference had an all blue palette, but for some reason it looked more purple to me, so I emphasized that more, only to see that the original palette didn't have any purple at all!

hey I know you posted that critique a while back, but I just wanted to say thanks for pointing out the AA on the roof contours not working, I don't think its something I would have caught myself, and since being aware of that, I've been able to get some very smooth curves on roofs with AA! That comment helped me out a lot! 

As for the perspective, its a little wonky since for reference I just photobashed a bunch of different photos of the city I took, so they don't quite line up, but I think it works well enough for the sake of a little piece like this

yeah my rational was a few things, on a base level, its an overcast day where the sky is a light grey, but even on overcast days the skies are still pretty bright. But I also overexposed the sky for a stronger value structure, I really wanted a strong contrast and silhouette between the sky and the darker land below. In some other versions of the piece I also snuck in a very subtle gradient darkening the sky but that I couldn't use here. Finally my last thought too, was I wanted a lot of open space in the sky, so it would feel like the big oppresive thing looming over the town. Its up to you of how successful I was with that, but that was my thought process behind it all!

thank you! I appreciate that!