Movie Poster in Progress - Please Critique!

This is based on a story in my head for a while. Even though it's not a feature film or whatever, after drawing this I thought it could make a great personal project to make a fully colored movie poster. I'm thinking of making it digital by scanning and painting over in photoshop. By the way, I know there isn't much going on in the bottom left corner, the blackness of space fades down into an atmospheric scene looking across mountains.

Any thoughts on composition?

thanks in advance

smceccarelli

Hi Ben,
As thumbnails go, this looks really nice, though I am not totally sure what it represents. I can see it's some sort of space traveller and there are planets and spaceships, though I cannot make out all of the objects. One of the considerations I can suggest is about relative size of objects. Last week I stumbled across a designer's channel and there was a video on poster composition that mentioned this principle using yellow blobs - so I allowed myself to put yellow blobs on your poster sketch:

At this level of render everything appears to be about the same size, so there is no focus or "most important element" in the composition. I attach the example they gave in that video, which I captured as screenshot. Another great source that discusses this principle heavily (associated also with all the discussion about the relative size of movie stars on a movie poster) is the book "The Art of John Alvin" (a star movie poster designer who worked for Star Wars, etc...).

Thank you! @smceccarelli This helps a lot! I’ll be sure to check out John Alvin

MOO

@ben-migliore I am having a hard time telling what's what. Maybe a more clear contrast would help.

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen thanks for your feedback, I’ll keep that in mind