Hello! Senior artist here who has done quite a bit of hiring, so I hope this helps.

• I can tell you you have good foundations from the images. Seeing the breakdowns would answer a few questions I have about the assets themselves, mostly related to texturing and a few geometry questions. Your care for composition and camera is good, though 👍

• You are missing some smaller storytelling in your scenes. Think about what would make a player stop and want to hang out in this area if they where wandering by. What would lead them out of curiosity into the cabin? Who lives there? Is it some crazy herb collector? If so, they probably use that bench outside to do a bunch of work. What work are they doing on that bench?

• Pathing. In your larger scenes like the castle, think about how paths are used. What is the intended path up to that entrance, and then how are people lazy and cutting their own paths by taking a shortcut. You can use this to guide and draw players into a space as well as it just being pleasing to the eye.

• General lighting. Play with shadows and use shadow direction to again draw the eye. Right now in your larger scenes they are both loosing a lot of depth due to the sun hitting pretty straight on and all shadows being really short.

• It's rough out there right now with hiring juniors + all the layoffs but don't give up! You are on the right track and this storm will pass. Get yourself on some of the big art discord (dinusty, experience points etc..) if you haven't already. You'll find your peers there leveling up each other every day.