Digital Paintover Shenanigans

For our ART 401 class, we were assigned to locate an untextured render of a place or general location, and paint over it to what we would like to see as the 'finished' version of the untextured work in progress. I came across a few candidates for some interesting scenes, but I settled on this one:

This was created by a chap that goes by the name of Ryu-Gi on Deviant Art, a student in California, if you're interested. I decided to take this untextured and interesting city and... spruce it up a bit:

I am not really an environment designer, and would much much much rather be animating characters than creating environmental pieces like this. I don't think our ART 401 teacher is quite in step with the rest of the faculty with their agenda, but it's hard to say no to the guy who designed Master Chief for Halo 2 and 3...