TLDR: Who cares.
Not going to lie, its been a bit of a struggle to get this finished truth.
I think i made a couple cardinal sins when drawing this sort of drawing.
The thing that stands out is the Focal point isn't great so its not particulary punchy and its a bit confusing. is the Focal Point the knight in gold or the man with the axe on front?. when drawing these scenes i think the foreground should be filled and dead/empty space should be kept to a minimum. As you can see, a large (third?) of it is empty. Hindsight i should have used golden ratio and zig zags. Sure, the image follows rules of third and the golden spiral (sort of), but i think it was the wrong measurements. Aspect ratio is probably not the best either.
Secondly, i think the colors aren't quite right (if i have time i'll attach the color studies and experiements). The idea was that the mason order were moving/fighting/defending a burning forest. it was suppose to have a sort of apocalyptic scene yet at the same time a sense of defiance kinda reminds me of the phrase by sun tzu: "An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes".
Its a nice idea, my only problem was all the photos i foundat this point was all pictures of forest fires were just bright orange and when your color palette is red and black i was going to struggle. Its not to say its impossible, i managed to reference and observe colors from some Age of Sigma artwork and how warriors of khorne were illistrated around inferno like environments. More worryingly i started the figures without a proper palette and for metal work and didn't really get it until 2/3s of the way of the image.
its also a bit on the dark side, with most of the image sort of bluring together tbh.
Thirdly, i think its kinda boring. i had hoped to add some opposition to spice things up but alas, in early thumbnail attempts i couldn't get it working. I was too torn between getting scale and an awesome background and the idea, yet at the same time i just couldn't conceptualize the opposition and what they would be doing. The ideas i did play on was that the knights were advancing forwards over some emplacements/grounds with the dead scattered around the area. The other idea was perhaps the knighrs holding to prepare an ememy surging forwards and just seconds before they clashed.
i had to make a pretty significant sacrifice ditching the forest idea as it just made it too dark and claustaphobic for my tastes. There were points that i wanted to give up and had the sky not kept me inspired i would have crumbled much sooner.