Problems

I think I may have messed up my project. Anyone who wants to weigh in please feel free.

For better or for worse I painted the main character first. He was one third up and slightly off center, so he has good positioning for a standard composition. It wouldn't have hurt if he was just a little more to the left of the painting.

Then I painted the building in the background. My reason was that I was going to have 4 main points of focus, the character, bottom left, the building top right, his crashed ship, top left and something undetermined bottom right; perhaps a crossroads.

I had always intended for there to be a fallen robot behind him, but I wanted him to be an afterthought, something defeated.

I gave very little thought to the terrain.

Well, there sits my dilemma. The robot is clearly too big and eye catching. I like how he turned out, but he completely throws off the balance of the picture. Further, when roughing out the terrain it has now become clear that the observatory in the background is way to close to the middle of the painting. If I paint the crash site symmetrically they will be to close (see below).

Sigh. I could put some kind of sign or object there next to the main character, but I doubt it will balance the robot. Further, the position of the robot has really upset the path that the character is walking on. It pretty much has to start off picture and continue off picture.

I'm afraid the only fix is to paint over the robot and maybe repaint him on the opposite side of the main character. Any thoughts?