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Here's the second version. Please read my other comments first 
Here I've made the foreground even darker to give it an even greater sense of depth.
One thing I forgot to mention in my first comment: Not only does the value contrast decrease as the objects recead into space, but also the saturation. So colors are not nearly as bright or rich or bols as they are in the forground. Instead they become more gray. Also, in atmospheric perspective, things tend to get a little bluer as they get farther back.
I hope this was helpful
Here I've made the foreground even darker to give it an even greater sense of depth.
One thing I forgot to mention in my first comment: Not only does the value contrast decrease as the objects recead into space, but also the saturation. So colors are not nearly as bright or rich or bols as they are in the forground. Instead they become more gray. Also, in atmospheric perspective, things tend to get a little bluer as they get farther back.
I hope this was helpful
Comment ID 47819
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Thanks for that. I know you talked to me about the contrast levels before, but I wasn't thinking about that while painting. :/
You can't tell it now, but the picture is gonna be taking place at dawn when I do it in the real colors. I haven't seen many mountains at dawn, but I wanna make the light extreme, so wouldn't I keep the really dark values on the closest side of the mountain, and just lighten the regions on the edge of the mountain and add more rim lighting? I understand what you're saying about the contrast, but the visual critique looks more like a midday picture that dawn or sunset.
You can't tell it now, but the picture is gonna be taking place at dawn when I do it in the real colors. I haven't seen many mountains at dawn, but I wanna make the light extreme, so wouldn't I keep the really dark values on the closest side of the mountain, and just lighten the regions on the edge of the mountain and add more rim lighting? I understand what you're saying about the contrast, but the visual critique looks more like a midday picture that dawn or sunset.
Yes but the darkest darks of the mountain need to be lighter than the darkest darks in the foreground because that mountain is still far away and there's atmosphere in between the picture plane and the mountain. Plus at dawn there is a lot more haze/fog/mist hanging around than usual.
I see what your saying that the changes I made makes it look more like mid day. What you could do is keep the sky as dark as you have it but lighten it more where you have the sun. And make the rim lighting more extreme too.