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When I first saw this piece, I was like: "Wow! What the...? Is that water/tidal wave coming from behind the mountains there?"I must say that this piece is very intense to look at and I feel that this piece also has mild religious themes, or rather, was inspired from religion. As I looked at this, I felt that this showed the famous story of Noah and the flood. The boat there would be the ark, and that the flood is coming from behind the mountains.I am really assuming that is water. I say "assume" because even if full view, I can't really tell if that is actually water or something else because I don't feel like the children are afraid. Maybe they are though. Maybe the three children in the ship are calling for their friends to come to the ship. Or, it is possible that they are telling them to run, since the two running children are running away. That, however doesn't explain the third child on the ground who seems to be walking nonchalantly.Despite my confusion on whether that is water, or even a flood in the first place, my hunch on where this piece was inspired from is still there. I also base it on a previous drawing of yours that had religious themes. Though, I will acknowledge that this piece may not have such themes at all.I like the placing of the ship on the right as it gives this drawing a sort of lopsidedness to it, where there is more on one side then the other. I find this personally pleasing to the eye as it gives it more intensity and even more realness to it and the situation that it is depicting (for a reason I’m not really sure of, but that’s what I’m getting personally).Of course, that isn’t the only thing contributing to its realness. From the beautiful landscape to the old rusty-looking ship, all of it was depicted in a realistic way. Even we have a time of day for this as we know the sun is setting based on the lightsource, or the sunlight on the mountains. So there is a great amount of detail in this contributing to it’s realisticness.Then we had the silhouettes of the children. I must admit that I didn’t even see them until I took a look at the description which mentioned six children. Only after reading that that my mind somehow knew what to look for, and found five of the children. Two on the ship, waving, and three on the ground. It took me a while to realise that the sixth was also on the ship, making it three children on the ship and the other half on the ground.The fact that the children on the ship, despite the sunlight hitting them and despite the great detail put into the rest of the drawing, there is no detail in them other then their silhouettes. This leads me to believe that if the lightsource were to hit all the children, this fact would be the same; hence, further leading me to think that these aren’t mere silhouettes of children, but shadows of them. In other words, they don’t exist anymore in the events of what happens, or what is about to happen.Perhaps I am overthinking it, and my work on my own pieces are giving me a biased view on this (not that the possibility of my view of this whole drawing isn’t biased, even if I try my best to be objective).Going back to the beautiful, full-of-detail landscape. I do notice that you also set the weather of this drawing by indicating the mountains have snow on them (or at least I think it is snow). That, in my mind, would indicate that the weather is cold, and or the mountains are high enough for there be snow on them. That still would indicate the general weather since this would be almost a valley if I am not mistaken.Also on the mention of snow, that would lead me to another theory I had of the might-be-water, and that was it being an avalanche. If it was, though, it would be a pretty strange avalanche.Overall, now, I think is is among the best pieces I have seen on this site (and I have see many, but still, this being on the list counts, I hope). I understand that you are aiming towards professionalism, and I must say, this is a great stepping stone indeed!Your skill is very high, and this drawing is a great show of your current skill. I cannot see anything that I can suggest improving, and even if there was I would feel a very small hesitation in bringing it up, though, I personally would throw that hesitation away without a second thought afterwards as I personally try to be honest all the time, and it would do more harm then good in the long run if I hesitated.This piece is a true piece of art and is literally leaving me speechless the more I look at it. It’s a wonder I’ve been able to write so much on this up till now e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b… " width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="366" title="(Big Grin)"/>I find this piece to be a great drawing showing great originality and technique, and while the overall vision is not completely clear, we definitely get candy for the eyes and food for the though, for those who wish to chew on this drawing. One thing that I am certain is that this piece is not worth 500 DA points. It’s worth far more then that, but hey, it’s good price and I hope to take advantage of it before you rise it (if you plan on that at all) e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b… " width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="366" title="(Big Grin)"/>Keep up the great work, I hope to see more great works from you.