Agreed, I'm impressed with the artist's control over the details.



This is not just contrasting colors for it's own sake.



The character reads well against the background.



The contrasting colors of the background is darker than the subject.



The balance of dark and light colors makes the character pop.



There are a lot of neat subtleties like that to this painting.



It looks good for that very reason.



It has the same structure of a lot of very cool paintings.



I love the picture too.