Anyway, I've rambled on enough. You've surpassed yourself here, and with all the trouble you went through while making it... I thank you three times over for soldiering on and finishing this! I love it. I hope Sketchy will like it too.

Above and beyond what even I was expecting, maker, and that's no small compliment, seeing as I was expecting a lot to begin with. The very high quality of colouring and shading is all there, but it's even better now; you've managed to improve the perspective, the painterly style of the outlines and the magical-like effects of the Octavia image are smooth and sharp, more so than anything you've made before. And the picture of the city in the back is essentially a second picture in and of itself, which is remarkably impressive. Lovely detail on that mandolin and his face in particular; you've made his mane and tail very nicely indeed. My favourites still have to be the lighting and the shading all over. And well... I really got little but praise here. The only thing that could be improved is the somewhat changeable areas of focus and blur, most evident at the top of the picture between the apparent keyboard and the cardboard boxes above, but this is really just a question of how much detail is put in these things, and the backgrounds don't need too much detail anyway (after all, the picture is still focused on the character, not the landscape/interior).