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I'm just going to start out saying that this piece is overall pretty good! Above average when sized up to the rest of the content on this site for sure. Most of the anatomy is very solid, and the facial expressions are perhaps the best part of this piece. And the composition is overall, pretty decent.As for the downsides, there are two main problems that I can see with this piece. However, they're not all that glaring but if I'm seriously critiquing this I'm going to have to point it out. First is the proportions. Most of the heads on your characters are too large for their bodies. I'm aware that anime proportions have heads sized up, but this really breaks those boundaries. They're not absolutely huge, but they're large enough to where I can say that it's a definite problem. Eg, the heads on some characters are almost as wide as their shoulders. Here's a good rule of thumb: unless you're drawing a super deformed style, or drawing very young characters, your torsos (collar bone to pubic bone) should be at least two heads long so that the proportions feel right. (also one nitpick but Lexaus's head is way too big, even if he's a buff dude) Another problem with the anatomy is that the shoulders of your characters are noticeably wider than their hips. Unless you're drawing, say, a male with very broad shoulders and a well built chest, this shouldn't be happening. As a result, it looks like the top half of your bodies too big for the lower half. Asides from those two, everything else seems to look really good in the anatomy department, so good job!The second criticism is the composition of the piece. To be honest, the composition is actually the most striking thing of the piece-in a good way I mean. The placement of the characters and where they are in the piece is symbolic of the events of CoM and I appreciate that. In fact, I'd say that the composition is rather good even. The only problems (the last could be called a nitpick) are two things. First, it feels like the picture is being cut off. Part of Lexaeus's hair is cut off by the frame and its definitely closing in on Marluxia's. All it needs is a few dozen more pixels of height added to the top. But as it is now, the picture is too claustrophobicly short. Second, (the nitpick) The circles that show the character portraits (there's probably a term for it but I wasn't paying attention when I took graphic design) look a bit shoehorned in. They definitely have importance and add something necessary to the piece so I'm not saying take them out. However, they look really plain. They kind of clash with the elaborate composition of the rest of the piece. I would highly recommend adding a decorative frame around each portrait. Some purty pattern I guess. Also the coloring could use some more highlights on Sora, Riku, and Namine but whatever lolOverall very solid piece!