Quality always speaks for itself, this is no exception. I'm surprised you feel you wanted critique on this but I'll do my usual.



I love the texture used on the whale, it's professional looking, it's consistent, and most of all it's appropriate. This wouldn't fall too short of a creature design from a computer game like Final Fantasy I think.



Unfortunately the only negative thing I can see about the whale is something obviously rather subjective. The toning of the whale. I can understand the reason it's very light in general, though the shadows and the highlights are still very strong in respect to the overall tone. I couldn't help but say I would like to see the tones being pushed a little further than they are just for the sake of effects, although I can see the possibility of distortions to the what is already perfect texture. The orange shading on the belly is a perfect example of good experience in colours, it's adds even more depth to what already's a very beautiful sculpture.



Clouds. The clouds are just props, fair enough, but I can't help but get the impression they were done rarely hastly. The lower half of the picture shows different used of brush strokes than the top half, top half looking more rushed. Yet the upper clouds shoulded a lot more energy and confidence, despite looking more rushed of the two styles, I prefer them overall.



Given all the praise, I have to however make a prediction that this piece will fall short of long term appreciation. While greatly executed, the drawing perhaps looked overly professional, lacking the unique style to stop it from falling into the "quick appreciation and admiration but quickly forgotten" pit. The creature design didn't have the striking characteristics and details to really jump out from the crowd immediately, forcing the audience to remember it once in a while, easily becoming something they get used to seeing. That's the way I've observed society works unfortunately, while you may disagree, given further exposure I don't believe the picture will hit the top spots.



So overall, great digitial painting, very little to complain about, shame it lacks the needed touch to dig deep into memory : 9/10