Heyaaaa it's me again, haha!You are experimenting, so how could I not leave another constructive comment - critique feature on or not?I embrace the decision that you want to move away from the Sonic style a bit to try new stuff and find something that might turn into something one has never seen before!I still will continue to support your works, no matter how much I loved the way how you draw the Sonic styled characters (best example my commission <3)It is very important to trust your gut and move on to new things if you feel that his helps you to become a better artist <3 And I honestly believe that this style suits the characters! Keep up experimenting with it and having fun to reinvent your drawing style <3Now, what do I like about this picture? The main motif positioning is, yet again, very nicely done! I like how the two of them are in the centre of the picture and move towards each other from different directions. This already gives you a nice feeling that the two of them have got each other's back to support each other in combat. They seem to trust each other a lot and ready to face the challenge ahead. Implying that is tough to do, but you did a great job with it! By now, I do believe that character portrayal seems to be your biggest strength right now!Another thing that I like about this is how much detail went into the bg. You tried your best to make sure it looks like a calm and yet intimidating place. You can sense the cold in the fog and breath details and how the snow has every detail tightly in its grasp, apart from a few blades of grassNow for a few things, that I consider could still be ideas for further improvement <3What I appreciate about the way how you drew the two characters is that you wanted to use action and combat poses that are dynamicThe stance and flight idea are great already and you are improving with your movement lines a lot! However, there is something you could do to make them even more dynamic and lively, next time you try out something similar: Try to draw a line from one shoulder to the other and from the beginning and end of the hip on the same character. The more parallel to one another these lines are, the more wind they take out of the sails of a pose when it comes to dynamic movement >u< So for next time, you could tinker with that a bit to see how hips and shoulders could be positioned in different movement directions on this line, to make your poses even livelierI know that it is more difficult to imagine this by written word alone, so if you would ever want me to redline it in comparison for you with an alternative example, I would happily do that! However I will never do this without your permission, so if you would not want me to, I absolutely respect that <3As for improvement suggestions for the background, I believe that you could be even more daring to make full use of the environmental effects you are using <3 It would have been nice if some parts of the characters would have been more hidden by the fog, or if the leaves for the trees would have hid more of the upper part of the picture by being more structured like actual clusters of leaves, rather than the different, long brush strokesAnother great way how you can add more depth and wideness feeling to the layering of your bgs is by playing around with blurring and saturationthe further away something is, the smaller is the amount of detail and the lower the saturation is <3 That way you can add even more focus to what happens in the foregroundSpeaking of which, especially since this is an encounter picture, I think what also would have worked as a nice touch for this picture would have been to put the combat duo on the middle ground and to create a new foreground with the silhouette of an opponent or two in a darker grey, if not even black that would have been blurredThat would have added to the tension of the picture and show that they really have to get ready to fight x3As usual, all of these things are merely suggestions and I know that they take a lot of time and experimenting x3 It is up to you what you make of them, but since you continuously strive to improve, I am faithful that you will make massive jumps of improvement this year, Namrii! Keep trying what you think is fun, keep trying new things and all of what it entails will be worth it! I am looking forward to what you share in the near future