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Its going to be hard to critique this piece... I absolutely love it! So I'm going to be super picky in order to find things. To start with the composition, it is very well done, there is a great balance with the positive and negative space. However your two centers of focus end up being the dragon on the left (obviously good) and the tree on the right. The tree parallels the figure given its position mirrors the object of focus on the opposing side. I would suggest moving the tree further to the right in order to allow the viewer a (more) clear direction toward the point of focus. Your lighting still does a very good job of guiding the viewer to the dragon, its just that doing this should help make it even more distinguished. When talking about your technique, its very hard for me to find things I do not adore. However I would recommend forming a sharper contrast in detail between your foreground and background. Perhaps detail the dragon and structure behind him more and leaving the background detail as it is (it looks perfect). I cannot really address the vision or originality of the piece as it is for a children's book, and not a reflection on your personal choices. I will say I like them a lot xD When addressing anything else the stairs leading up to the mouth of the "cave like structure" seem a little off. This is most noticeable at the bottom, whee it feels like there should be a less drastic angle, and it should be bigger. It seems to stay the same size from top to bottom, creating the illusion the whole staircase is extremely short (this may be your intent), but I would make the top smaller or the bottom larger in order to even it out anyway. These slight perspective issues again become prominent when scanning the back of the image. I feel this is the angle of the back structure in relation to its size going across... but I'm not sure what it is (I'm really sorry). Anyway besides that the colors seem great, I love your style of very diluted colors mixed with very vibrate ones to make the image pop, and your rendering style is very nice overall! Love this image, added it to my favorites. and please take all my critiques with a grain of salt e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title="(Smile)"/>