The composition is very beautiful. I love how you chose an angle looking up to the sky.
You did a great job on the clouds as well. Lighting, feel, effects, everything . One thing I thought stood out a lot was the color of the clouds closer to the sun. As you mentioned in your comment, you wanted him to look young yet have "old" eyes. I think you captured that kind of feel in the clouds. The clouds on the top reminded me of memories and things that were left in the past. The clouds on the bottom conveyed the effect of the present time. There's also the random lightposts you added that contribute to the feel and balance of composition.

I also give you a lot of credit for attempting such a complicated and extremely difficult angle for the person. It isn't perfect but your attempt shows you are not afraid to try new things and that's good.
Some things to pay attention to in the future or fix in your picture: there's something weird about your sky. It looks like a sunrise but your sun is up there on the top. Also, your circle of clouds goes off towards the bottom. I see where you're trying to go with the clouds but the composition strength starts to disappear towards the bottom where the circle is really undefined. I think most of this is because of that ring of yellow light that throws the circle off.

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This is a nice job. I think the scenery and the feeling of the pic is well done.

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Nice. It's really risky attempting stuff like this, and I'd probably ditch it halfway through. Because I'm lazy -_-" Ender's Game is awesome, did you read Ender's Shadow?

One thing that bugs me is the neck, but considering that I have no clue how to draw them myself I probably shouldn't talk -_-" Also, in terms of the number of brush strokes visible in the shading and blending - less is more. It's more about putting a few of them in the right place rather than a lot of them. By the way, did you see the cloud tutorial made? I rely on them with my life. Hahah. But I really like your clouds and sun

Great job!

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very moving... nice sky.

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First of all, thanks for the critique. The circle of clouds is a lacking part in the composition, but then again, I didn't know what to do with it. The orange stuff in the sky is the pollution mixing with the planet's natural gases. In the book, the planet Trondhiem is described like that. But I'll make sure to pay more attention to those things in the future (I'm rather new with a tablet, so my drawings are still shaky).

Thanks. The scenery was what the whole thing was about, even though there seems to be less than I originally planned >>.

I actually only spent three days on this. Just sitting down and drawing really helps for me. And I'll totally in love with one of the artists here. It's almost like a crush. Online. His work really helped me get out of my shitty art movement.

Yeah - the blending on his skin really irks me too, but I'm still getting used to something as fucked-up as a tablet. Every stroke seems to spawn three more! So if you have any more tips, do tell.

His tutorial was the whole base of my clouds! I saw your last bg, and was all like: Crap, she's outstripping me! Go go go! Learn as fast as you can! Then I kinda adapted them for my own use.

Overall its a good composition, and I think overcrowding the scenery would make it too 'much'. The birds, clouds and sun are fine the way they are. (and the street lights)

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Wow. Well, like everyone else, the neck seems sort of...odd...to me. BUT zomg I can't believe you had the balls to do that. I sure as hell wouldn't've. And the perspective on those clouds...is SO nice.

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Thanks so much for your comment. I don't know what the hell to do with the neck...I think it's werid as well. If only I knew what to do with it. Prehaps I will learn one day. And as ~sophiac said below, :devAquasixo: has a really good cloud tutorial.

I've always wanted to make dynamic, interesting pictures. Hopefully this is the first step in the right direction.