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First and foremost...wow. The detailing in this is utterly insane...in the good way. Especially in the upper arm of the jacket, the trousers and shoes in general, it all looks incredibly realistic...for what seems to be an alien guy reading a book in front of an impressionist's night sky.
That being said, the connection between the jacket and the trousers is a little off-kelter, though I can't quite put my finger on why. They just feel a little unrelated from one another somehow. That asides though, the art on both parts is fantastic.
The background is really nicely done; it's interesting, but in no way overpowers the character in the foreground. The background does feel very impressionistic, with the mixes of the more natural blues with the more interesting creams and semi-yellow colours that makes it pretty artistic in itself.
I think my major problem with this would probably be the head of the 'lobbyist' itself. It's very stark and captures the attention of the viewer straight away, but it seems a little too bright and a little too sharp for its surroundings, which are a little more toned-down and melancholy. And for that, it's a little distracting. I think it's not even the head itself, but perhaps the outline of it, especially the brightness of the top of the head and the eyes. The bottom half is nicely shaded, and the tentacles fit pretty perfectly (Though I'm not sure whether they're solidly in that smooth curve or whether they're meant to be draping onto the collar like the leftmost one).
As Fro touched on, there's a seemingly random white bit to the hand just as it comes out of the cuff, and the hand's grip of the book in general seems a little forced. The detailing of the book though, is pretty stunning.
Holistically, this is a fantastic piece of art. There's a few things that don't hold their correlation to everything else so well, but the detailings more than make up for that.
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