"Practise" by Amy Rebecca Letts

COOL I can't beleive that i'm the first person to comment
the sword is full of detail the clothes are fantastic and even the background is tremendous keep it up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amy Rebecca Letts replies: "Wow. All those exclaimation marks! Thanks."

This is a lovely picture, despite the details you mention not showing up. I can see the dot on the hill though. You might be able to get the clouds to show up if you play around with the curves tool in an image editing program though. The sword doesn't look quite right, I don't think - the angle of it doesn't match the angle his hand is at. I also think it could benefit from some perspective, especially with the sense of perspective so evident in the background - it would be nice if the point of the sword looked closer to the veiwer.

The thing I love about this picture though, is the movement in it, and the atmosphere created by that movement. I get a real sense of the wind in his hair and in the grass in the foreground (even though they look like they're blowing different ways - it still works somehow ).

Grass is leaning in the opposite direction of the wind...