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The background elements feel like they belong in a separate reality, generated by other means than drawing them as the figure was, and then filtered in Photoshop for effect. You can do this to good effect, particularly if you are working in a pop-art mindset, but as it is here, I'm not sure that was the intended effect and thus not certain it works well here.
On the use of light/dark and atmospherics, the sword in the front appears to be almost illuminating, but it casts no apparent light and shadow on the figure itself. It's also the brightest element in the piece, which kind of makes it the focus of the piece, but the way the piece is cropped kind of suggests the figure is the focus, and the two thoughts are competing with one another rather than supporting each other, as if my eye wants to struggle between going back and forth between them.
Like I said, anatomically, the figure is mostly solid, with a couple of caveats. The first being that his head feels much too big, and the second is that the right shoulder feels disconnected from the figure, pushed too far forward to be possible given that it's forward-ness doesn't seem to be affecting the movement of the rotation of the chest to match it.
Lastly, and this isn't so much a critique as an observation; the second sword seems to be a suggestive indication that he's had his viagra today
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