06-21-2013, 11:02 PM
@par gin: Thank you very much for your critique! You´re absolutely right, especially with the image being static. I reworked some bits of it and also got rid of the vine background as it was boring. I decided to add some small "story element" instead. I could have positioned the latern a bit higher to the face, but I decided to let it be half way between face and original position as I would have had to redraw most of the lighting.
Here is the updated version:
Here is the updated version: