Bjulvar's Sketchbook

[Samszym]

Yoooo, thanks for the comment! Nice studies and hussle, on the right track for sure! Nice to see some dore studies, I definitely a treasure trove of information in that dude's work.

godfather of death illustration is on its way to being nice and creepy, few ideas I suggest trying int he image to help with the composition:

Editing the values of the middle ground and foreground so they're very distinct and you get a clear overlap

Shrinking the guy, enlarging the skeleton to make it seem more powerful

Overlapping one of the guy's feet with the foreground and to add some more overlap and depth

make the forest in the back darker and let the skeleton's silhouette fade into it, losing his definite shape will make the viewer not be able to tell how big he is, more mystery is scarier!

Moving the skeleton so his top isn't so precariously close to the top edge of the canvas, that almost-tangent is creating a lot of tension.

good luck :D