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Mitt lille Land

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"My Little land"

I haven't drawn anything involving Europe in a long time, and I sort of miss those days where I would draw nothing but Medieval art. 

So I figure i'd draw something Related to Norway...sort of ^^;

I got the idea after listening to a cover of this song www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWtCFO… I love it so much that I wanted to make this.

btw, for now, let's just call th blonde knight here Oslo....yes...fuck off @.@

update 2/28/17: I need better trees so all the initial flora will go for now
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Hello there, I figured I'd drop you a quick critique since you posted this to a critique group. Now I'm no professional, so my word is hardly law. Just consider my suggestions and then follow or ignore them as you see fit.
Let's begin with the composition. You character's position to the center left is neither terrible not optimal ( at least in my opinion, and comp is all about opinion), whats happening is that everything of interest happens in the left side of the picture, as such the right half is largely irrelevant. You can probably cut off everything to the right of the sword and not change the picture overmuch. (Mountains don't count as interesting because they're just background and there's nothing really important about them. The house on the other hand, is somewhere between the middle and background and thus still apart of the character immediate world. There's the chance that he might interact with it so it because interesting and relevant. Next ( still working on composition) we have your landscape, once again its not terrible just a little boring. This isn't a big problem nor even a middling one, its just something to be aware of. As for the reason why it's boring, the land just repeats itself all the way to those mountains in the distance. A quick band-aid is to stagger the white hills a little. A slightly more complicated  fix is to odd the occasional tree or rock outcropping. Now if you wanted to go all out, consider adding a deserted ice castle in the distance. (This solves the problem of the mountains being irrelevant and the landscape just repeating itself.
Alright, now let's deal with the figure. Your pose is everything that the mountains and landscape are not, its incredibly interesting and the fact that you're not afraid to use foreshortening is impressive (Foreshortening is something I still struggle with). All that said, there are one or two discrepancies. We'll deal with the one that's easiest to fix first. His ear placement is a little off. A quick rule of thumb is that the top of the ear alines with the brows and the bottom of the ear alines with the bottom of the nose. Quick fix right? Yeah right. Okay so this next one is the only major problem you have. His pose get's a little but muddled from the waist down, a lot of your former clarity vanishes and I've only a vague idea of what's going on. No advice I can give you here, you'll have to muddle through on your own. Continuing with the legs, I feel that he's seated wrong. Our adventurer up there seems to be gripping his mount with his forelegs. Usually ( at least with horses) riders grip their mounts with their thighs, so you'll need to angle the legs substantially further.
 I think that's everything. I hope this helps and if not, that's because I've gotten high off cotton candy and don't know what I'm writing.
May fair winds guide your steps down the correct paths.
P.S. I really enjoyed that snowman wizard you've got on the left.