Tough choice on the crows! On the one hand, when I saw it I also thought: Turn the head down to lead back into the painting instead of aiming out of frame. But then the looking-up-crow strikes me as much more narratively interesting. I can already picture it caw-ing and losing the bit of cheese, whereas the down-turned head looks more contemplative and cautious, and doesn't strike me as arrogant. The fox's expression is also awesome great work, looking forward to seeing this develop.

this looks great so far, looking forward to seeing it progress! It's a great idea.

Really great work! I'll join everyone else here in having only nice things to say about that dashing portfolio. Welcome back!

I'd have another look at the sky maybe, it's very saturated and one block of colour, so it stands out to me quite a lot and draws away from the main subject matter a bit. I'm not sure it's even necessary to include, perhaps if the water reached the top, there'd be more space for the rubbish and turtle and for the bubbles to draw the eye up without being cut by the horizontal line of the sea. Hope that helps!

Ha, that makes me feel better then, anything we like goes I guess! I browsed Artstation for mine.
I also just noticed just how formulaic a lot of the images I picked out appear, in terms of placing a vertical object on the line to the right third, against a bright background, framed by a dark foreground. It applies to all of them, apart from the first, which is just the same formula flipped! I feel like @Heather-Boyd 's second set of choices also have a lot of similarities, with bright midgrounds being framed by quite dark foregrounds on both sides, like a cave.

I like 8, I think two fonts really work better than using the same one twice. Maybe in 8, the title could come down a little bit still.

I like the compositions of 2 and 4 a lot and think they're worth pursuing, but in terms of story I love the idea of number 5! That could end up being really cute. I think all of them are a good start so I reckon whatever you go with is gonna end up being a nice picture.

@burvantill it's a lovely copy, you did a great job with the many different textures on the clothes.

This is such a cool thing to do! I want to do the same, it's probably difficult to see the differences, but facing your style wishes and current realities must be real good step in the right direction, so I reckon you're on the right path!
Also joining the others, some higher darkness and contrast will do a lot, and maybe working in photoshop, texturing could be a lot easier so you could push those a bit too. Looking forward to the rest of your master studies, and I might join you in opening a thread like this when I am mentally prepared!

@Heather-Boyd @Erin-Cortese @Braden-Hallett thank you guyys, I swear I spent four times as long trying to find images to copy than I did copying them. How was your process for that, and where did you lot look for masters to study? I just sort of went with 'stuff I like ' but I'm not sure if there's a better educated way of determining what is worth studying