It's certainly not my best, in fact I reallly don't like it but it was for a friend and he liked it so it's all good in the hood.

Comments and criticism's?

First of all, is that Indalecio art from Star Ocean: The Second Story? It is the only Indalecio I know, plus the looks match as well.

Anyway, I think the background looks pretty good, in comparison to the text, that matches aswell, especially with a difficult font like that.
I am not sure about the stock though, it looks a bit out of place, or not blended in. Can't place my finger on it =S.
Overall, I think it has a nice look =).

pretty much the same thoughts as pes

The font was just a lazy half-a**ed job XD Grunge/abstract is definitely not something I'm familiar with, and for me personally it's especially hard to blend stock with that type of backround, so I just blurred it a few times and lowered the opacity etc etc. Tried not to make it look like it had just been pasted there Thanks for the comments

EDIT: Honestly I don't know who that is...I THINK it may be from S.O I just got given the paintbrush and was ordered to paint

Personally I like the background, but the image doesn’t really seem to blend in well...The background has more of this rough/abstract artsy feel to it, whereas the stock is more or less...I dunno. It’s a completely different style...

Other than that, I do like it. The blending for the stock--->background kind of detracts, but it’s certainly not bad. Nice work KC =).

Oho believe me, the choice of background would have different to the stock or vice-versa if I had no restrictions, but alas! I'm crap at sig requests XD Thanks for the comments =)

its good it has a good flow to is and its easy on the eyes i give it a 8

A good piece. Colors flow evenly. Nice background as well, just needs a few touch-ups around the stock, like Dragon said. Some blending would be the best bet, that is if your not done with it completely.

The problem with the stock is that it's squashed. Not only that but the way you blended it in where you only used "lower opacity" (visibility) is hardly the best way to approach stock blending.

A good interactive way to blend in a stock is to use masking layers so that, instead of just fading into the background, you have the background "interact" with the stock. (Or you could go the easy-man way out and just use a blending feature like Soft Light or Hard Light. :\ )

The text isn't bad. It's simple, and straight to the point. The background is fine too, so the only issue is the stock. If you want to challenge yourself, see how you can design text into your work without the conventional use of just slapping it onto the canvas.

Thanks for the great advice...and you're so right about the stock being squished. Friggin heck I ALWAYS seem to squash the damn stock >_< I promise you though my blending $ki||z0rz aren't always an epic fail. As I've said though, grunge/abstract just doesn't work for me haha I find it extremely frustrating so I'll stick to what I'm good at lmao. But I will take on board everything you guys have suggested for the off occasions that I do attempt this style again ^__^

Muchly appreciated!