I agree. I'm not sure why (size maybe?) but he feels a little pasted in. Also, for me anyway, I think he lacks contrast from the rest of the piece and gets kind of lost against the tree and road.
Otherwise this is great work. Love the colors and sweeping landscape!
I don't see how, but I'd like to know why. Please explain.
@scwol: I really like the colors in this piece.
I feel like the character detracts more than adds to the picture. He feels very out of place and weirds up the perspective.
Great details and composition. The sky, the river, and the various lighting makes me think that a storm just passed through. Cool stuff.
The character is too large relative to the house which is very close to the foreground, and he's standing on a tangent line with the bottom of the picture which creates a boxed-in look to the painting. Also, he's got the same contrast-saturation color priority as the tree behind him, which damages the depth of the painting.
Like, if you JUST look at the preview picture, the road vanishes into the horizon line so quickly that by comparison the cossack looks like he's as tall as a streetlamp. So either the cossack needs to be smaller or the road needs to not taper off so quickly or something else; regardless, the perspective errors are definitely there.