I really like the barrel and Fox (and I love the pun in the title lol), but I believe both elements work only separately and indendently. That feeling comes from how they follow different styles, specially in the shading/lighting and how the lightsources that don't match up. As an example, the barrel's light source is from the upper right, and Fox's is from the front slightly right. Another point is that the lack of shading on Fox's face, gives the piece an air that it is still unfinished. You have some other amazing pieces in your gallery and I know I am still inexperienced so please take my comments with a grain of salt ;)
Keep up the great work!
You absolutely right about light source issue.This piece was made for pixel dailies, and i try to limit my time to work on this to couple hours max, and this problem slipped unnoticed by me, so i'll try to keep better eye for this on next ones. Thank you for your feedback).