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Thanks ska! Excellent advice, great stuff there, I hadn't yet seen it.
Now, that mountain again, dunno... 
Yep, new mountain looks much better. Still looks abrupt, but kind of organically abrupt...Even if the part below the cliff wasn't visible from your position, I think you could've bent the truth a little bit - something like this. Just so it doesn't look as though you've taken a break, returned and then forgotten to finish the top left part of the image.
I think the AA can still be improved a bit more, keep working on it. Also, have a look at some Panda pieces.
The piece itself is nice, great atmosphere :D
Yeah, haha, I noticed it was the shoreline just after posting ("what's that guy doing in a boat?! ohhh..."). Still, the fact that I had it so wrong is telling. If anything it seems more like an ocean beach than a river shore. But that doesn't make sense because then the boat would be in REALLY shallow water. Maybe you could give the shoreline more rocky, cliff-like elements. Don't know is that's what the actual location looks like though.
New update looks a lot better; mountain feels much more organic and less geometric. It'd still seem way too abrupt to me if I hadn't seen the ref though. Ah well.
Thanks Hatch! You're right here, I'll have to redo that (these are the river banks, not shadows!).
You guys have me wondering a lot about that mountain shape... On the one hand, you seem pretty unanimous, I can't ignore that. On the other, this ominous cliff is what made me stop and sketch from that point of view, I think... I'll have to try it to decide!
Done: I think you were right... 
Fixed shoreline AA, made a few changes in the city skyline (looks even less like Valence now!). I'll change the main image later, when I'm sure to be finished. Done
Fixed a major perspective issue Hatch's comment made me realize: that boat and faraway people on the right were far too big. It's a small fishing boat, and the canal is shallow there.
You know, I don't think your AA is working as hard as it could. Quick edit:
(just did most of the shadows from the trees) On those long gentle curves, you have to use more than just a few dots of AA color. Remember that you're trying to approximate a long gentle slope. When you just use those few dots, you're approximating a rather abrupt and sharp "stair step", if that makes sense. It's only slightly better than having no AA at all.
I think in this case it would be beneficial to the picture to give it even the slightest slant, as the abrupt line is pretty distracting. Even in the reference though the mountain has quite a slant on it.
Thanks guys!
Reason is, that mountain just looks like that! (almost); I'm so familiar with it it doesn't seem strange to me anymore... I hadn't inserted a link yet because I didn't find one with a similar angle. This one gives the idea though.
Not sure why the furthest back silhouette cuts off so abruptly? Nice atmosphere though; I'm digging it.
Amazing colours!