Well, can't fix it in time for the contest, but chances are I'll fix it up later.

 nice

Ambitious piece and great job, but I agree bg is far too busy.

Copy-pasting the sleepers and rocks would be ok but you flipped the rocks at one point so their shading is inconsistent. Also the sleepers need some depth (show sides), and the rails should cast some shadows on rocks.

The guy is noisy in places too. Probably too big eyes; the mouth looks weird, as if the teeth were above the lip (I know it's not what you drew, but that's what it looks like).

It's not obvious how the ropes attach to the tracks, actually he just looks like he could walk away!

The bg suffers from a terrible lack of depth imo, and looks quite confused because of all the (great) details you drew on it. The character face definitly needs some refinements, and the ropes don't look like they are tightly coiled around his body (if you have a better turn of a phrase for this, please tell me ), there are too straight and flat.

Otherwise this is pretty cool, i like the colors.

I agree somewhat with Jeremy, the ground and wood colors are very similar, I think that it would look better if the ground was less noisy and the wood was more imphasized.

Very cool peice though.

Palette and sig taken off thanks alot guys I worked really hard on this.

Get rid of the palette and sig and you'll have a fine piece.

 pretty nice but I agree, get rid of the palette

Pretty well done. I think that the ground and wood colours are a little similar, and there's no need to include the palette ;)