Background makes it look like there's a sand cave-in happening on him, dunno if it's intentional but a way that it could be avoided is to make some of the strokes go all the way down behind objects or him.

Thanks for the help, This was a piece made to 'wow' the audience with details to get lost in instead of being impressed of the general composition. I agree with you on most of the points you make (jagged angles/lines, excessive dither, new background needed/not dynamic) but I kind of like cramming in as much detail as possible into every surface. I kind of like making eyes lose track.

Funnily enough this was actually started before hotbot.

@metaru: I unfortunately did indeed do just that, the original design was a detailless three minute sketch that I did.

So yeah, lots of things to remove or change here.

I left those there to show how I used the colours (for another forum) but I guess there's no need for it here.

Removed.