Art contest help

[ember spear]

Hi im looking for any kind of outside opinion on this, I’m submitting it soon for a school contest thing and so far no one else as seen it but me so idk! also the anatomy looks hella off 😭😭

[lime shale]

hi,

let's, first off, start with the positives. i love the usage of color here. I am a big sucker of purple and orange. in terms of value, you can either make the background darker or the subject daker so it can really pop. 1/?