So this is my first study of Agle's work. Tonight I plan on recreating the entire image now that the skeleton guy is mostly out of the way. (I am betting he is the hardest part by a long shot [not really that hard...just obnoxious with the little details and the sometimes random nature of the pen tool]) The image is drawn in illustrator using the pen tool except for the space inbetween the boat and the buildings. That is a scan of a wood plank with a gradient map applied overtop of it.
The wood plank scan was found at textureking.com, an amazing resource for textures.
Looks like it is working really well. In some areas you oversimplify and losing some subtle qualities. The vertebrae are probably not as perfectly rectangular as you have them. The eyes should not be perfect circles. These may seem like small details but it is what saves it from being a totally synthetic computer-made looking thing. Make sure that your vectors are humanized. Even if you start with a circle tool make sure that you pull a few points out of place.
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