Dexlicious (Dex and Delicious collaborate!)

[Chutzpar]

I'm thinking that you need to make the house in the background more of a focal point; it's very dark and the area around it is very dark, so the eye's never really drawn there. Ideally, you want the eye to be drawn to the kid in the foreground, and from there to the house -- otherwise it loses the narrative.

I'd suggest lightening up the winding path that goes to the house a bit, and maybe throwing some clouds or the moon or something light behind the house so that the eye's drawn towards it.

I'd also suggest knocking back the second layer of trees a bit - they look as well lit as the one in the foreground, which gives them equal importance and makes it seem a bit "noisy". You don't even have to do a whole lot - just use more of that middle brown colour on them rather than the greeny grey you're currently using to pick out details. You know how in old cartoons, usually when you saw a brick wall there'd only be little clusters of bricks drawn in, and the rest of the wall would maybe be a flat colour? That's to reduce noise. If you use detail selectively, then people will kinda "fill in" the parts where you haven't used as much detail; so you can simplify the second lot of trees and make them a bit darker, and it'll still read as being the same kind of tree in the foreground, without them seeming as much of a focal point. You already seem to have done this with the tree on the left, actually!