This is one of the few art entries this round that focuses more on the background and the environment than on the characters -- and it looks really good!

It goes well with the story, too; in there, the feeling of isolation and slowly drifting away and going mad is the main focus of the story (at least conceptually; tonally it's more about a snarky narrator) so focusing harder on everything but the characters makes sense in that regard.

Cool water, by the way! It looks super good, extremely pretty -- I like the waves and the highlights on the right. The way all these tones mix together is particularly eye-candy-ish. Funnily enough, the sky is not as detailed as the sea, but I like the color palette. I keep thinking some pink or orange might go well in there? Though it would look kind of more dusk-ish that way.

The characters look okay, though the one on the right has a bit of a weird-looking hair. Still, definitely, the highlight of this picture is the water, and it looks extremely good. That alone gets my thumbs up, man. Nice one.

Thanks for the classic rock reference in the caption. This is quite well executed and is going in my top tier.

Haha! A drawing I actually finished!
>>Aragon
Yeah, I liked that feeling of being isolate, apart from the rest of the world save for those within the confines of the raft that I got from the story, and wanted to make that feeling come through.
Funnily, the very first draft of this was actually an underwater view of the raft with sunlight coming down did not look good. This made me skeptic about being able to pull off a convincing water look (I still think I could've done better highlights), but I'm glad to know it still looked good.
I also liked shading the raft. I think I was able to make it look not lika a log, as it was originally. And yeah, there's something funny going on with the guys on the raft. I was trying a few new brushes to see how they worked.
>>GroaningGreyAgony
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it so much.