So this one's a rather literal representation of the story, which is nice! The masks are clearly well-drawn, and they have a lot of character. This is a very fanart-ish pic, in that it's simply illustrating something that happens in the story, rather than trying to abstractly represent the story itself, like some other pictures this round.

That said, while the artistry in here is pretty good -- as in, the drawing is nice, and the artist knows how to draw faces and the masks are all cool (the one on the left is my favorite) -- I think the way the picture is composed is kind of simple?

The weird colorblob space above and below the picture makes me think that the artist just drew the masks and then did the background to sorta fill the pic with something, but there's a clear disconnect between both elements, faces and background, and it all looks a bit half-done. The way the heads are arranged is also weird; they're just side to side with no real sense to their order or the way they're placed.

I think this story would benefit a lot from a little more thought put into how it all looks as a whole, rather than focusing solely on the individual masks. Having the heads in V formation or playing with perspective, for example. The bigger picture, pun intended, of it all, kinda. As it is, this is just five illustrations of 'I think this is how X mask looks' put together.

So, very well-drawn if we go bit by bit, but I do think as a whole this didn't have a lot of thought put into it. Mind you, I like how everything is drawn, it's just that -- yeh, I think pictures like Blood on a Snowy Field, which have less polish in every little detail, but more attention to the big picture, are overall more effective than illustrations like this one.

Really cool-looking masks, though, so that's that. Real cool job in there, author; I just think a bit more perspective on how to tackle the picture from the start would have benefitted it massively.

This does have an unfinished feel to it, Artist, despite the effort you took in drawing so many faces and varied masks. Part of it is composition; they don’t really stand out from each other, and they all seem to have much the same expression. Arranging them differently, as Aragon suggested, might help. This will go to the mid tier of my slate.

I just mentioned how I couldn't finish "Best Laid Plans" because my thesis got in the way. Yeah, that's not the only one of my entries which suffered. I'd argue this was even worse, because this is half of what my original plan was, and it's not even the cool half.
What I wanted to do was draw a glass mask, as the main one described in the story, and have all these be reflections on the glass, while the mask itself floated on the dark void.
However, I never got around finishing the glass mask, and since I'd already drawn all the other masked people, I figured submitting what I had was better than scrapping it.
>>Aragon
>>GroaningGreyAgony
I hope this explains why this feels unfinished. That's because it is. But hey, tied for fourth place is not that bad, if I say so myself.
Thanks for the critiques, I'll be sure to keep them in mind.