Oh yeah, infinity+1, I remember. Hey hey.
Looks like a scan of a traditional ink shaded with watercolor, am I right? If not, the effort put into the illusion is successful.
I like this a lot. Love the attention to detail in the environment.
But yeah actually, things do look a bit flat due to the reckless use of shadow/highlight.
For example - the bottom-right foreground tree. Darken it. It draws the eye like everything else does. Inline with your comic shading style you're not using smooth gradation, but indication of a round form is still possible since you seem to be using about 6 main shades of grey.
I seriously missed that there's an earth gollum creature rising from the pond in second panel until I came back to looked at this a second time. Probably due to the very issue cited above. I started to notice the drippy shapes thinking what the heck is that, that's a pretty strange log/boulder, then finally noticed the face and other hand's fingers peeking out of from the surface.
Where is "TALISMAN" coming from? Did the standing figure shout it? Is it the comic's title?
No, this looks rather WIP, but with a little enhanced lighting and some splashes of color things could get really good, quickly.
*EDIT Here's a little ink-on-paper action of my own. A buddy's 9 year old daughter loves to color. I used our inside joke, the cheegah, a three-legged cheetah as the subject, to create some original drawings for her to color. 5 printer paper-sized pages, used sharpie with a fat nib to limit detail, otherwise I would've
really went overboard, knowing myself. No planning, no pencil sketching done before, just started casually drawing. Looks like a coloring book for crackheads.
