The Judgement updated cover

In my progress tutorial, it was noted that the cover I had designed for "The Judgement", featuring the letter was the weakest. I had thought the same but couldn't quite figure out why, but Fred suggested that it had too much information and not enough focus on the letter. The fact that it was also a vignette exacerbated this, so I've decided to re-design it:

I tried to simply crop what I had already, but felt that it didn't work. So I re-drew the hand, played around with its positioning and finally came to a new conclusion:

Although there's something wrong with the letter that I can't quite put my finger on, I feel that this is a much stronger idea and composition. The letter is done with the scratchy shading that has been in the most recent covers I've done, making it feel a lot more suited to being part of the set as well.