Work on lighting, the render needs to pop out more and the tag itself is really flat and dark, Kiu though.
Way to dark. Try messing with brightness & contrast The colors are odd, his skin looks kinda green. As the above, the lighting needs work. Alot of work. I'd like to see this fixed, it has potential to be 10x better with little to no work.
The render seems to stick into the background a tad, but I love the background. It looks nice, with the colors and lighting. I'm more so talking about the second version. It stands out much better and makes it all stand out better. You did a pretty good job on it, overall. My only suggestion is to get a better light source. It seems to just jump out of no where, on the first version. However, the second version you seem to have made it much better, as the light actually appears to come off from the top of the tag. The render was a good choice, in this work. You made it blend in well with the background and then the colors actually go with it. Since the effects you used got the point across. Keep it up.