Duel cats

First off I love this piece. It's in my faves. I would hang this on my wall. So I was surprised to find this piece was looking for a critique.

I find the hand holding the gun to be confusing as I'm having a hard time telling what is going on with the fingers. Some stronger shadows may be needed to make it more clear. I would slightly reduce the size of the background cat with the gun and move the gun up. It's partially because I don't like where the hero's hat cuts across the iris of that cat. I would try to keep that right most eye from being cropped out though.

The rendered cat eyes aren't quite working for me. I messed around in photoshop and what really made that had pop as the focal point for me was using a flat yellow for the eyes and really darkening the area around the eyes and the underside of the hat.

Sweet piece though. Hope you had a happy birthday doing it.