So when is too much too much?

Hey there sports fans, Alan here with the latest:

So the question is when is too much and this is in reference to doing artwork.

Now many people would say that doing artwork there can never be too much of one thing or another but when you’re telling a story when do you draw the line out saying all right enough is enough let’s move onto the next chapter?

Recently I had asked myself that question as I was working on a two-page spread as Richard Parker follows up the last of these sailors who had left him to die in the depths of the sea. I had to ask myself that question and really when do you say OK enough you know I have had to think about that numerous times on this particular project because there are no words somethings are not clearly defined in the visual images makes me wonder how the Egyptians with all Of their pictograms and how they could tell a story one way or the other and you looked at them but of course I’m not an Egyptian and I don’t think most people can read those kinds of picograms from ancient Egypt so I have to come up with something that’s a little more clearly defined. When I read Lynd Ward’s work on "God's Man", "Madman's Drum", "Wild Pilgrimage", "Prelude to a Million Years", "Song Without Words", and "Vertigo". I often asked myself how did he know when to stop doing work to fill in the gaps for a person to make up their mind when reading his work. The transitions from one part of the story to the next action?

I feel confronted by this.

It's not just enough to evoke an emotion within a viewer, you as an artist have to take steps in placing yourself as empathetically as much as you can is this what a reader will see and understand or will they say to themselves “Wow, there is a lot of highly detailed artwork here but the story itself didn’t make any sense to me.”