07-10-2013, 08:38 PM
Hmmm, I just read your explanation of your intentions and I think you might be missing the whole narrative side to your illustration. From your image almost none of your desired narrative comes through. I think what you need to focus on at this point is what are the key aims of your illustration? What do you need to show to get across your idea and intention, without having to explain it. The way to do this most efficiently as Javier mentioned is to thumbnail out multiple ideas and pick the most successful to develop. Nail the most fundamental parts of your illustration in thumbnail form first, because after that it is purely a rendering exercise. The quicker you understand that this is the most efficient workflow to any illustration the better your final product will be, and with less heartache inbetween.