JyonnyNovice - from Novice to Master!

[JyonnyNovice]

Trying to push myself to do an illustration, I stick too much to little sketches and quick things. So far this has been a real challenge, got really miserable after the first drawing, didn't know what to do, then got happier again after the next set of thumbnails.

Initial thumbnail from last week:



Tried to make a straight drawing from it, wasn't happy with it:



More thumbnails without much clue about direction:



Back to the other drawing, fiddled in photoshop to see if I could find a way to make it work:



More thumbnails, was happy with the last two:



Did a bit bigger 'thumbnail' to see what kind of details I could add to make it look more lived in (also practised inking since I'm a bit rusty).




So I'm gonna go with this kind of composition I think. Need to do a few more thumbnails to nail down totally where everything is going to go - if anyone has any advice / comments / criticisms about this please tell me!