I agree with all your critiques! The main problem was I had a very short amount of time to get it done, today was my Thanksgiving and Ohio State played earlier and there is no option to miss OSU play, especially The Game. This was the first time I did an all watercolor "face", and basically I didn't want to mess around with it too much as I was afraid something might go horribly wrong and ruin the whole thing lol I did also want to adjust the sword to make it so it was at a different angle (like I did the axe) so you could see more of it, but then I knew I'd have to change the hand position and then that would change the arm angle and so I went with the "quick" route and kept it the same as the source photo; but if I had the time I would have done all you suggested!