painting.. sorta

I was inspired by a friend Marco and May Wa to tackle painting again. Its from a photo from www.nationalgeographic.com. Anyways, I'm always down for critiques and comments!
Thanks

sketches

I was watching the special features to Jungle book, and there was bit of advice from wooly wutherman (one of the nine old men ) and he stated that "you gotta care about the story your telling. Your like an oral storyteller, and you gotta make them care about what you care about." I like that. With me personally I tend to draw for the sake of drawing. So Lately I've been focusing on my posing, and their expression and trying to think about what their do'n. I'll post more on teh story later. But for now he's some poes of some characters I've been toying around with.