Jack & the Beanstalk - Composition 2 Progression

As previously posted, I'm currently working on the second of two compositions for "Jack & the Beanstalk" for my Visual Elements of Story class at AAU.  Here's what I had last night:

Today in class, we got to work on the project, so here was about 4 hours of additional work (redid the foreground leaves, started on the characters):

Then my teacher, the brilliant Nicolas Villarreal, made a few [amazing] modifications:

So now I have a ton of clean-up work to do.  But, it's going to look SOOO much better now, once it's finished.  This is definitely why I'm paying the big bucks to go to school. :^)