Editorial

I am finding making this figure difficult, I actually think I'm trying to hard and I need to let him go. In all my research and favourite Illustrators its the free-ness of the figure I admire, the simplicity and the creative shapes, so I don't know why I cant accept that in my own work. 
My guy so far :

 

I'm starting to have a soft spot for him now, my Mr.Benn look alike.