Posing Test

Here's the quick sketch sheet I did for last week's brief.
It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for the character design, but I feel like I managed to nail it with the design I used on this sheet.

I broke the text up into about 6-7 phrases, but decided that it wold be better to shoot higher instead of lower.
The final pose bugs me a bit, but it's only one pose out of 7, and in context I feel it works in expressing the emotion of the phrase just fine.
With this particular sheet I wanted to try and make the poses tell all of the story without relying on help from facial expressions. I'll add in the faces when I refine the poses, though, so you'll be able to see more of what I thought about while listening to the voice track I used.

UPDATE:

Here's the finalized version of the above set of thumbs.
I went back and changed 2 of the poses and decided that it would be more fun and interesting to draw up the character in at least minor detail while adding the expressions.
Looking at the design now, I love how his face came out.