So, after the thumbnails I made yesterday, I decided that, of COURSE my favorite composition was the one that was going to give me the most trouble -- the high angle shot looking down at the street.
So this morning, I made two more thumbnails, with some hopefully better perspective.
However.
After thinking about it and looking the images over, I have decided that, though I really like that composition, the focus isn't as much in the right place. This is a story about a character that is leaving someone they cared about behind to live a new life and the story is told from a first-person perspective. So, despite the fact that the new images are very emotionally effective, I feel that the image that actually fits what I'm trying to say best is the first one, which puts the narrator way up in the foreground, larger and more present than the two in their brightly lit cocoon, unaware of his presence.
And this is how an illustrator makes decisions. By hemming and hawing and crossing her fingers that she isn't choosing totally the wrong thing.