I see what sort of pose you were going for, but to be honest it could use a few improvements.
Firstly, I would recommend increasing the size of the person in comparison with the image.
Secondly, I would recommend changing the character’s angle, or at least the angle of the camera, so that way we can get a better view of that pose, or at least a tiny bit of his face.
Adding a few extra things in the background could also help, but overall for a first GFX design, it looks way better than my first attempt. Anyhow, best of luck creating future GFX!
Yeah right when I finished I realized I totally butchered the pose lol.
I think that it looks very nice, one thing that I might recommend is tilting the head a bit so that he doesn’t look so stiff.
I can see the limitation that you’re having since you’re not using any rigs but so far. this is a great start ngl!