Ren Hero Sketches

I started with just fleshing out the main character, he's nameless for right now, but I figured that might help me with creating everything else. 

He's a blacksmith, his parents were slaves though he's a free man. 

There's gonna be a few other characters: the bad guy (the blacksmith who he trains under), a lady he's known in childhood (potential love interest or something), and his mentor figure (a plague doctor). So I want to try to design environments for each of them and right now I've just been drawing trying to get the feel of things.

I want to redo each of the top tumbnails of environments to see if I can really push my focal points and stuff.