Lounging - Dynamic Pose Practice 1

This picture was a test in several things. Every aspect of this drawing I went about a bit differently than I normally do.

1.) Dynamic Pose/Bones
This was the whole reason I made the picture in the first place. I wanted to really test out dynamic poses since I noticed that, really, I don't do them ever. All I've done, really, is draw people standing around without actually doing anything short of raising their arms a bit. I decided to mend that. I also decided that, while doing dynamic poses, I should give that whole "draw primitive shapes and do a basic skeleton before drawing the actual picture" thing a shot. I don't do that, the results looked funky all three times I did it before, but I figured I should try again, and this time it turned out fairly well.
How did these work out? I'll do more creative angles and shit in newer pictures as I get used to this.

2.) Coloring
The coloring isn't really all that new in technique, it's just more experimentation in color. I set the colors to fit the yellow light that's inexplicably in the picture and tried to have the color of the shadows adjusted accordingly. I went for a very natural feel to the colors, where they seemed like they actually fit the environment.
How'd that turn out? I still need to work on colors and shit.

3.) Shading
I don't really shade that much in my pictures, but I figured I'd give it a shot here because I wanted to try to do it better than usual.
I noticed I've always had a very stupid way of doing shadows:
Every appendage or every little thing is in it's own world where the shadow is on the right/left side of each object and the distance is static.
I was doing this and I smacked myself in the head and thought "What the fuck are you doing?" Every appendage was in it's own world, everything was in the world in the picture. The whole body is affected as a whole by the light, and is affected by the environment and affects the environment.
As obvious as this may sound, I didn't think about it like that until now. I don't know why I didn't figure that out sooner.
Also, on another note, I tried to do shadows thinking of how the light would reach the body in this case. That has to do with the above.
Are the shadows looking alright? They need lots of work, but it's a better attempt at shading than this lame ass piece of tripe that I hated moments after drawing. Also, the shadows are probably a bit off because I didn't think to add the light until the very end.

4.) Background
That shit looks fancy, doesn't it? Hells yeah. I like the way it turned out.
The shadows on the background I didn't care about and also the character doesn't fit in with the background so well I should work on that.


So, anyway, I spent a good couple of hours of my day working on this.
I'm quite pleased with the result. I'll hate it in a week, though.