No amount of speed lines can save you now (CE)

Contest Entry for Whisperspirit, two of her FCs, Diren and Aspen. Contest journal: fav.me/d7w8nn7
...Speed lines, or squiggly grass! Ya gotta love the squiggly grass. There's a fine line between making grass look realistic and just scribbling all over the paper (I'm obviously in the latter category..).
Aside from that, I was going for a sort of comic book/noir look with this one, which came out kinda strange with all that.. grass. :/ Everyone get lost in the grass..
Other things I struggled with include: cloth folds, PERSPECTIVE!, character accuracy, and drawing a decent tree. Without leaves.
Speaking of character accuracy... I'm aware, Whisperspirit, that Aspen wears a scarf, not a cape, but I became aware of that a little too late.