saying goodbye to mario v.2

PLEASE GIVE COMMENTS AND CRITIQUE, PLEASE!I RARELY GET ACTUAL COMMENTS i have only recently learned how to use photoshop to any degree, so i went back on this picture that i did when i knew nothing about it (hence this being v. 2 and u can find the older version in my gallery) and i need to know how to make it better.....or at least have people say they saw it. it's vital for me to know because i plan to start a career in comicing and designing for video games. this is my first step :)

p.s. for the very few people who already saw this v.2, the reason why i've posted again cuz my design teacher told me to tweak a couple things to make it perfect....at least in her opinion, which is almost always perfect lol.