I'm a business owner. I always wanted to be an artist but ended up somewhere else. Now I do freelance illustration in my free time and hope to one day sell my business and do illustration full time. That's the dream anyway.
Just listened to this. Need to listen to it again. I need to get the roadblocks out of my way. I have 10 unfinished dummy books....I've never finished one. I get bored half way through and never finish. I'm a great starter but can't get across the finish line.
I think Will may be in a pickle here. I see everyone saying it's clearly a parody....Um...nope...I don't think so Marvel has their own baby characters already and they make money off of them. I think Will was fine before the book became too successful....Now Disney has taken notice. 
@abbottcartoons Not sure what program you are using but to paint in the occlusion (Darkest part of image where no light gets in) Use a multiply layer on top of the image. Use a hard edged brush. Pick a very dark red color almost black. Now paint along the edge of the crack the hard edged brush will give a nice crisp line right where the crack is. Now take a soft eraser at a low opacity. Start at the outside edge and erase back towards the crack until just a sliver of the original stroke is left right at the crack. The soft edged eraser will leave a small bit of the original dark stroke behind making a soft gradient up to the hard edge.
If the black is a little too dark lower the opacity of the layer until it looks right. Hope this will help a little.
Here's a link to the guy I learned this from and the process in practice :http://theartcenter.blogspot.com/2010/03/sam-nielson-painting-process.html
Thank you for the comments. Very helpful. Took some of your advice. Got rid of some of the text on the first page, changed the character pose on page one, and changed the whole character for a more modern outfit. I can see the proportion problems I'm having with the character. Going to iron those out in the next pass. I've never been able to draw a character on model well. Been trying for years....but I'm still working on it. All comments and crits welcomed thanks. 
Starting a new dummy book. Here's the first rough spread. All comments and crits welcomed. Thanks. 
I really like the third option all the white and the bee's little shadow on the bottom.
Line work and composition look great. Love all the details you've stuck in.
@Deniseprado Will Terry's texture painting class will probably help you level up. The children's book and composition classes are good choices as well.