Funeral for a Magician

That is the theme to a project I'm working on from school, we're meant to be using watercolour and inks which is amazing because they are great to work with.
Now the quality is kind of... well awful because my scanner isn't great and I'm scanning from a large illustration board. I really do need to get a camera for larger stuff.

This one is probably my favourite, this is why I like the way the inks and paint work together, it gives a really nice effect. Now yeah, it is really cliché, but not quite so much as my first idea where there's just a coffin cut in half (get it? ha.) Also this guy kind of reminds me of Uncle Sam.

This one I really like, it as a nice stylized thing happening. However it doesn't so much say "funeral for a magician" as it does "brutal slaughter for a magician".

This is my least favourite hands down though I do like the concept. In case you can't tell it's a wand broken in half and bleeding. Again it's less "funeral" and more "murder" but I'll probably kep going with this concept.

Ech, again, sorry for the quality of the scans.

These sketches are really only experiments so I'm not to worried that the concepts are pretty weak. The class this is for is called "Media Studios" so it's more for being exposed to new mediums and ways of working than it is about creating deep and thought provoking illustrations.