What my book should have been and Character investigation

These are some images of the type of book I had been planning on making, I had these downloaded for a while as reference but I didn't put enough planning in to really examine how they all synch up together. I knew that I'd fall down with the written portion and that I can draw characters so I left it to the back of my head. Without me really noticing this project became way more about investigating the nature of a villainous character in children's books and how to draw them. On that note I've learned a lot that I'll be able to use in the future, particularly as I've never really drawn any villains before but on the making of a product I've done pretty terribly. I didn't fully plan how it would work and I didn't plan covers for the book at the start and then ran out of time to do anything more than the characters that had taken up my attention. I should have done it as a character investigation from the start and found a different setting for them but When the practical project I was working on in the summer was made redundant, I was grasping at straws for something that I could draw. So when Teresa suggested an exquisite corpse I just jumped on that instead of really analysing what I would have time and would enjoy doing.