"Music Practice" - in progress

I've been struggling lately to find my style to create my own comic.  Color or black and white?  More stylized or realistic?  Graphic outlines like Jeff Smith's "Bone" or painterly swaths of color like Daniel Lieske's "Worm World Saga"?  Or somewhere in between?  And if so, where?

In an effort to figure that out, I tried to do a frame of a music recital or music practice at the Academy, and used a scene from House of Flying Daggers as reference.  Here's how it looks so far.

We'll see where this goes.  This is after a few already aborted attempts this weekend.  It's been frustrating and demoralizing at times.  Definitely thought a few times that this will never get anywhere and I'm a naive idiot for even trying, but onward.  No failure is as bad as not trying.