testing the layouts

Following on from the last post about different layout styles, I've actually tried testing them out here with some of my actual illustrations. Now seeing what they look like almost completed, I still retain my opinions from the previous post and find the most attractive one to be the second. Since the images have just been placed over the top of the existing boxes and spaces in these examples, they don't all fit particularly well in to their designated spaces, so I obviously need to tailor each panel to each illustration and it's size/shape when following through with my final outcome.