I'm getting better...

Yesterday in my Concept Design class, we used (my favorite program) Adobe Illustrator to create our final pencil sketch of an illustration for an article. Then, we used Adobe InDesign to layout the article and insert our illustration. For anyone who knows how to use these programs, it would have only taken maybe 20-30 minutes at the very most. Then there's me, still struggling with remembering what buttons to push to make it do what I want. I took about 2 1/2 hours to produce these two things: the final drawing in Illustrator and the final layout in InDesign:

Illustrator

layout in InDesign

I thought I did ok, then I looked at what other students did and felt inadequate once again. They had used photos of stuff and traced it in Illustrator. We were allowed to do that, but I wanted to try to "free-hand" (so to speak) my drawing.
The teacher is the one that picked the article and the final drawing. I had four other articles and at least 3-5 drawings to go with each article.
Here is the sketches for the Girl Scout cookie article:

I was the only one to have a cartoon strip. I tried to be serious, but I couldn't! The teacher chose to cut the other girl and set of cookies out of the picture. I would have preferred to keep the comparison.