Proverb Illustration

Uploaded my final piece for one of my modules at university, an illustrated proverb, "There are 40 types of lunacy but only one type of common sense".
I was really pleased how it came out - I used a mixture of styles and techniques - each one representing a feel of lunacy, or of common sense.
For the figure I used several clothing references from a popular sensible clothes catalogue, then created the sweet cartoon character with the blonde curly hair out of my imagination. I used bright and "wooly" looking colours, to convey a feeling of wrapping up warm and sensibly. I also used a classical umbrella, shielding her from the background and the lunacy. As you can see around the umbrella is the lunacy themed area, and inside it is calmer and blue.
For the lunacy area, I used reds and blacks, and drew out the big red moon in Photoshop. I also took photographs of myself making a sinister hand, covered in red paint, and scanned in papers I had created with splats and smears of red "blood". This added the rough, horror-filled feeling to the background.
The text was created using a normal font on a seperate layer, and then creating another layer over the top and drawing over it, using the font as a guide to keeping the letters even and straight, but freehanding a completely different feel to the letters, with the dripping, smeary effect. Then I deleted the reference font, leaving my own hand-written font.

The only critique for this piece, which I noticed much too late, was her hat being in front of the umbrella, instead of inside, and perhaps I could've drawn some "lunacy" images to hover menacingly around the figure in the lunacy area.