DP - Braver than you believe

I am quite liking the look of the first poster in my set, so I thought it would be a good idea to make the other two similar.

I wanted to get across the idea of being braver than you believe.

My idea was to use another animal character. I thought it might work to have a lion character who looks sad and a thought bubble with a real lion looking brave and majestic.

Unfortunately, this idea didn't really go as planned. I don't like the colouring and I don't think it gets across the point I wanted to make at all. At the moment i'm not totally sure where to go with it now......