Photoshop practise manipulating images

Original image (I did not take this image and is for practice only:

Black and white unsaturated image: 
I like this effect i have achieved and think it resembles the photography of Bernard Pierre Wolff who I have written about earlier on my blog.

Manipulated to seem as if it was pencil drawn:
I like this effect i have achieved however feel that it would be more effective with less going on in the image as the detail makes it seem less like a actual drawn picture. I think this could be an effective technique to use to make my digi-pack stand out artistically as i cannot draw well, and this allows me to use photography to create a drawing. In order to achieve this effect i has to learn how to do it by using a tutorial which is below the image.

We were given a task to recreate an album cover 'Truth' by the band 'The Kabeedies' in order to practice and ensure we knew how to efficiently use the software

This is the original Cover:

This is my recreation of the cover:
I feel i have roughly recreated it accurately however with more time could have fine tuned it to be a lot more resemblance of the original, for example finding the right font was difficult, so as to not spend ages i decided to use something similar instead. I also think the images of the band are to bright in comparison to the original however had problems when trying to correct this as the changes effect all layers beneath it.