Branding Feedback

I recently received some feedback on my trials for my branding ideas. The feedback as a whole seemed to be positive and has given me a few ideas on how to improve my brand as a whole. I think I am going to stick with a black, green and white colour scheme and use a symbolic image for my magazine advert.

Here are a few comments that people made on my work:

"Both designs look really good with what you have put together so far, some ideas could be to add a painted black "X" on the white background on the ben design  and maybe putting a polaroid affect to the fire image on other one."  

"both pieces of work are good! the one with the fire is the better one in my opinion as it stands out and draws more attention to it. good use of the colour scheme on the black background. 

well done. (p.s. im no artist i only do sport haha)"  

"in the photo with ben you should define his jawline a bit more and make sure parts of his face dont blend in with the white background"