Firstly, sorry for the poor quality of the scan, but I left it as is because I wanted you to see as much detail as possible.
I did the drawing on the left first. Very light blue pencil, and then I wrecked it with the black ink. See?! That's why I HATE inking stuff! Except on a Cintiq which I am really starting to like after installing a new driver. Them Wacom people are great, what with their products and customer service that actually responds and follows up, they're GRRRREAT!!! But back to the drawing...
I did these both in my sketchbook and when I could see the inking was going south, I decided to redraw the image on the back of the same sheet. So I inked only what I needed, then turned over the page and blue penciled the inked lines then cleaned it up with my favorite purple pencil.
I think it worked out pretty well. I have one problem and my Christine has a different one, so her's first: She doesn't like how the guy leaning against the tree has his feet placed. She says it looks like he's tied to the tree with his feet hanging. Good point, I can see that.
I have a problem with the scale of the people. It looks to me that if they all stood side by side, the tree people would be much bigger. I think if I'd tapered the tree more in the middle, and/or added more ground detail to suggest more relief in the landscape, and/or drawn the ground people slightly bigger, everyone would have looked more in the same scale.