Wonderful conclusion, Alel! 🙂
Your drawings aren't as bad as you may feel. I think the characters definitely have spirit. Also style is something very personal, everyone has their own style. You can of course copy others' styles (I sometimes do this when I draw others' characters) but your own style is what you should be proud of.
Improvement is something that comes along the way. It's "doing" on one side and a bit of "experimenting" and/or "study" on the other side. Study sounds too serious maybe, it can be as simple as looking at how others draw figures, watching an instruction video on youtube or reading a small 'how-to' article you googled (e.g. how to draw hands). Little things can give you valuable tips and even though they may not make you excellent right away, they help steering you in a direction.
My king does really have a male (the others are female) so there's going to be something for the /M folk to enjoy too. And I think I made him look quite masculine too (maybe a little more than usual in build). I am very excited about the colours I am going to use on this one because I do have something pretty special in mind in that regard too. Each piece also has its own character and tickle agent. Anyway, I'll create my own thread for this later, probably tomorrow, and link to this one in it. 🙂 Thanks again for the permission to make use of this wonderful idea! You did a really good job on it yourself too!