Struggling...Please Help Me!

Ok soooo I've decided to change my concentration. I was feeling boxed in by the boxed in idea, so to speak...and now I'm in that oh-crap stage of needing to decide on what to do for both my scholastic and my AP concentration.

pleasepleaseplease help me!

Where I was going with the boxed in thing...

Where I think I might be going for scholastic...

 
 

The piece I just started that has a bit of a boxed thing going on but I could also play with the clothes and everything to make it more about shapes and patterns...

So the first upper left piece is what I made for the last critique: boxed in by gender role. I'm into the idea of mixing drawn line with painted texture...but I want to change my subject matter to something else (probably some variation on portraiture, or should I?). The second one is what I did last year, and I think I might expand on the shape idea for Scholastic because I can use some old stuff. The last one is my current strugs piece...

If you can, can you help me figure out the following issues?
1. Stylistically for my AP concentration, should I go more in the direction of the first or second piece?
2. How could I make my AP concentration work with portraits but not juust portraits (I'm thinking..."Why so Serious" like juxtaposed happy and sad things--angry while holding a banana, something like that...or just straight up portraiture with a focus on color or something)
3. Should  make the third piece for my scholastic or for my AP concentration?

Thank you so much guys, thanks for everything! Please feel free to tear stuff apart and be honest/harsh/kindaniceifyou'refeelingit.