If these are your "initial steps," then I'd say your art potential is very promising. I can still remember my initial (and last) foray into fanart when I was in fourth grade -- I was trying to draw Miles Prower the Fox (from Sonic the Hedgehog) and it ended up looking more like Lavos.
And this was before Chrono Trigger came out. From that point on, I knew the visual arts were not in my future.
The two things that stand out as exceptionally well-done to me are Marle's feet and Lucca's glasses.