Shane, for sure you are heroic making yourself the model! At least you don't have to face a mad at you family member to get then to pose once more!
Have you done any retouch to the picture?
I'd like more space around you. I don't, as yet, get confort from the cut through your forehead. In some other composition perhaps, but this is just one opinion and there are many more people to comment. I looked at this in B&W and I feel that's another place to examine your photograph for possiblities. I'd then then close the aperture to get increased DOF so that arm hair, moustache and head hair are drawn well. Since this is an exploration and not for a partucular client or editorial layout, I'd shoot wider so as to be able to work on composition.
Otherwise, for this in rich color, more of you and a generous black b.g. might do very well.
Now if we are going to be framing the subject tight, then make the final crop assymetric if possible and unique. Image # 3 cropping off the right side after the junction of the shoulder with the sleeve, stengthens the picture. Although I may shoot wider, if it's going to be tight, then get rid of what's not needed. So that's 1/8" frpm the left side and 1/2" from the right side.
Either way, cropped close or the subject with a generous background, you are on a good track. You can ignore the complaints of your model!
Asher