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The first mistake was "trying to finish your drawing before you started it," as Reggie, my drawing mentor always liked to say. You're drawing details before you have the general masses of the figure sketched out; I can tell by the ghost lines that you spent more time getting the shape of an each individual armor piece looking right than getting the entire figure in proportion.
Another way to copy something to scale and proportionally is to print out the picture, divide the picture using a grid (measure the aspect ratio, divide each side so you get square units on your grid) and then copy what's in each square on your paper to scale. It's a bit of a cheat when drawing a figure from reference, but when drawing a scene from reference (as in observing a printed or displayed 2 dimensional image) it can be essential. I use this method to scale up small sketches to larger formats.
[Edited on 08.02.2010 2:49 PM PDT]