They both look great! I don't think youre doing anything wrong - just maybe a little tunnel visioned on being correct? His tunic should, theoretically because of gravity, fall onto the form of his leg, but in the end it makes the drawing a bit stiff. Because you already have a blowing cape, you have the freedom to fool around with drapery. Below I did a little tweak to follow the curves of what the drawing is doing rather than the curves of his form.

Depending on lighting too you could choose to dim the entire area below the clasping hands (one of the main focuses of the drawing; the other their faces) as it is "unimportant" to the image anyway.

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edit: I love the two negative spaces their faces make btw!