Japanese Yew Styling Help

[p_anova]

Hey all. Just left the DC Bonsai Festival (cold and windy) and obviously saw the amazing trees on display and felt inspired. Came home and started pondering possible fronts/orientation for my japanese yew. It is still in original soil and growing super healthy! Any and all opinions are welcome as I find that all my trees are starting to look the same.

 

[p_anova]

I cleaned some of the Spring foliage to try and define the pads on this guy and after much deliberation, I decided on this as the front. Anyone know if this species takes a long time to thicken? It has been left to grow for 2 years. I eventually want to cut off the bottom branch but the trunk is still to thin. It in nursery soil but elected not to repot to develop the branches and trunk more. Pay no attention to ugly white pine on the right.