#1- leaning left is
Gives you a clean trunk line with what seems to have the best movement. Wire growth down, bring around from the front perhaps on the lower section if it will make it, if not don't worry you can always graft later... Shorten it a bit and start a Shari down the trunk, spiraling a bit to add interest and create the illusion of movement in the straight sections of trunk.
#2- leaning forward or left...
On this tree no matter what you do, remove the large straight trunk. Make a minute of it and any low branches, get a tangled little ball of twiggy deadwood right there where the other trunk wiggles off, but that interesting wiggle is what you want to keep and build your tree around.
Rule of thumb on most any tree- leaning back is NOT usually the right answer... Think of how we look at trees in nature- from below! This gives the illusion of more dramatic taper from bottom to top because of perspective and the same optical "illusions" also make the tree feel as though it is leaning towards you. Work with that in mind when looking at a tree and thinking to yourself "where do I want to go here".... The "rules" people speak of are not rules, they are design principals disguised as rules. Sometimes understanding the why better helps us understand the need to adapt a technique or implement something we have heard before But sort of ignored or one of those things that just never gelled or seemed important.
We are not really styling Bonsai to look exactly like trees actually look in nature, we are making a stylized artistic rendering of what trees look like to us, right? so, what is exaggerated on trees you see? What do you find as the most interesting potential focal point of these trees, what do you like about them? We could all take these trees and style them and get something different, you should do what you like to them, and as people for ideas on refinement once you have laid out your base...
Good luck man, looks like both have potential!
