You butchered nothing-- I am totally blown away at how awesome this is! I got myself a white gel pen today (inspired by you and a few other artists here) and was working along on my side of the trade for you, and just popped on to see what FA had to offer, and BOOM! I love the pose and colors they ended up with-- sorry if it was a hassle for you! But, the way you did Abighaile's face is by far the cutest evaaaa, and I've meant to ask you in the past, but do you do fashion illustrations or something along those lines? You've blown be away more than ever before seeing my own characters in your super creative, fun clothing. Abi's shirt and the leg greave-things are too cool for school. THANK YOU!!!! I'm going to be posting up your half tomorrow when I have sunlight to do it by. <3

Oh, you flatter me 0/////0 I actually don't use a white gel pen, I use this really thick water-based ink. Nah, it wasn't all that hard to draw, just Abighaile's legs lol. The hardest part was probably coloring everything since i mostly have colors for my characters, so coloring other peoples' characters get difficult when I have to mix things just right. I'm glad none of the flaws show up in the scan xD

Actually, I don't do any sort of fashion sketches, my characters are the sketches, lol. I like putting cute clothing on them, i was worried that you wouldn't like the fact that I changed her dress, lol

Yeah, for a while I only had the colors to watercolor Abighaile, and so doing gift art and all was really difficult. X3 You did a great job mixing the colors, though. No fashion sketches?! I thought I had you guessed, because really-- the clothing that you come up with is so much fun!

Couldn't you just mix the colors?

Nope. I do want to do something in fashion, though; it's such an interesting industry. I've done one fashion sketch type thing but I'm too much of a perfectionist to just sketch like they do xD Haha, thanks

Well, orange brown and green couldn't really get me far by mixing, but I've gotten many more since. :3 So it's all good!

It really is an interesting industry. :3 It is hard letting go of a drawing that you'd still call a sketch, but it must feel great seeing the ideas come to life, too! And you really do have some fun ideas.

True, true.

Yeah, i haven't got any sewing skills, though...
Totally, just like making an animation or a sculpture.

Aww, thank you~