I will admit that this honestly took me longer than it should have. I spend a lot of time just fooling around with colours. It makes me glad I work digitally so I can go back and re-think what colours I want as I'd end up forever re-painting things if I could paint traditionally. I'm not horrible at it, but on a professional level, I'm not that great, but anyway ... back to the illustration. It's simple and nice and I'm not sure which one I like better. The pen lines somehow end up flattening the image again and there's a certain "human" feel to it 'cause the pen strokes. I might try going back to this for some small spot-type illustrations to play around.