Bigblah draws animu

This one's a birthday gift for someone who's drawn quite a few awesome pictures for my fellow comrades in Team RTFO (GFF ragnarok online guild), and I thought a picture would be an excellent reciprocation.

Notes:
1. This is my second serious attempt ever at drawing an anime-style character (or any character, even), the first one being eyeballed off a fansub freeze frame. This one's done from scratch, without any reference.
2. It's completely done in mspaint with a mouse, and using only the paintbrush tool. Left click to paint, right click to erase. I'm a masochist.
3. I suck at drawing hands.
4. It looks better when viewed from a distance!



And stop laughing at the fact that I added antennae. You try drawing those in mspaint.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Haha, the right click action for the eraser tool. I never knew it did that.

By the way, here's my aforementioned first attempt:



Much neater here, since I had a reference (Fafal from Scrapped Princess). The character in my first post is an original creation... sort of =p

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I wasn't very happy with how the drawing looked so I did some touching up.

Here's an animated .gif comparing the changes:




So, presenting version 2.

Advice for fellow budding artists: ADD MORE HAIR


Edit: version 3 (hand fixes).

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Not much, actually. I'm currently no good at anatomy and proportions (face is too big, hand is too small, etc). I took a look at your miko picture (the one listed at the very bottom in your thread) and gave up drawing forever.

Then again, at least I can draw silly vehicles. I'll scan some of my earlier pen works (erasing is for wimps!)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?