Redraw March 2013

I've been pretty hiatus-y for a while now, but I did this to prove that I haven't been doing nothing!
Been trying hard lately to brush up on... well, art everything. Still have a longgg way to go but I think I've improved since last November~
So I decided to do a redraw of an older piece that I did
Here's the original:

I also made a side by side comparison with the draw this again meme It's pretty cool to see them next to each other~
To be honest, I really wanted to change the colour scheme and the background and all these colour things cause there was a looot of pink (not that I have a problem with pink lol) but to stick to the integrity of the original piece, I kept pretty much the same colours.
So this is a approx. 5 month improvement. Onwards to 2013!

(On a side note, if anyone ever wants a critique or just to talk or something or whatever, please don't hesitate to note me! School is allllmost over so I'm going to be a lot more active in the next few months!)