Well Steve, to participate on this week's challenge the background needed to be transparent, felt that was important that the preview followed the rules too and also that it did not stray away from the piece too much. But i love the background the original had. I'll reupload somewhere else (maybe in my long dead tumblr). About her bikini i did this before: wrote a NSFW tag and showed the nsfw part on the preview (lol), so i put a very clear bikini-like-4kids-censor-thing to not make the same mistake. I know you just said that you felt bad, and im assuming that these are probably the reasons. Got it right?

Hapiel, thanks man! Felt like i should almost overhaul it completly because of the pain it was to re-think the colors, but it was impossible to start over time-wise (life schedule thingy), so went if more details on the wings, which were pretty bland and rushed to be sincere. Im not claming perfection, but it was nice to "re-do" it.
 

I saw this picture on the frontpage and felt bad knowing that it had been uploaded as a replacement for the last picture. But the new palette looks like a definite improvement, the colours are more clearly distinct from one another and there's some fun shifting in hue from blue to almost-red (or maybe that's the impression I get since the latter colours are more desaturated and so 'appear' as almost-red by design). I'm thankful you didn't feel too discouraged and that you kept working at the picture.

Yay, she's back! And you've even improved it! :D