Before and After Meme.2

I used to be very proud of the first one up there, and to be honest while I have definitely changed stylistically I certainly don't have an issue with that first one. I was very new to both anime and drawing at the time and for really a first attempt it holds up decently. The second one I just finished today and I am actually less proud of it than the first, but I'm to the point where I'm not terribly fond of most new things I do, however, I would like to think I have improved on a technical and visual level for the most part, though I think the emotion in the first one still comes across more poignantly, then again maybe that's the issue with a redo!

Anyway, hopefully you like to look at it and the full version of the after can be seen in my gallery here: [link]

The original meme is here: [link]

...That was a huge run-on sentence up there, sorry folks.