YT time-lapse (showing off the whole graveyard of initial sketches I discarded):

Little Garden in the background.I went into this hoping to get a blue/green colour scheme to work, since it's something I've been subconciously avoiding for some time. Vivi would work perfectly for this, but had me looking up episodes from literally ten years ago (!!) to get references. I went through a lot of different versions with literally two days where I accomplished nothing, feeling how the deadline was slowly creeping up on me. This happened last week as well, and really does take it's toll. On the other hand I don't want to create something I can't stand behind, so force myself not to slack behind. I spend way too much time fleshing out bad ideas, wasting time, so that's definitely something I'll work on.In retrospect it makes sense but wow the difference in voices/animation in the earlier episodes really struck a nostalgia chord in me. I'd like to draw Nami too because I much prefer how she looked back before the time skips.Now I sleep.