Let's show you some art.

So first off, I'm going to show you what I did a little over a year ago:

...A lot changes in a year. But that being said, this is an excellent drawing. (I don't know why I called it a sketch; it was clearly polished enough to be called a drawing.) Other than the head being too small, and her having a skirt (the skirt's fine, it's just that I don't think it suits her), and a little bit of the details on her arms and chest, it's a gorgeous drawing. It also took me ages to make, with a bundleload of references.
Though I never finished the digital drawing in question, I turned the above into this:

...Not perfect, but still pretty cool.
Now take a look at what my sketch (not drawing, sketch) is, done in the car without references but having been inspired by the above. It's not much:

...Not yet much, anyway. You'll note the tons of notes made on it. I can't fix the long next without redrawing the entire face, just like in the original drawing how I couldn't fix the head being small without redrawing the entire thing (a change not worth it, when in the digital world, a simple edit fixes the problem), but most of the problems are things that I know that, with references, I can easily fix. It looks worse to the eye now, but when I put the same amount of time into this one as I did the original (that must have taken me five hours; my sketch took less than one), you're going to be blown away by the renovation.

I'm posting it now because I'm about to dig into my edits. By the time I'm done, you'll have sworn it was an entirely different drawing that I did, in spite of it being the same one.
*cracks wrists*

This will be fun.