Yay, no dithering!
   I like it so far. I think if anything needs touching up, it would probably be her left arm. A lot of the lady's body parts show form, or some form of shading. However the upper part of her left arm seems to be flatly shaded, as if the light source is hitting it dead on. Under normal circumstances, this would be fine, however directly next to her left arm, is a shadowed boob, leading me to believe that the arm is slightly behind them berbs'. So I would experiment a little, and try shading the upper left arm a little more with the dark purple hue you've chosen.
   Also, the cane seems to blend in a little as it reaches the helm of dress. Maybe trying a little black outline to help define it might help it be a smidge more noticable. I would also try the sprite without the black outline located underneath her chin. I know your trying to show a harsh black line to separate her chin from the cloth, but for me at least, it seems to be out of place...I could be wrong though.
   Still though, I really like the character. And I could tell it was Stoner's lines before I even read the rest of the post.

Feature get!

Psst! Ptoing, your Germish' is showing..

By the way Mirre, I really like how far you've come with the piece. It was great then, and looks even better now. My only crit back then was the whole non-existant nose, and the way the fins/flippers/tail were shaded. They look much better now. I like the nip-slip, adds some reality to the piece, as well as the reflection and the ripples. My only hindrence is towards the way the sky is currently dithered. I think with the style you got going here, I would have preferred a flat shaded sky...Great job..

Ummm, before I go on I just want to ask one thing: Whats the difference between these two options?
1. Only edit someone else's work if they do not object.
2. Edit only with the permission of the author.
 

   By any choice, I've never really respected any person who edits other people's works. As in, most people in the fighting game world love to draw over previously made Capcom, and SNK sprites for extremely dull and uninspiring designs, or to the point where they look just plain wierd. Ditto this in with the Sonic edits, and Megaman edits as well. JUST STOPP, PEOPLE!! It's 'oogly. Now with editing anothers piece in a forum, I definitely do believe in. However, I don't think that everytime someone submits something, everyone should hop on it and edit everything to their liking, confusing the artist's original idea by making him decide who's style he must choose to suit the audience. In fact, that irks the hell out of me.
   Call me stubborn, call me stupid, but I just believe that above all, an artist's sharpest sense should come from his/her ears, not their eyes. In other words, listening to response and understanding why and where someone is critiquing certain parts of  a work is vital in understanding your audience, and how to better make your art speak to them. Of course, no real artist should ever forget that just like his/her fingerprint, their artistic style is one in a gazillion(what?...I counted elephants also...Elephants can paint too, ya know...) Despite this, I still believe that it is better to only edit a piece if the original artist who posted the work hasn't gotten it down yet, or if he requests an edit for a better understanding.(yes, yes, hypocrite is my middle name...)

Not much of a gamer. Used to be when I was younger. I haven't gamed it up in about a year. It's pretty sad too, mainly cause I'm only 20. I feel like my innocence has been stolen from me by adulthood, and my apathy has been growing immensely on all ends. Oh well. If I do play, I just hook up my dreamcast system, and put in my NES and SNES roms and have a go at some old school games. (Mega man, Chrono Trigger, and I still haven't beat Super Ghouls and Ghosts. Just an example of how pathetic I am at video games...) I don't know why, it's just these new games coming out in the market just turn me off completely. I look at them and think, "What the hell is everyone so hyped up about? The graphics on X console seem to be no different than it's older counterpart. That and it's the SAME F***ING CONCEPT AS 50 OTHER GAMES IN IT'S GENRE..." I still read up on gaming magazines just to see if anything new and amazing is coming out to really make me buy some $300-500 priced game console. None at the moment...I put no interest in the poll by the way(screw the voter anonymous crap)