okay.. here we go.. so I'm back to pixel art. although noone probably remembers me. used to go by the nick "zeron" when I was lurking this board ages ago.
glad to see it's back up! totally forgot about pixel art when pixelation went down.
anyway, what I used to do you see as my avatar so this was quite a challenge for me. thanks a lot arachne for posting your lineart. helped me out a lot.
this took me all day in school (approx. 5 hours):

I don't think I really nailed the style but I'm quite pleased that I was able to pull something like this off.