So I now fully understand the artist's pain of "every little thing looks wrong and needs to be burned and thrown out."
It took me, like, a MONTH of half-hour bits and chunks, though also a chunk of it was me teaching myself tricks in Gimp.
Maybe 5 years from now I'll have another thing done!

Also, before anyone says anything, I could hardly even call this "my style," it's my having taken about 20 references, assembled, and free-hand-traced and tweaked. But it did help me learn some actual stuff.