This is awesome! I love this kind of combining modern cartoon characters with old style imagery. :D

Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

Interesting. No one really thinks much about Gadget's past, though there was a fan-fiction years ago that purported to trace her ancestry from The Great Mouse Detective, to the present. I really do like the attempt you made here. I don't know as much formal art as my friend  Lionus, but I'm familiar enough with American Gothic. For depicting a simple bust shot with a minimal background, the simplicity of it actually enhances it's simplistic, old-time feel. Even her outfit, with only a couple of minor decorative touches, to me, evokes a nostalga tinged past where things were much simpler. To say nothing of the wonderful texture you gave her hair.

Thanks for the detailed and helpful comment, Serath. I'm pretty happy with how the hair turned out myself, which is fairly unusual :)