I'm ready for round 2... and you?

Commission for . This girl is her OC Raiko:

"Raiko Higure, she's a tough girl and can kick some ass! But she's also a lot of fun, out-going, spunky. She's honest but doesn't always know how to encourage or give advice. Typically she'll just say what's on her mind."

I had a lot of fun drawing this character. Not so much at first I can tell, because on the early steps I found some serious problems on it, with the sketch, the pose, or... well, to be honest I still don't know where the problems were but I'm sure that there was something on it that bothered me a lot, and when I say A LOT I truly mean it XD. Seriously, I almost quit and tried to start it again from scratch... But thanks to the support and words of encouragement of some great people I understood that the best thing I could do was to keep working on this. After that not so good beginning everything turned to the opposite direction and working on the coloring was really enjoyable. Waaaahh...! All I can say is that I'm really proud of my coloring here
Okay, okay, so much talk. In the end all I want to say is that I hope that you enjoy seeing this as much as I enjoyed making it ^^

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Art by me

Done in Paint Tool SAI. Comments and critiques are more than welcome and very appreciated