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> So I couldn't help but notice you were branching out a bit from your normal editing
yes, I did but honestly, calling me a drawfag would be a huge mistake because...

> Lovebat looks especially less like an edit and more like an outright improved drawing. 
despite requiring a drawing process, it serves more as a sophisticated edit of your original drawing. I struggle a lot at drawing something from a blank paper because I have a difficult time at imagining the dimensions. So I still see myself as an imitator, you can see that the eye is traced in the same way that Lovebat does in the post for /endpone/´s rules. 

> you did use a program to make it yourself, correct?
that picture was edited with the help of two programs (Photos from Windows 10 and Photoscape). I redrew it and added the magenta background with Sketchbook. I used several pictures of reference in order to pick the exact numbers for the colors of each part

> some of those elements look quite good. Especially the mouth and eyes and I overall like it a lot.
well, one of the main intentions with the story and this picture was to impress the original author of it. Having accomplished this, I don´t need to convince anyone else because after all, this was simply made with /endpone/ in mind.